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Mini Chicken Pot Pies
Chicken pot pie is comfort in its most dependable form: warm, creamy, deeply savory, and nostalgic. These mini chicken pot pies lean into what we all secretly love most—the crust. You get more flaky layers per serving, easier assembly, and a presentation that feels special without being fussy. Cozy, practical, and unapologetically indulgent. Why You’ll…
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Pie Crust Using a Food Processor
I’ll admit it: pie crust used to intimidate me. All you ever hear is that everything must be COLD, you must barely touch it, and if you roll it one millimeter too far, you’ve somehow ruined everything forever. I felt paralyzed before I even started—afraid to warm the butter, afraid to overwork the dough, afraid…
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Romanesco Recipe
Romanesco looks like it wandered out of a winter fairy tale—lime green, spiraled, a living fractal. Somewhere between broccoli and cauliflower in flavor, it has a nuttiness that deepens when roasted and a structure that rewards high heat. The first time I cooked Romanesco, it came out darker than I expected. Not burnt—intentionally bronzed. The…
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Cooking from scratch can seem like a tedious task. My goal is to show you that cooking from scratch doesn’t have to make you want to tear your hair out.
With a little planning and execution, you can have extensive meals created in the same time it would take you to wait for a pizza to be delivered.
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