Pear tart turned out well. The pears oxidized a little despite the lemon juice used to thwart it and I over-poached them a bit. However we all loved it. I’ll do it with different fruit next time.
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Those look amazing!
And she’s not far from me at all!
Traditional cookie plate: From top left: honigkuchen plain, honigkuchen lemon iced, linzer cookies, nussecken, coconut rochers in the middle. Tomorrow there will be old school Christmas cake and a steamed pudding. Happy Christmas!
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Nice to know someone out there in North America is steaming puddings for Christmas. (My mother started doing a steamed fig pudding — from Craig Claiborne’s 1961 NY Times Cookbook — before I was born.)
Tart looks great!
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This is really beautiful.
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Final bake of the pastis gascon. I loaded up the phyllo this time, and buttered more aggressively.
Note to self: be sure to bake in the bottom third of the oven.
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Now that’s a show stopper!
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Coincidentally, yesterday the NYT wanted to show me a video about petit gascon.
Yeah, I saw that recipe less than an hour after I stumbled upon the Ottolenghi version. Figured it must’ve been a sign.
bookmarking those thumbprints, mostly for the key lime curd.
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Best laid plans and all that … ended up with three cookies (snickerdoodles, peanut butter, gingersnaps), oatmeal/jam bars (filling of strawberry and cranberry), and buckeye bars. Have the ingredients for the other things I was planning on making but ran out of steam.
Several mishaps (do we have a holiday food mishap thread?), per usual.
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You’ve certainly accomplished more than I have in terms of baking!
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Xmas day breakfast - we usually do overnight French toast but I saw this much simpler recipe, and we threw it together in between present opening. We loved it. Forgot the vanilla, oops.
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It’s so beautiful. I’m not big on apple desserts but I think you’ve convinced me to try this.
Watch the video is my advice !
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I keep them in the freezer. In an air tight container, in a single layer with parchment paper in between.
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Looks very impressive to me!
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Cacio e pepe potatoes anna for tonight’s dinner. Served with roasted turkey breast, mushrooms, green beans, gravy and salad. A very simple recipe to put together from Smitten Kitchen Every Day. Will post dessert later.
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