Fed up with industrial, processed puff pastry sheets? Making your homemade puff pastry requires a bit of practice, but isn’t so difficult. Follow these simple steps to have your dough ready for making crunchy appetizers or delicious tarts! Ingredient list for the puff pastry For approx. 1lb (500g) of puff pastry: 1/2 lb (250g) white flour (T45) 1 teaspoon(5g) [...]
I didn’t invent this homemade pizza recipe. It’s a very easy healthy pizza recipe that was on the menu at “La Grande Pizza” in Toulouse, France, when I was on vacation in summer 2006. As it’s been awhile since I visited, I do not know if this pizza is still on the menu and even if this pizzeria [...]
Different ways to cut potatoes At first, peel the potato with a vegetable peeler then rinse it thoroughly under fresh water. That is the basic preamble to any cutting, slicing of carving work on potatoes (and any other vegetable as well). Note that some quality or species of potatoes don’t require to be peeled: when making roasted potato wedges for [...]
Here is a subtle variation around the classic pumpkin soup in video. Ingredient list for the pumpkin soup 1 quarter of a pumpkin A chicken cube stock (or 2 pints of your homemade chicken stock) 2 tbsp potato starch or cornstarch diluted in 1/2 glass of water 3 1/3 ounces (100g) butter Salt and pepper 5 tbsp liquid cream [...]
Seriously, you won’t believe how easy it is to make your own homemade pizza dough. When you prepare your own pizza dough, you have the option of using much better ingredients than the ones used at a pizza shop, and that makes a huge difference. When making pizza, there is still the challenge in shaping the dough. But once [...]
Vegetable stock is one of the basics of cooking, it is simple to do and it’s an essential component to make soups, cooking pasta or plays the role of the wetting element for pilaf rice or risotto. It’s almost too simple: just throw everything in a pot and go do something else. Preparation and cooking take less than an hour, you can run up to one hour and half.
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