Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

I don't know why we only use puff pastry around the holidays. It's such an easy and wonderful thing. Throw a square on top of a pot pie, and now it's elegant. Wrap it around a little sausage and ...

Though I like to bake, I don’t consider myself a “serious baker.” Sure, I make my own pie crust and can bake a pretty decent loaf of bread, but one thing I have wanted to mess with is puff pastry. All ...

Making puff pastry the traditional way is slower than the rough puff method, but the reward is unmistakable. These are the kinds of flaky layers that shatter delicately when baked, the kind bakers ...

Whether serving as a crisp, buttery platform for seasonal fruit or a flaky wrapping for salmon fillet, puff pastry makes everything seem a little more elegant. With the holiday season nearly here and ...