May 26, 2009
Easy Olive Oil Tart Crust
As much as I love a good short crust pastry and as simple as it is to make (really, it is, try it sometime), I have recently become enamored with another way to make savory tart crusts, one that relies on whole wheat flour and olive oil. This dough is even easier to live with: it comes together by hand in minutes, calls for pantry ingredients I ...
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February 3, 2009
Homemade Vanilla Extract
The idea of a DIY vanilla extract has been floating around the food blog world for a little while. When I first read about the process, the instructions seemed so fastidious that I shrugged and clicked away. (This is, in passing, one of the challenges the recipe writer faces: providing the necessary dose of guidance, but avoiding instruction over...
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