Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Puff Pastry.....1000 layers!

Back in the kitchen again!

I can't find any fresh cake yeast any where.....so I decided to make the next best dough. Puff Pastry.
You know, the mother of all pastry doughs! 
I always thought once you mastered this dough, you could pretty much accomplish anything! (that sounds pretty pompous!)







I dug out my trusty recipe, you remember, the one that started my whole teaching gig. I had some President butter in the fridge this time. My homage to France! I'm always surprised to find little French friends in the grocery. A cool morning and I was prepping my detrempe!

Again, all was well in the baking world and I had some great dough to play with.


Easy to roll out and shape. I had some Serrano ham in the fridge along with feta and thought a little lunch 'braid' would work well.

My next pastry temptation was a cream cheese cherry turnover. I added a little lime zest and it really brought the cream cheese mix to life.

Guess what I found at the grocery today? Yep.....fresh yeast. Got my Croissant recipe out again. I'm on my way to make some dough. I'm thinking Almond Croissant & Pain au Chocolate this time. What do you think??


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Jennifer said...

Love your blog! I have always wanted to try Puff Pastry. Maybe I'll give it a go. Love the picture of the dough in profile:) Thanks for your great service at WS yesterday. I'm trying out my little spiralizer tonight!

Banlieue Blog said...

Hey Jennifer.....I gave your blog a spin...I'm inspired to get mine going again. Let me know how you like your spiralizer...you can blog about it! See you again!