thanksgiving
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Make Perfect Pie Dough in Your Stand Mixer
Making pastry by hand is actually pretty easy, but it’s temperature-dependent enough to be intimidating. A good pie crust has flaky layers, which you get by manipulating butter that’s pliable — not soft or melted — into long, thin sheets. But the window between “pliable” and “soft” is just a few degrees Celsius, and confidently…
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Make Something With Pumpkin That Isn’t Pie
Growing up in Jamaica, I never realised how polarising pumpkin was until I went to culinary school in Toronto. During an autumn menu planning session, I advocated for pumpkin pie, declaring it “10 times better than apple pie.” I am still haunted by the visceral reactions my classmates had to my bold proclamation. I could…
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Make These Bacon Fat Sage Leaves in Your Air Fryer
Fried herbs can add texture, flavour, and colour to mashed potatoes, casseroles, and stuffing, but preciously frying little leaves in hot oil is not a task most people want to add to their turkey day to-do list. But if you have an air fryer, you can crisp up a whole bunch of these super savoury…
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The Pumpkin Pie Recipe Every Australian Should Try
11Pumpkin pie. It sounds weird to anyone born in Australia, where pumpkin is reserved for soup, roast dinners and occasionally for mixing in with mashed potato to make it a little bit healthier. We certainly don’t see it as a sweet food, much less a dessert, though as it turns out pumpkin pie is actually…