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Steak and Potato Pie Recipe
Steak and Potato Pie Recipe I’m still in the Celtic state of mind, and will be for sometime, as in less than a month, I will flying to the land of my adoptive ancestors birth. Ireland is from where my...
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Seven Days Seven Recipes
Seven Days Seven Recipes The days are going by quickly now. Just seven before I wing my way to Ireland. A year ago I felt a strong pull to travel there. I guess you could call it a pilgrimage of sorts,...
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Kate’s Chicken Curry Pie
Kate’s Chicken Curry Pie When I was at university studying humanities, one of my roommates made a delicious chicken curry every few weeks. I loved it so much, she finally shared her recipe for the...
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Irish Oatmeal
Irish Oatmeal It’s great to be home. Sweet Gretapie with her tail a-wagging, and Mr Fez purring and rubbing up against my legs, greet me as soon as I walk in the door. The morning after, Duncan pops in...
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Elderflowers
Elderflowers Summer began last weekend and on that first lovely day I picked elderflowers. This is something I had never done but for years I had wanted to. A few weeks earlier, I texted my friend...
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Fudgy Brownies for Two Hundred
Fudgy Brownies for Two Hundred No, I haven’t gone over the deep end with a chocolate addiction, although I do enjoy a good piece of chocolate, especially when it is from small bean to bar artisan...
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Transparent Pie
TRANSPARENT PIE I’d heard of it. Seen a few references in books. Searched in my personal pie library for recipes. Found just a few. Read them all. Closed the books. Slept on it. Slept on it some more....
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Apple Cider Pressing Day and Hearty Cheddar Cheese Potato Soup
Apple Cider Pressing and Hearty Cheddar Cheese Potato Soup We have an apple cider pressing at Pie Cottage each fall and this year was no exception. At noon on Saturday, the pressing began and it...
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Slow Speed Soup
Time to Nest I love this time of year, when nights are longer, and days are shorter. Today is a gray day…all the better. I return home early yesterday morning, 12:58 AM if you are counting, after...
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White Bean Soup Recipe
White Bean Soup Recipe I don’t consider myself a writer. A home baker, yes–but writer? Well, that has come as a big surprise. When writing Art of the Pie, I had no idea what I was doing. I thought one...
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Greek Beef Pie
Greek Beef Pie There was a Greek coffee house and restaurant in Santa Barbara called The Plaka which opened in 1971. If you lived there for any length of time, you may have even spent an evening there...
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We Need Brownies
We Need Brownies Brownies Sweet moist and dark I crave them I want them You know you want them, too So without further ado Here’s my recipe for you Fudgy Brownies from Home Cooking with Kate McDermott...
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How to Create a Recipe
An Experiment in the Oven It’s is in the oven. An experiment. I put it in 5 minutes ago and I wonder what will it turn out to be…a hit or a miss. I’ve made both. You would think I might take a hiatus...
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Aquafaba Meringue
Make meringue from bean-water? I let the idea roll around in my mind until I was making a quick hummus for lunch, saved the liquid from the canned garbanzos, took a deep breath, and made a meringue...
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Spinach, Onion, and Cheese Quiche
Is a quiche a pie or a tart? By the strictest definition, a pie with only a bottom crust is a tart. Janet Clarkson writes in her book, Pie: A Global History, of the lively debate in the 1920s in which...
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Press-In Crusts are Quick & Easy
Last night in an online book group, I was asked what is the simplest crust to make. This is a question I am often asked and without a doubt the one that I suggest is a press-in crust made with...
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Love Beets
Jump to Story Recipes first. You’ll find the story at the end. 😉 Recipe: Roast Beets Rinse beets. Trim tops to about 1.5″ and the root to 2″. The beet tops can be cooked, composted, or feed to your...
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Inventing the Wheel
Inventing the Wheel I thought I was so smart. I really did. I made a mug of coffee. It’s one of my guilty pleasures, the other major one being all the plastic wrap I use in pie making workshops. I...
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National Cherry Pie Day
National Cherry Pie Day Today, February 20th, is National Cherry Pie Day. I’ve never spoken with a pie maker who has any idea of who created this day but we all agree that it must have something to do...
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Scones for Royal Occasions
Scones for Royal Occasions Everybody is jumping on the royal wedding bandwagon. I haven’t paid too much attention to it, but believe me, when I say I think it’s lovely and charming when two people from...
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