…New Years resolution to make pie, cheers! I use these tips for dough from galettes, pie crust, biscuits, scones, and anything that incorporates butter with flour in this manner. I am also an all butter crust lover. The flavor of butter beats any lard, or shortening. Back in the day they used shortening because it is less expensive than butter, it was not for flavor. If you treat butter a little more carefully than shortening, you will end up with…

…with Arugula came from a few recipes mashed together. I was making savory galettes, and tarts and wanted something a little easier. That is when the puff pasty popped into my head. While I love making galette dough, I also have a puff pastry sheet on hand in the freezer most of the time. We had this for dinner with a pile of extra arugula, and I roasted some chicken sausages after baking the tart, for filling protein. It was a nice, easy, delicio…

…tv shows teaching Helen on AM Northwest on pie makings, even savory flavor galettes too. But today we are hitting the easy button for a sweet Summer, flaky pastry dough treat. You can totally make homemade flaky dough for this dessert but if you need something a bit easier, use a puff pastry dough sheet and make these Peach Goat Cheese Tarts! I’ll be making these tarts with Helen on Wednesday June 8th from 9-10am! My Mama is home from Mexico and s…