From rich butter puff to crumbly shortcrust and crisp layered fillo, there’s a world of dishes to be made with delicious pastry. Here are some of my favourite recipes to make your own pastry and to make easy dishes using ready-made pastry sheets.
How To Blind Bake A Pie Crust Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes I always have a couple of packs of Carême ready-rolled pastry in my freezer for quick pies and tarts. A pot pie is the quickest and easiest pie to make as the ingredients go […]
How To Use A Lattice Roller Cutter Order a Lattice Roller Cutter Now To Add A Professional Finish to Pies & Tarts A lattice roller cutter cuts pastry to give a professional finish to pies, tarts and other pastries, including beef or salmon wellington. They’re available from kitchenware stores and easy to use, as chef […]
Spinach & Cheese Triangles Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Greek cooking class Inspired by Janni Kyritsis! Fillo pastry forms a delicious case for all sorts of fillings, meat and vegetable alike. Use this recipe as a starting point for your own creations – combine ricotta, haloumi, akawi or any Middle Eastern white cheese […]
Bensone Ripieno Taste Bensone in Modena on my Small Group Italian Food & Wine Tour Bensone is a specialty of Modena, where it’s also called balsone or ciambella Emiliana. Ciambella means donut in Italian and also refers to any ring-shaped cake. Ciambelle appear all over the country with different flavourings and textures, there are even […]
Sigara Borek (Turkish Cheese & Herb Rolls) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Turkish cooking class inspired by Somer Sivrioglu! Börek filled with cheese and herbs is one of my favourite food experiences from my travels in Turkey. I remember arriving early one morning in the eastern town of Tatvan having caught the overnight […]
Salmon Wellington Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! Traditional beef Wellington is a series of parcels – beef wrapped in mushroom, wrapped in crêpe, wrapped in pastry – and the method can easily be adapted to other proteins, especially salmon which looks very pretty with its orange flesh contrasting against the […]
Snapper Baked in Salt Crust Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class Inspired by Janni Kyritsis! Snapper baked in salt crust is a wonderful dish for entertaining – it’s easy to prepare as most of the work is done ahead of time and it’s so impressive when unveiled at the table. Janni Kyritsis […]
Salmon Bisteeya Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Middle Eastern cooking class inspired by Michael Rantissi! Bisteeya is a classic Moroccan pie, traditionally made with pigeon and other poultry. It lends itself beautifully to seafood too, especially gorgeous pink salmon – and a seafood version is even quicker and easier to make as there’s […]
Seafood Pot Pies Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! I love pot pies as there’s no pastry base to fiddle around blind baking, just a flaky golden pastry lid. You can bake them in a ramekin, ovenproof bowl or soufflé dish and fill them with virtually anything […]
Swiss Pastetli(Vol-au-Vent) Discover more delicious Swiss dishes on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! In Switzerland, pastete means pie and in Swiss adding an “i” to the end of a word forms a diminutive – so a small pie is a pastetli. Pastetli in Switzerland are what we know by the French […]
