Window shopping
Have you ever been to the King Arthur Flour website?
Oh I love them. They have a great recipe collection and a message board.
However, the last time I was over there I wasn’t looking up recipes or checking out the message board. I was doing some online window shopping. And I saw all sorts of must haves. Specialty flours and measuring spoons. Baking pans and pie shields. oh man.
Another cool item is a dvd called Blitz Puff Pastry. That one I did not even try to resist. Into my shopping cart it went. And the free shipping was nice.
The funny thing is I had never even heard of blitz pastry before. I had heard of puff pastry, but not the blitz part.
When I got the dvd I watched it twice and headed off to the kitchen to make my first batch of puff pastry. It was very easy. I used it to make a few apple turnovers and a lot of twisty cinnamon sticks.
I had actually never made apple turnovers before. I figured they were just apple pies with a different shape, so I simply used the filling from an old apple pie recipe I liked.
After making and baking one, I determined that the filling did not go well with the dough. So I combed allrecipes.com for a proper apple turnover filling.
I found one, scaled down the recipe and proceeded to make and bake another turnover. It was a winner. (I love reader reviews, they save me so much time and energy, not to mention resources.) I made more filling, then added three more turnovers to the platter. After that, I switched gears, time for some twisty sticks.
They were also easy. But half way through I nixed the ‘twisty’. Too time consuming. But I did add cinnamon sugar to both sides of the dough before baking. It made such a huge difference in taste that I couldn’t afford not to do it.
