The best pies, for me, are the handheld sort: pasties filled with rich gravy and meat; pies that you can hold by a thick crust, eating as you walk; pastry slices that leave your fingers and lips greasy and your appetite calling for more.
Roll out the second half of the pastry and slice for a lattice top.
And the long shape meant I could serve the pastry in slices to show off the colorful filling.
The pear tart won the most kudos for its hot-from-the-oven puff pastry, thin slices of fruit and caramel sauce.
Miniature sausages in puff pastry and slices of cheese, including a fetching red, green and white British concoction, were much in evidence.
Get them involved in cooking, if they can decorate their own food with pastry or cheese slices cut into shapes, or just placing the food & sauces to make funny faces its far more interesting for them.
Nowhere else in this group of 14 islands (despite dodeca meaning 12) are so many layers of architectural history piled upon one another like leaves of pastry in a slice of baklava, especially the citadel of Rhodes Old Town.
The In2itive will not replace a food processor for mixing cake batter, bread dough or pastry, it cannot slice or shred, and it can chop only a small quantity of onions or celery, not a couple of cups.
I was relieved that the appetizer, pâté en croute, looked as good as it did — pâté baked in a flaky pastry crust, then sliced and served with pickles, parsley, and a little mustard arranged on the plate — and I was relieved that it was a cold dish, and had been done in advance.
Arrange the slices, pastry up, on the baking sheet.
