Daily Unadventures in Cooking

This pear pie recipe uses fresh pears which you first caramelize in butter, brown sugar and rum and then bake inside fresh pastry for a delicious result.

Experimenting with a lattice top on my perfect strawberry rhubarb pie recipe.

J gave me the night off from cooking dinner last night and made a yummy batch of burgers and corn on the cob. This was partially to encourage me to make a pie I think. The man will do just about anything for pie and it worked. Now you know how on Top Chef every [...]

Update: I am having some problems with photoshop colour palettes and although this looks fine on my mac it looks funny on windows. Please bear with me… but if anyone has any suggestions.. I have been wanting to make a galette after they started showing up on all the blogs a few weeks ago. I [...]

The Daring Bakers strike again, this time challenging me with that darn pastry making. After the bostini I felt pretty confident in my egg white whipping abilities – or that of my kitchen aid at least- but pastry is altogether different. In the end though, it was the custard that was my undoing. Never underestimate [...]