Summer Break
We’ll be closing up shop at Joe Pastry world headquarters for the next week or so. Back on Monday the 14th, tan, rested and ready. Happy 4th to all!
READ ONHow to Make English Muffins
I’ve had a weakness for English muffins all my life. The pity is, I’ve bought almost all of them from the grocery store. To think, all the while I could have been making a far superior — and far cheaper — English muffins myself! They’re not the slightest bit difficult to make…about like pancakes. The […]
READ ONWhose blog is this anyway?
The wife seems to be generating as much mail as I am with her muffin post. Here’s a good one from reader and mother Jo-Lee: Bravo Mrs. Pastry! With regards to the blog entry you wrote about kids and eating. My children (5 and 1) sound exactly the same as yours. I have thought about, […]
READ ONRiddle of the Griddle
The English muffin has the distinction of being the only savory bread we modern Americans eat that’s cooked on a griddle. As I mentioned in a previous post, “griddling” is a style of bread cookery that’s long been out of style in the Old World. Yet once upon a time British cuisine was chock-a-block with […]
READ ONDaredevil Pizza
Today’s New York Times food section includes a profile of Jeff Varasano, a former New Yorker whose obsession with reproducing real New York-style pizza has made him the number one authority on New York and/or Neapolitan pizza on the internet. If you’ve never been to his web site, it’s worth a trip. It’s got everything […]
READ ONHowdy cousin.
I’ve spent several days on American muffins, but while I’m on the subject, why not whip up a batch of the American muffin’s English-style cousin? Click here: www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_23595,00.html.
READ ONThe signs of summer.
Pick… …eat… …repeat. At least little Joan did until she all but blew up into a purple ball like Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka. You mean these things grow on trees? Nice to see that the local fruit orchards are managing to make a comeback after last year’s disastrous frosts. The patch where we usually […]
READ ONThe fruit is heavy on the vine…
Make that the bush. I may post lightly today. The sky is blue, it’s 78 degrees and the word from the local blueberry orchard is there’s a bumper crop of my favorite jam berry. Pack up the kids and the sun screen, we’re headed to Indiana.
READ ONMrs. Joe Pastry Speaks
Allow me to introduce myself, I am Jo Pastry. I rarely appear on this site, and then mostly as the butt of one of my husband’s snide remarks. However after reading yesterday’s post on the history of the “health” muffin, I decided it was high time I put up a post of my own. Though […]
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