Individual Baked Brie

Mini-baked brie with caramelized balsamic onions, poached pear, and candied walnuts. Personal-sized brie topped with caramelized onions, baked in flakey puff pastry, garnished with poached bosc pear, and brown sugar balsamic walnuts. This recipe has a lot of steps. Below are some tips that will hopefully make the process easier. Poaching pears is easy, but […]

Plum Frangipane Tarts

Flakey puff pastry filled with fresh plums, frangipane, and glazed with thyme-infused honey. These delicious little pastries are not overly sweet with buttery puff pastry and delicate flavors of plum, frangipane, and thyme honey. Frangipane is one of those things you either love or you don’t know about. Thankfully I know about it because it […]

Potato Pumpkin Tart

Flakey butter pastry, with a creamy rosemary parmesan filling, layered with potato and kabocha pumpkin. This recipe can easily be altered to a quick version by substituting store bought puff pastry for the dough. The quality of the tart will not suffer, and it will trim three hours from the prep time. If time isn’t […]