by Joe P | Aug 26, 2012 | baking, cooking, Garlic, Greek, grilling, How To, pie, Puff Pastry, Spinach
As a child, I hated spinach. My mother tried every tactic of persuasion to get me to eat it—to no avail. Yes, I knew it was good for me—just like every food that seemed disgusting was “good” for me. No, I didn’t want to be like Popeye—who would want to be a...
by Plumstead | Jul 6, 2012 | baking, life, pie, recipes
The picture of the pie on this and my previous blog entry is not the “exploding pie”. Rather, it is how the exploding pie would have looked if I hadn’t screwed it up. It was an aesthetic failure and, simply, a god-awful mess because I was careless....
by Plumstead | Jun 26, 2012 | baking, life, pie, recipes
I’m broke. My restaurant went belly-up two months ago. My arthritis is giving me fits. I have a chest cold. My older dog, Moses, has been dead for three days. I’m an unemployed, achy, snot-clogged, one-dog chef in his late fifties. It is a...
