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This week’s recipe is brought to us by Australian Pears and it’s a beauty. A great combination of salty and sweet, pears are the perfect complement to the recipe’s melted brie and honey balsamic vinegar. Beurre Bosc or Packham pears will work best and ideally, the pears should be slightly firm. Serves 4 | Prep time: 20 minutes (plus 1.5 hours proofing time) | Cook time: 20 minutes Ingredients 200ml water 1 tsp instant yeast 1 tsp caster sugar 320g plain flour 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1⁄2 tsp salt Toppings 1-2 pears, sliced into 3mm thick slices with mandolin 65g...

It’s a knish. My husband has a theory: When you decide to buy a new car, everywhere you look, you see that particular model. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can say with confidence that once you make a few hundred pies, everything begins to look like a pie. And that is how I came to define a knish as a kinda-pie, a pastry wrapped around filling. In fact, I put empanadas, calzones and samosas in the same category. It’s all pie to me. And every iteration is delicious. The deeper my dive into pie – using this...

They can also be made into rolls. From | The New Portuguese Table | Clarkson Potter, 2009 Every Saturday when I was growing up, my mother would go to the local Portuguese bakery and buy a dozen chouriço rolls—torpedo-shaped logs stuffed with sausage. By Monday, they would be gone, mostly due to me. To dress up my childhood classic, I added presunto and cheese, and sometimes sautéed onions and garlic, to the dough. And I form the rolls into round loaves because I think they look more elegant on the table.–David Leite Portuguese Sausage, Ham, and Cheese Loaves Quick Glance...