Sand tarts (a decorated crispy, flat butter cookie) have been a Frey-family favorite Christmas cookie for many years. Sand tarts are basically creamed butter and white sugar stabilized with a little egg and flour. While pursuing a reliable recipe for a Nutter Butter-like cookie dough that could be rolled and cut, I realized that when I made the cookies thin enough they baked to that same flat, crispy form with a mild peanut butter flavor.
Written by Jeff Frey on Monday August 10, 2020
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The Shoprite grocery store once had "Puffin Muffins" on sale every weekend. When Juliet was younger she picked-out a green pistachio muffin one week and loved it. Years later she is still enamored of them — just this past summer she chose a jumbo pistachio muffin as a treat at the beach. This recipe attempts to capture the flavor and scale of those mega muffins she loves.
Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday December 3, 2022
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I've tried lots of bread recipes. And a good many of them have been for Italian-style breads — most importantly, pizza dough. Good homemade pizza partly comes from a good dough and partly from how you bake it. I've found that a bread stone and wood on my gas grill are the best baking media; this is the best dough recipe. It is based upon a recipe I found online for the dough from Roberta's of Bushwick, Brooklyn. It deviates in its use of more olive oil and an altered preparation.
Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday March 5, 2016
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Why is it that no recipe seems to call for a whole can of pumpkin purée? The big question when making anything with pumpkin in it is: "so what else do I make to use up this stuff?" How 'bout a slightly sweet, mildly spiced scone with cinnamon chips? Add a cup of hot coffee and you've got breakfast.
Written by Jeff Frey on Sunday October 30, 2016
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My mom makes fantastic homemade chocolate whoopie pies. One day we had pumpkin pancakes for dinner and I found myself with just shy of 1 cup of pumpkin purée left over — what to do? I found a recipe online for pumpkin whoopie pies. It needed to be altered slightly to scale down to the amount of homemade pumpkin purée, and I wanted to use my mom's cream filling recipe.
Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday October 8, 2022
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A simple but flavorful Italian salad dressing.
Written by Jeff Frey on Saturday July 24, 2021
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