{"id":11679,"date":"2020-06-01T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=11679"},"modified":"2020-06-01T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:07:56","slug":"cooking-in-the-time-of-covid-puff-pastry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=11679","title":{"rendered":"Cooking in the Time of COVID – Puff Pastry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf73 Cooking in the Time of COVID \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf73<\/p>\n

This is it! The last post of the purge-the-pantry-flush-the-freezer-of-elderly-edibles exorcism! Aside from items that are mandated to reside there on a long term basis, all that remained in the freezer was some puff pastry; the pantry had been home to a can of Russian caramel fudge cream (sort of like dulce de leche) that was well past its expiration date; and apropos of expiry, those bananas on the counter were hurtling to their demise as well, so I let the weird experiments commence. <Cue ominous pipe organ music.><\/p>\n

For the sweet batch, I combined the mushy bananas with the dense caramel fudge cream and made some, um, what you see here…<\/p>\n

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…and tried a different shape as well. I don\u2019t have a clue as to what I made but they were crispy and sweet straight out of the oven.
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On the savory side, this is a melty, creamy, Greek feta, er, thing…
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…and I added slices of a remaining Polish sausage (remember those from a previous freezer rant?) to the mix in a final fling.
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All were yummy and frankly, if I knew they were going to taste this good, I might have taken more time shaping the dough \u2013 not my strong suit though. But it\u2019ll be a long time before I buy more frozen puff pastry unless I have a goal in mind beforehand. \ud83d\ude09
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\nStay safe, be well, and eat whatever it takes. \u2764\ufe0f
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If I knew they were going to taste this good, I might have taken more time shaping the dough. Read on…. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,31,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-in-the-time-of-covid","category-home-cookin","category-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11688,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions\/11688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}