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Posts tagged “crostata”

Super-Quick Summer Dessert: Peach and Biscuit Crostata

Fast, rustic, and delicious: biscuit crostatas are one of our favorite summer desserts. After all, we're surrounded by fabulous ripe fruit that needs very little help. If you want to dress up a peach ...

Good Question: Looking For a Strawberry Galette Recipe

Here's a question from reader Haivan, who asks: I've been picking a lot of strawberries fresh from the local farms. Now I've got many, many jars of jam made...but how about some galette? Does anyone h...

Recipe: Italian Jam Crostata
Guest Post from Josué of JosueDiaz.com

Crostata is a favorite dessert of our family. It's a simple and basic but extremely flavorful dessert consumed in Italy and the region of Puglia, with the specific coastal town of Vieste being the tow...

Recipe: Pear and Blue Cheese Crostata

We're not going to go on and on about how easy and forgiving crostatas are (we've done that plenty). But we'll sing the praises of this combination: pears and crumbles of sharp blue cheese. It's desse...

Word of Mouth: Galette

galette (gah-leht): n. A round, flat cake with a flaky pastry crust, originating in France. We've been talking about crostatas a lot lately, and we started to wonder what the difference is between o...

Recipe Review: Prune Plum Crostata with Brown Sugar Topping

This recipe reminded us of why we love crostatas so much (and made us wonder why we don't make them more often). The dough comes together quickly and is easier to work with than other crusts we've mad...

Non-Intimidating Dessert: Free-Form Crostatas

In her cookbook Barefoot Contessa Parties, Ina Garten says of her Apple Crostata, "This is my absolute, all-time favorite dessert. I've made it so often that I'm sure my friends are saying behind m...