Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

There’s nothing more retro than vol-au-vents. This party favourite is making a comeback. They’re easy enough to make if you cheat (and we’ll tell you how) and now you can jazz them up with a variety ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Chef Simon Webster from Sabor a Pasion joined us to make an elegant, yet quite easy to make, Valentine’s Day dinner idea. Lay puff pastry sheet on a work surface and fold in half ...

They're utterly delicious, and, in a world of unwieldy, new-fangled canapes, eminently practical. Yes, vol-au-vents, those small pastry cases stuffed full with savoury fillings, are back. Hurrah!

Vol-au-vent is a French classic, but don’t be intimidated. It’s nothing but a puff pastry shell with a lid that you can buy frozen and ready to use in any supermarket. Pastry shells are very ...

1. On a lightly floured board, roll the puff pastry out into a rectangle measuring about 8 by 16 inches; the dough will be just under one-fourth-inch thick. 2. Using a 4-inch round pastry cutter, cut ...

To shape pastry: On lightly floured board, roll puff pastry into 8-by-16-inch rectangle. (Note: Dough will be slightly less than 1/4-inch thick.) Using 4-inch round pastry cutter, cut out 8 rounds.