Puff Pastry

Bacon & Onion Tart Recipe

Slices of caramelized onion and bacon on crispy, flaky puff pastry. Serve with a side salad.

Cheese, Artichoke and Pancetta Puffs Recipe

They’ll think you fussed forever with savoury pastry squares. Good as a light lunch with a quick, leafy salad on the side.

Cheese, Potato and Onion Squares Recipe

You can make the pie up to a day ahead; just don’t glaze it with the egg until it actually goes into the oven.

Cheesy Tomato & Olive Tarts Recipe

Nice for a lunch, with a leafy green side salad.

Chicken Pot Pie with Chestnut Mushrooms, White Wine Sauce and Puff Pastry Crust

This pie has a gorgeous filling, a gorgeous crust, and so few ingredients! Yet the flavours of the chicken, chestnut mushrooms and white wine come through in a memorable dish.

Dill & Cheese Pasties

Very easy, can be made a day in advance.

French Onion Tart

The onions turn really sweet because they are cooked for so long, first in the frying pan and then again in the oven. Very nice with a salad with tomatoes in it.

Use as a topping for meat or fruit pies, sausage rolls, etc, where you want a flaky crust but don’t need the rise. Don’t use this in recipes where the pastry needs to really rise, such as vol-au-vents, etc.

Puff Pastry Fat

Puff Pastry Fat is a special fat for the commercial production of pastries, including pie crusts, puff pastry, Danish pastries, and croissants, It’s made from hydrogenated vegetable oils, which makes it acceptable to specialized diets such as Jewish or Muslim ones. It’s better than margarine produced for the home market, as it has far less…

Sausage and Beef Wellington Recipe

A simple, inexpensive take on Beef Wellington

Sausage and Mushroom Turnovers

You can serve these hot or room temperature. Room temperature, they make great picnic food.

Squash, Spinach and Prune Roll Recipe

This is a bit of futzing, but as most of these kinds of recipes are for meat, it was worth including this meatless one. The prunes are actually gorgeous in it, particularly with the squash.

Strawberry Mille Feuille Recipe

This is a cheat’s version, but who’ll complain if you hand it to them?

Tomato Basil Puff Squares

This is a summer recipe; make when the tomatoes are at their best and fresh basil is plentiful and inexpensive.

Upside Down Tomato Puff Pie

Baked red onions, tomatoes and puff pastry: yum. Dead easy to make, and looks great.

Zucchini and Pesto Puffs

Lovely puffs that actually feature zucchini, rather than attempting to camoflauge it.