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Homemade for the Holidays

December 5, 2023 janet@janetfletcher.com

At this time of year, everyone’s a cook. People who never bake are baking. We’re all on the hunt for festive recipes to make for parties or cart to potlucks. So I gathered a few of my own holiday favorites for your consideration. I make almost all of these dishes at some point between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. They are tried, retried and true. The best gougères. The best panforte (beautiful on a cheese board). The best pumpkin cheesecake. My opinion, of course, but I hope you’ll try some of these recipes and let me know what you think. All are party-ready and cheesy or intended to accompany cheese.

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Tags pumpkin cheesecake, gougères, panforte, blini, buckwheat blini, tarte flambée, truffled cheese
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Alsatian Tart is Crisp and Cheesy

December 21, 2021 janet@janetfletcher.com
Alsatian pizza or flammekueche

When the recent cream cheese shortage sent me scrambling for alternatives, I discovered a dreamy spreadable goat cheese from Norway. Maybe you’re already a fan of Snøfrisk. Or maybe, like me, you’ve noticed its wedge-shaped package next to other fresh cheeses but never bothered to give it a try. I’m making up for lost time now. I love this stuff. It’s perfect for tarte flambée, the paper-thin Alsatian pizza, which is getting to be a New Year’s Eve tradition at my house.

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In Milk: Goat, Milk: Cow Tags tarte flambée, Alsatian pizza, Snøfrisk, goat cheese, New Year’s Eve, appetizer, cream cheese shortage, cream cheese, flammekueche
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Tarts on Fire

December 19, 2017 janet@janetfletcher.com
PC-52 La Flamme 19_DSC2481.jpg

You read it here first: Tarte flambée is the pastry trend of the year. I’m seeing it everywhere—okay, three places lately—and I’m so happy it’s having a moment because I’ve loved this Alsatian specialty forever. For New Year’s Eve with the first glass of Champagne…well, that’s my plan anyway. I’m pretty pleased with my recipe. Even in a home oven, the crust comes out super-crisp around the edges, with creamy fromage blanc, onions and smoky bacon on top.

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags tarte flambée, flammekuche, flammenkuchen, Alsatian pizza, La Flamme, Flammerie, fromage blanc, Bellwether Farms
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My Kind of Cheese Pie

June 20, 2017 janet@janetfletcher.com
Live-Fire-Pizza

I enjoy a good pizza Margherita, but typically my favorite pies don’t have tomato sauce. Pizza bianca—a “white” pizza—is always my preference, and Liza Shaw shares that taste.  The consulting chef at the new Live Fire Pizza in Napa, Shaw is turning out crusty, balanced, wood-oven-seared pies—like this mushroom and radicchiocombo—that really flip my switch. I’ve tried four in two days. Of course, what makes awhite pizza white is the cheese, and Shaw makes some delicious choices on that front.

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In Milk: Cow, From: U.S. Tags Live Fire Pizza, Napa, Liza Shaw, pizza bianca, scamorza, ricotta, tarte flambée
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