Cooking & Baking

I'm in the "don't" category because RA has done a number on my hands and I'm just not up to it, nor was I ever up to it because of the pain. I did it once and learned that a good bakery did it better.

Back in Boston, there were wonderful bakeries to choose from and some of them sold ready to go puff pastry to finish off at home if you wanted something that wasn't on the menu, especially something en croute with puff pastry decorations. Aspirational city people will relate to this.

Here in NM, the bakeries are harder to find. Puff pastry is sold frozen in the supermarket but it's like the prefab pie crusts, just not as good because big manufacturers cut too many corners. In fact, check the cost between that and a few packages of PopnFresh crescent rolls, it's pretty much the same dough and the latter will work for appearance and texture, just not buttery flavor.