More puff pastry recipes

Speaking of puff pastry sheets - this has inspired my sister to send a couple of recipes, one of which I have been cooking for a long time, but the other was new to me. The message is that with puff pastry, you can also make magnificent piroshki-like items, filled with things such as broccoli or feta cheese. Personally, I have cooked the variety with mushrooms since the dawn of time.

Broccoli-piroshki

cook broccolis, crush with a fork, mix with ricotta cheese, and eggs.

take the puff pastry sheets and make holes with a fork. Then pile the mixture on one half of the sheet and cover with the other half. Bake for 20-30 minutes at 200C (400F).

The filling can also be made with mushrooms (grill onions, then add mushrooms, add ricotta), or with feta cheese (ca 200g feta cheese, 2 eggs, mix well).

Unfortunately, these items have so far proven unpopular with the children!

Apple tarts

One of the simplest things to make is apple tarts, using pre-made puff pastry dough. Puff pastry dough is exceptionally difficult to make on your own, so you don't need any excuses to buy one. I use Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheets. (I'm sure we'll meet the puff pastry cups in a later post!)

Thaw the puff pastry sheets and cut them in stripes of about 7.5cm (3in). Slice up an apple and arrange the slices on the dough. (Of course you can also use pears, peaches, or apricots...)

Bake for 15-20minutes at 400F (200C).

Often, the baked apple tarts are covered with confectionary sugar, but this is not really necessary.

I would like to know how to put some almond paste between the dough and the apple slices...