Saturday Morning Snapshot
Was given about a million of these strange tiny plums. Don’t know what type they are, but I do know they’re pretty tasty!
State of the Blog
This week was the last week of Nerd Month ! I had so much fun this month coming up with recipes for and writing about shows, movies, and books (okay, book, singular ) I love, but I’m glad we’ve reached the end of it. Finding the perfect GIFs to use in posts is surprisingly time-consuming, as was editing down my gushing over every single book/movie/tv show I posted about.
For the last set of Nerd Month recipes, I posted two from British television favorites and one from Bob’s Burgers , the sweetest animated comedy on television.
Next week the blog turns six months old! My baby blog is growing up. 🙂 To celebrate, I’m adding an extra posting day to the schedule every other week. Starting yesterday, two Saturdays a month, a simple foundation recipe or favorite tip or trick will go up. This way I can still keep more interesting recipes coming during the week, but provide step-by-step walk throughs for some of my most-used basics. This week I started with with my favorite buttermilk pie crust .
Later this week, there will be the usual end-of-the-month theme roundup post, a healthy and easy dinner, and my new favorite summer dessert.
Recipes/posts released this week were:
No-recipe Homemade Mashed Potatoes – How to make easy homemade mashed potatoes with no recipe required, instructions I wish someone had given me during my childhood of eating boxed mashed potatoes!
Bacon Dutch Apple Baby For Two – Smokey bacon and tart apples make this Dutch Apple Baby pancake the perfect breakfast for a lazy weekend morning.
Tinto De Verano Red Wine Popsicles – Super easy Tinto De Verano red wine popsicles made with your favorite red wine, lemon lime soda, and a homemade lime simple syrup. Delicious, boozy treats perfect for a grown-up summer.
My Favorite Buttermilk Pie Crust – My favorite flaky, delicious buttermilk pie crust (made with a food processor). This is seriously the easiest pie dough you will ever make or work with!
Pop-culture Corner
It’s season finale time! How are all your favorite shows wrapping up? Any good twists or cliffhangers?
I caught The Nice Guys this weekend and it was soooooo charming and funny! Have you seen it yet?
Fellow Game Of Thrones fans, what did you think of last week’s hold the door moment? Did it get you? I might just be a monster, because I was UNMOVED!
Then again, this is coming from someone who cried over the shenanigans of a Winchester on the Supernatural finale this week, so my emotional responses are clearly suspect.
It’s James Bond casting speculation time! Who do you want to replace him? I know Tom Hiddleston is the front runner , but I really had my heart set on Tom Hardy or Idris Elba.
Finally, speaking of Tom Hiddleston, I let all the episodes of the Night Manager build up on my DVR. Now that it’s finished airing in the States, I can’t wait to binge it. Has anyone watched this yet?
Meal Planning
Saturday: Homemade Margherita Pizza Sunday: Chicken and Asparagus Pasta Monday: BBQ Steak with Corn on the Cob Tuesday: Slightly Spicy Chipotle Chicken Salad Wednesday: Mom’s Chicken Noodle Soup Thursday: Sausage and Zucchini Bake Friday: TBD
Wishing you a great weekend and a peaceful Memorial Day!
My favorite flaky, delicious buttermilk pie crust (made with a food processor). This is seriously the easiest pie dough you will ever make or work with!
Hey, it’s a Saturday. What’s a Baking Mischief recipe doing in your feed!? Welcome to Simple Saturdays!
I have a ton of foundation recipes or simple tips and tricks I have been wanting to add to the blog but just haven’t been able to fit into the Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule.
I’ve simply published a couple of them backdated in the feed so I can link to them in recipes, but adding another posting day to the schedule seemed like the best compromise to make sure they are seen (and can therefore be of use), so every other Saturday, we’ll have a simple recipe, trick, or maybe a round up I’ve been dying to do.
And if you have any requests for posts or something you would like to see, shoot me an email ! I want to post the things that are going to best help you!
Okay, table setting aside. On to the recipe: My Favorite Buttermilk Pie Crust! You’ve seen this recipe before. I used it for my Green Eggs and Ham Mini Quiche , my Easy Beef Pasties , and it will show up again in a recipe this Friday, but I know pie crust can be intimidating for a lot of people (it certainly was for me), so I wanted to do a step by step walk through.
I LOVE this pie crust for these reasons, in this order:
- It’s SO delicious and flaky. It’s an all butter crust, and nothing beats the rich taste of pure butter in pie crust.
- It’s incredibly easy to work with when rolling out and shaping.
- It’s the easiest thing in the world to make. Seriously. I have pictures to prove it.
This method uses a food processor. You CAN make this dough with a pastry cutter * and a bowl–that’s how I make most of my other pie crusts to ensure a nice and flaky finished product, but this dough produces such a flaky crust that making it in the food processor doesn’t seem to affect it at all. So for the convenience, if at all possible, I say use a food processor!
If you don’t own one, this is the food processor I have *, and I love it.
This recipe makes about 24 ounces of dough. That’s enough for two 9-inch crusts. A half batch will make a single 9-inch crust or two 6-inch pie crusts for mini pies. If you have a small food processor, I recommend making only a half batch at a time, as the 5-cup models will have trouble processing this amount of dough.
And now how to make the easiest buttermilk pie crust in the world:
Dump all the dry ingredients in your food processor.
Add chilled butter and pulse until butter is about the size of a pea.
Drizzle in buttermilk…
…and pulse until mixture just begins to clump together.
You know it’s done and has enough liquid if it holds its shape when pressed together.
Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on the counter and dump half of the mixture onto the wrap.
Press tightly into a disk (if you are going to make full, round crusts, make your disk as circular as possible since it will make rolling easier later–these were destined to become mini pie crusts so I didn’t bother) and repeat with the other half of the crumbs. Store in a plastic bag and refrigerate for at least an hour, up to two days before using.
Roll out, shape, and make into something delicious like:
- Easy Dutch Apple Pie
- Game of Thrones Frey Pie
- Pie Crust Pizza Tarts
- Individual Chicken Pot Pies
- Mini Dutch Apple Galette
P.S. If you have any leftover scraps of pie dough, check out this post on What to Do With Leftover Pie Dough .
Ingredients
Full Batch (9-inch Double Crust)
- ▢ 1 cup ( 8 oz, 2 sticks) cold unsalted butter cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- ▢ 2 1/2 cups ( 300 g) all-purpose flour
- ▢ 1 tablespoon ( 13 g) granulated sugar
- ▢ 1 teaspoon salt
- ▢ 1/2 to 2/3 cup buttermilk*
Half Batch (9-inch Single Crust or 6-inch Double Crust)
- ▢ 8 tablespoons ( 4 oz, 1 stick) cold unsalted butter cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- ▢ 1 1/4 cups ( 150 g) all-purpose flour
- ▢ 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- ▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ▢ 1/4 to 1/3 cup buttermilk
Quarter Batch (6-inch Single Crust)
- ▢ 4 tablespoons ( 2 oz) cold unsalted butter cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- ▢ 1/2 cup and 2 tablespoons ( 75 g) all-purpose flour
- ▢ 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- ▢ 1/4 teaspoon salt
- ▢ 2 tablespoons to 2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons buttermilk
Instructions
- Before you begin measuring everything out, place the cubed butter in the freezer to chill.
- Stir together flour, sugar, and salt, and pour into the food processor. Add butter and pulse until butter is cut into the flour, but still has visible chunks no larger than a pea.
- While pulsing, slowly pour in 1/2 cup of the buttermilk (1/4 for half batch, 2 tablespoons for a quarter batch) and continue to pulse until the buttermilk is incorporated into the dough. At this point, your dough should look like rough crumbs and just hold its shape if squeezed together. If the dough does not, add a a little more buttermilk, a teaspoon at a time.
- Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on the counter and dump half of your dough crumbs onto the sheet. (If you are making only a single crust, do not divide dough.) Gather the edges and press tightly together to form a 1-inch thick disk. Do the same with the rest of the dough. Place in a plastic bag and refrigerate for at least an hour, up to 24.
Notes
Nutritional Information Recipe Adapted From: B.Britnell Make-ahead Instructions: This dough does very well when made ahead of time. Simply store as shown, in the refrigerator, and use within 48 hours or freeze. Freezer Instructions: Freeze plastic-wrapped dough in a freezer bag and keep for up to 3 months. To use, defrost in the refrigerator overnight.
40+ of my favorite nerdy recipes inspired by books, television, and movies. Recipes for everything from ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ to ‘Star Wars’ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
May Nerd Month has come to a close. Whew, it has been a long, GIF-filled month of book, television, and film recipes.
Thank you, lovely readers, for indulging me and following along as I fangirled over and rambled on about so many things I love. I had such a blast putting these recipes and posts together and I hope you had a good time too!
My Nerd Month Recipes Were:
Person of Interest Strawberry Glazed Sencha Green Tea Doughnuts
Avengers Chicken Shawarma With Yogurt Sauce
Captain America Brooklyn Blackout Cupcakes
Wonderfalls Candy-Sweet Jello Shots with Triple Sec Whipped Cream
Pushing Daisies Kahlua Cream Cheese Cup Pies
Hannibal Lomo Saltado With Oven-baked Fries
American Gods Easy Beef Pasties
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Happy Endings Strawberry Mimosas
Happy Endings Easy Oven-Baked Ribs
The IT Crowd No-recipe Homemade Mashed Potatoes
Bob’s Burgers Bacon Dutch Apple Baby For Two
Black Books Tinto De Verano Red Wine Popsicles
As I do at the end of every monthly series, I’m finishing out the month with even more recipes that fit the theme from some of my favorite fellow bloggers (with a couple of my own in there too), and oh my word, they are fantastic! I was a huge fan of some of these recipes before Baking Mischief even existed, so I’m so excited to get to share them here.
Recipes are divided into Book , Television , and Movies categories to reduce load time on the pages, so make sure to check them all out!
Television Recipes | Book Recipes
Movies
Deadpool Funfetti Cake Pops from The Flavor Bender
Captain America Slushy Cocktail from Giraffes Can Bake
Star Wars Rogue One Vegan Toffee Ice Cream from Nerdy Mamma
Gone With the Wind Chocolate Chess Pie from Gourmet Project
Star Wars Macarons from Goodie Godmother
Spirited Away Soot Sprite Cookie Pops from Fiction Kitchen
Alice in Wonderland Chai Latte Cupcakes from Bread Booze Bacon
Superman Kryptonite Candy from Bread Booze Bacon
Ratatouille Omelet from All Roads Lead to the Kitchen
Captain America Cheesecake Parfaits
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