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Puff: Provencal Pizza - Ngoc Minh Ngo

Make Frozen Puff Pastry Pizza Tonight

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Make this gorgeous Provençal Pizza with store-bought puff pastry in a matter of minutes.

Puff: Provencal Pizza - Ngoc Minh Ngo

 

EASY + GOOD | Puff pastry is a flaky, crispy ingredient found in a surprising array of show- stopping appetizers, entrées and sweets. Of course you can make it from scratch if you want—à la Julia, perhaps?—but quality premade products found in the freezer section of grocery stores work fine, too.

Author Martha Holmberg used mostly frozen puff pastry for the 50 interesting and original recipes featured in her cookbook Puff—mains like the pizza alternative she shares with Frugalbits readers here. Read more

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Puff Pastry Sweets & Savouries In Under 10 Minutes

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These delicious puff pastry sweets and savouries are oven-ready in less than 10 minutes. (RECIPES)

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EASY & DELISH | Making authentic French puff pastry is no small accomplishment, even for the likes of Martha Stewart who confessed in her cookbook Martha Stewart Pies & Tarts that producing a classic puff takes time, “skill and practice,” and that she’s had her share of difficulties making one “because there are so many variables.”

While “quick-from-scratch puff pastry” is definitely easier and less time-consuming to make than the true classic version, it can still be a disaster as I learned not long ago when I tried to replicate THIS AWESOME RECIPE from the Los Angeles Times. Read more