All Purpose

So remember that whole baking thing? Right. So it’s Tuesday and I realized when I got home that I still have not done a TWD this month and the souffle (which I missed last week) and these turnovers were the two things I wanted to do for September. So I flew by the seat of my pants and made these turnovers today, well tonight.

First, I made soup for dinner, Winter Minestrone. It was good.

Then quickly while the soup simmered I made the dough (I did a half recipe of this) and threw it in the fridge. The dough did not come together for me that easily, it actually seemed a little dry when the recipe said it would be wet. I squashed it into two balls and chilled it for about 20-30 minutes. Did the recipe say an hour? Sure.

Then I pulled it out and rolled it out using the plastic wrap method, which works like a charm I must say. I gotta remember that one. Then I folded it and chilled for about 20 more minutes, while I mixed together the dry ingredients and cut up the apples. I added a dash of curry to the dry stuff for fun.

Did the recipe say chill for 2 hours? Yes it did. I don’t have time like that though. I decided to just go for it and unfolded and rerolled the dough in plastic a couple of times to smooth the creases and then used ramekin as a dough cutter. It did work but the stickiness of the dough made me decide to do one pass through with the ramekin and save the rest of the dough and filling for tomorrow and a proper chilling.

So then I went to put the apples down and fold it all over and…

more like burritos than turnovers.

But I have to say they turned out delicious and that crust is awesome. The Italian said he could eat a whole plate of them.

So lessons for this week are to plan ahead, and get better lighting in my kitchen.

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