Le Bon Pastry

Oatmeal Creme Pies

As I mature in life and my pursuits, I realize that I am a different person now than I was when I started this. Life has taken me on a journey of growth, and this rebrand is just the next part of it. It won't lose the heart of what I've done so far, but it will get a new face. It will be bigger and better, with more love and life and tastes of home to spread around.

Shortbread Piano!

I used the recipe for Ted Lasso cookies to make regular and brown sugar shortbread cookies so I could make a piano!

Baking should be fun. It is the little things that make it so. 😁🎹

I just want to celebrate this pasta. I was thinking back to the fact that I made this from scratch back in October of last year. It tasted so good, and I was so proud of myself, it being my first time. This precious thing has been sinking into the depths of my gallery for far too long. Today, it shall riiiisseee!! 😅⬆️

Here you see "Semola Pasta" made from semola rimacinata flour (Semola rimicinata di grano duro), water, and salt. I paired it with my go to veggies of zucchini & squash, with tomatoes onions, and garlic; seasoned with the Mediterranean works and of course extra virgin olive oil!

At the time, I didn't have eggs and realized that this wasn't semolina which is more common in the U.S. Thankfully, I'd bought the semola because I am all about Authenticity, and I bought the one made in Italy, which turned out to be the finer Semola.

I did some research online to see if I could make pasta without eggs with the semola. Thanks to recipe, I learned something new and was able to proceed...

Among other things, Semola is used to make orecchiette, a hand formed pasta from the Southern region of Italy. I tried several times but cannot yet make it. I don't have the technique down right now. It requires, to put it simply, requires you to roll the dough into strips, cut small pieces that you roll open towards you into a round shape with a butter knife and then imprint with your thumb on the other side going away from you. (Go find it on YT has a video.)

Hopefully one day soon, I will get it or someone can teach me. Mine is flawed but still worth celebrating!