Big Skye Bakers

OK, note to self. Choose carefully what fillings you use in these hand pies. It goes without saying that they all taste delicious but you are professional and can't be having these things spit like this. Tsk tsk.

Also cut down on the amount you try to pack in... 10 Lbs in a 5 LB bag...

I'm working toward creating the perfect puff pastry. I'm using a flour that I brought back from Walla Walla Wa. from a small family wheat farm. In fact, the name of the farm is Small's Family Farms. There are so many intricacies to flour, taste texture, and handling. This flour has a wonderful nutty taste. Here's a peach/frangipane galette from last week's market. Peach season is here, yea!

Oh Yum! Tasty Mesquite Meal Enhances Pie Crust and Waffles For thousands of years, mesquite pods were the primary food of people who lived on the Sonoran Desert. It's Carolyn here today recalling that when I first started researching and experimenting with...

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Thursday's pies for the Sierra Vista Farmers Market. There will be scones, cookies, cupcakes and Galettes.

Here's what's cooking at Big Skye. Fig Galettes - with a rye puff pastry and almond custard below the figs, lemon zest sprinkled on top. So a galette is the French version of pie. Not as thick as an English pie, no top crust and usually lightly sweetened. The Italians have a similar pastry they call Crostada. Both of these have savory varieties. People are thrown to say Pizza, but No! You risk being slapped soundly for such a gauche mistake.

You must come by my Bistro for a barely strawberry scones. We'll be at the Rillito Farmers Market tomorrow. Come early, it's going to be really hot. Do you think it is a coincidence that I set up next to Adventure Coffee...? I think not.

Barley, who knew? Just about everybody in the know. I will be making open faced roasted sweet pepper sandwiches from this bread. It has a nutty taste with notes of citrus from the orange zest. Really a spectacular bread.

My friend Sara gave me these white nectarines, many about as big as a golf ball. I made them up into galettes and served them at the Big Skye Sidewalk Cafe today at Rillito Farmers Market. Some couldn't get enough.

I'm making up some...don't know what to call them. I think they are kind of like a blinz. Brie, chocolate & raspberries. Pick them up at the Sierra Vista Market.

Just love my new bible, Good To The Grain. Thank you Emily Rockey. This oatmeal bread came from there. It makes a huge loaf and owes it's nutty brownness to the molasses in the recipe. Thank you Steve for the wonderful tomatoes and thank you Amber for the lovely eggs from your chickens.