How to Make a Flaky Pie Crust – So Easy a Kid Can Do It.

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I will admit, I just (finally) learned how to make a flaky pie crust, but when I did, man did I get into a pie kick.  Over just a few days, I made a bunch of things that needed pie dough.  We made mini apple pies, tomato pies, and chicken pot pie with a cheat recipe that turned out to be my favorite.

However in order to do all of this we needed to learn to make pie dough.

To do this you should use a food processor, but all I had was my refurbished Kitchenaid stand mixer but we made it work.

Making Pie Crust

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 cups of All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 2 1/2 sticks of butter (unsalted)
  • 1/4 cup of ice water
  • Procedure:
  • Slice butter into small pats and put back in the refrigerator to chill
  • Mix dry ingredients into food processor
  • Add chilled butter and process until the mix is combined and crumbly
  • Add ice water and process into dough
  • Remove dough and shape into a solid mass – don’t knead it
  • Wrap dough in plastic wrap (or beeswax cloth)
  • Let rest in refrigerator for an hour

That is all there is to it.

How To Make A Garlic Knot Pizza Bake

How To Make A Garlic Knot Pizza Bake

Garlic Knot Pizza Casserole
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Garlic Knot Pizza Casserole is a kid friendly recipe that my boy loves making more than he likes eating it.  Which is funny because he begs for pizza every night.  For some reason WT likes opening up cans of whomp biscuits.

This makes a pretty good supper for those nights that you want some comfort food but are tired and don’t want an involved recipe.

You don’t have to add as much topping as we did, and you can vary the toppings just like any pizza. However, you do want a liquid sauce on the top of the casserole as that helps the biscuits cook to the right consistency and texture.

Cooking with your kids is a pretty important part of parenting, at least in my mind.  It not only shows you want to spend time with them, it teaches cause and effect, math, following directions, and patience.

Garlic Knot Pizza Casserole

Ingredients:

  • Brown hamburger
  • 2 rolls of can biscuits
  • Maranara Sauce
  • Melted Butter
  • Cheese

Procedure:

  • Brown the hamburger
  • Mix marinara with the cooked hamburger
  • Add butter to bottom of pan
  • Cut individual biscuits into 4 pieces
  • Add Biscuit pieces to the pan
  • Add garlic powder to top of biscuits
  • Pout sauce/meat mix over biscuits
  • Add pepperoni
  • Add cheese
  • Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit

Enjoy

How to Make a Mini Apple Pie

How to Make a Mini Apple Pie

Mini Apple pie - My little Piemaker
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Today we make mini apple pie.  On a whim I bought the little pie maker set pictured here and started messing with making pie dough and lots of pies.  I am new to making pie crust, but I should have gotten into earlier as much as I like tomato pie.

My son was pretty exited about making mini pies, he wanted us to eat them up, but he had to give permission to specific people who could eat them.

This isn’t a recipe or a review, We are just showing the little silicon pie crusts and how they work.

I am sure that if you made a lot of pie crust you would make better pies than I do

This is a pretty cool thing to do with a kid, or if like me, your wife does not allow whole pies into the house due to being “non-supportive” of her diet.

But I will show you the apple pie filling:

Ingredients:

  • 1 large granny smith apple cored, peeled, and chopped into pieces
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
  • 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

Procedure:

  • Mix all the ingredients
  • Spoon into mini pies and fill about 1/3 full
  • Add egg wash to the top of the dough and then add the tops

How to Cook Fish in Parchment Paper

Easy 20 Minute Oven Baked Trout Recipe – How to Cook Fish in Parchment Paper

WT Cooking Trout in Parchment Paper
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I get to show you how to cook fish in parchment paper because William has been begging to go fishing.  We actually live pretty close to the famous Bucksnort Trout Ranch on Interstate 40 outside of Nashville.

I got him out of pre-school a little early and we went on a ‘venture.

We caught a couple of nice trout and got them filleted.

William was pretty excited to watch them get cleaned and would not stop talking about eating them.  If was adorable to watch him scrunch his nose and rub his hands together like he was some evil genius planning to take over the world.  Of course not long after we go on a canoe trip and he didn’t want to fish

Who knows that his 4 year old mind associated eating a fish with.

If you want to skip to the cooking, it starts at 1:20

How to Cook Fish in Parchment Paper

Ingredients

  • Trout
  • 1 cup of white wine
  • salt and pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Green beans
  • Sliced lemon
  • Dill springs

Procedure:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Cut parchment paper squares about a foot wide
  • Put olive oil on parchment
  • Lay out vegetables on the paper
  • Cover vegetables with a trout filet
  • Sprinkle oil over fish
  • Add salt and pepper to taste
  • Cover with a sprig of dill
  • Add a couple slices of lemon
  • Pour about 1/8 cup of wine over to add moisture
  • Fold the paper to make a steam proof container
  • Bake for about 25 minutes.

Cut and eat right out of the bag if desired.

How to install an AR-15 Dust Cover

 

How to install an AR-15 Dust Cover
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This AR-15 Dust Cover Install was not hard.  While I have made a bunch of AR-15 lowers, I never attempted an upper build because I thought it was hard.  Once I did it I found out it was pretty easy.

You don’t need much in the way of tools.  All you really need is a pair of needle nose pliers.

This is pretty simple, but it took me a while to get it just right.

The video was only 3 minutes, it took me about 15 in real life.

Parts for a AR-15 Dust Cover Install:

  • Stripper Upper Receiver
  • Dust Cover
  • Dust Cover Pin
  • C-Clip (its tiny buy a couple)
  • Dust Cover Spring

Make sure you line the spring up correctly as you put the pin in.  I found this to be the hardest part.  I used the needle nose pliers to hold the spring in the right orientation as I put the pin through.