If your New Year’s Eve parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to ...

Right now, as the holiday party season continues, there are three things the well-prepared host ought to have at the ready: a swanky outfit, a festive playlist — and a package of puff pastry. But ...

If your parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to dessert tarts.

Sausage turnovers (aka pigs in blanket), foreground, are a step up from the usual when wrapped in puffed pastry. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS) If your parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry.

Right now, at the peak of the holiday party season, there are three things the well-prepared host ought to have at the ready: a swanky outfit, a festive playlist — and a package of puff pastry. But ...

If your parties can use a lift, reach for puff pastry. The dough, which rises spectacularly as thin leaves of delicate pastry, can be used for everything from cocktail nibbles to dessert tarts.

I remember the first day we made puff pastry in cooking school, when my teacher explained that it’s a laminated dough with 732 layers of dough and butter. The air rises as the dough heats up, creating ...

If you have a party and are looking for an eye-catching, tastebud pleasing, all-encompassing ingredient for your appetizers, look no further than frozen puff pastries. These wonderful frozen packages ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, I’m not talking about Christmas, which has its own charms, of course. I’m talking about prom, that night when high school kids pretend to be adults by ...