Dinner with Jennie and David. Onion bread and a butterscotch pie from Mario Batali. I had several issues with this pie: who thinks you can fully blind bake a crust in 12 minutes? Plus it didn't fully set up. There was no salt or vanilla in the recipe which maybe was meant to showcase the butterscotch taste? But would have been bland. It just felt poorly written. The final problem was my own fault because I added a bit of molasses (to bump my light brown sugar up to dark) and the flavor sort of hijacked the pie. I probably won't make this version again and my search for the best butterscotch pudding goes on.
Also, cheese wafers from the Dorie cookbook. Perfectly tasty but not revelatory. Maybe I haven't made the best choices but nothing from the book has blown me away yet.
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