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My Apple Pie Secrets Revealed 🥧 🤫

My Apple Pie Secrets Revealed 🥧 🤫

Plus: Timing a Dinner Party, Spiced Spatchcocked Chicken, and a Solo Dinner at Buvette.

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Sep 25, 2023
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Hey everyone,

I’ve been making apple pie for a long time now. At the beginning, I struggled; then I studied at the hands of a genuine apple pie guru, Steve Johnson, who also happens to be my husband’s dad. Ever since, I’ve been a fairly confident pie maker and now that it’s officially fall and rainy and we’re all stuck inside (at least here on the east coast), you have no excuse not to make an apple pie. Just look how pretty my finished apple pie looks on my cake stand:

So what’s my recipe? I have it memorized. But, if you ask me, it’s really all about the technique….

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