This week's challenge on Baking with Julia was Savory Brioche Pockets. For the full recipe and many pretty pictures head on over the the challenge's host, Loaves and Stitches.
I enjoyed making these little pockets full of yum, though they are a bit labor intensive with the brioche dough. I planned a head this time and decided very early on to tweak the recipe more to our liking. I love asparagus, but not everybody in my family can or will eat it. Therefor it was time for a bit of substitution.
Spinach came to mind, I could promote the pockets as a sort of spinach pie. So I blanched the spinach and used roughly a heaping tablespoon per pocket. The end result was quite good even with my forgetting to add the chives (and dang it I was looking forward to cutting back my seemingly immortal chives), all it needed was an extra bit of salt. I don't know if I'll make them again, the dough is a bit fussy, but they were a very tasty experiment.
5 comments:
It was a time consuming recipe. But look how great yours turned out...and I love the idea of spinach in them! If it wasn't for the TWD group, this is probably a recipe I wouldn't have tried on my own. But I'm so glad we did it. I think next time I would make the dough and freeze it and then when I felt like making them, the most time consuming part would be done!
Spinach sounds like a wonderful substitution. I have yet to make these - hopefully soon!
Spinach sounds like a great idea, I used apples instead, which worked surprisingly well.
Spinach sounds like a lovely variation and they look perfect!
Lovely! They are quite a project, not an everyday recipe, but really yummy.
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