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1 tablespoon snipped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme 2 ¼ cup all-purpose flour ¾ teaspoon salt ⅔ cup shortening 8 tablespoon cold water

To make this riff on a Baked Alaska, purchased sponge cake slices cover ice cream (deBoschnek uses Neapolitan here). This process goes pretty quickly in order to keep the ice cream from melting. That goes in the freezer while you prepare a meringue that will be baked to achieve a nice golden brown exterior.

2 cup finely crushed chocolate wafers, chocolate graham crackers, or other crisp chocolate cookies (about 38 cookies) ¼ cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoon sugar ½ cup melted butter Raspberry Ganache 1 cup chopped semisweet chocolate or chocolate pieces ⅓ cup whipping cream 1 tablespoon seedless raspberry jam

Test Kitchen Tip: Look for sea scallops at the fish counter which are larger and easier to grill than bay scallops.

That doesn’t mean you have to don a veil and set up a hive for honeybees; Rent Mason Bees has made it super easy to play host to gentle native bees that don’t need hives. The company will send you simple kits that contain all the supplies you need, which you then send back later in the season, so you don’t need to deal with maintenance. Rent Mason BeeRent Mason Bees will ship either mason or leafcutter bees to you....

1 ½ cup coarsely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese ½ teaspoon chopped fresh thyme ¼ teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper

¼ inch of the pointed top of 1 whole garlic bulb 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup finely chopped sweet onion ½ cup finely chopped Granny Smith apple ½ cup balsamic vinegar ½ cup sugar

Brad and Holly have revamped every house they’ve owned in their 15 years of marriage, tackling projects big and small themselves, with Holly serving as designer and Brad providing the building skills and brawn. “We never had it in the budget to pay out the things we wanted in our home,” Holly says. “If we wanted it to look a certain way, we were going to have to do it ourselves....