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A favorite in my family for many years is "Russian Meat Pie." I based it on "pirog," the large, and typically savory, baked pastry of Russia. Smaller pastries in that lineage sport the cool Russian ...

All last winter and into the spring and summer, my daughter Mandy, my son-in-law Tyrone, and I worked together on a new cookbook project. When the weather was too harsh for Ty to work outside, and ...