S'mores or Spider Dogs? 🌭

What’s poppin? Okay so before we get into this thing, I have a question. If you had to choose between spider dogs or s’mores as your forever camp fire snack, what are you choosing? Tricky question to start your day, but we’re known for our hard hitting journalism.

Today’s read time: 5 minutes.

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Ingredients

Steps

1) Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2) Unroll 1 can Pillsbury crescent roll dough (8 oz) onto the parchment-lined baking sheet and press the seams together to form one sheet of dough.

3) Place your wheel of brie cheese (8 oz) in the centre of the dough. Spread 0.3 cups red pepper jelly evenly over the top of the brie.

4) Fold the dough up and over the brie, pinching and pleating the seams together at the top to fully seal it in. Trim any excess dough if needed.

5) Carefully flip the wrapped brie seam-side down. Whisk 1 large egg (for egg wash) with a splash of water and brush it evenly over the dough.

6) Bake until the dough is deep golden brown and cooked through, should take about 22m 30s

7) While it bakes, toast 0.3 cups pecans, chopped in a dry skillet over medium heat, stirring often, until fragrant.

8) Let the baked brie rest for 10 minutes, then scatter the toasted pecans and 1 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves on top and drizzle with 1 tablespoons honey.

Serve warm with 1 baguette, sliced and 1 apple, thinly sliced for dipping and scooping.

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The Cottage Almanac is coming up on it's first birthday, and a few days back we celebrated a very cool milestone 🎂

We are one of 65,000+ newsletters hosted on beehiiv. 65,000+ is not a small pond, and frankly - we are swimming around with some really BIG fish.

At the centre of all of this is our community. At the risk of sounding cliche, without your support none of this would be possible. Seriously.

Thank you for tuning in each week! If you have any feedback (we love the positive feedback, but we love constructive criticism just as much), feel free to send me an email at [email protected]

Let's see where another year takes us!

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Until next time,