Pizza Rolls, Pot Pies, and Pop Tarts…or the Three P’s of Bake Sale

Okay, technically the pizza roll was really a Southern Italian specialty called the n’figgiulata or as my friend and former coworker Maria affectionately called “n’figgy”–a Vivande Porta Via catering menu staple. In trying to describe what the n’figg was to bake sale customers, I invariably resorted to calling it a big pinwheel pizza roll stuffed…

A Tale of Two Doughs

I’m not exactly sure what came first, my craving for chicken pot pie or desire for some flaky pastry.  Or maybe the chicken pot pie filling was just an excuse to make my favorite cream cheese dough?  All I know is I was standing at my frig sizing up my options, pleased to discover I…