There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
1) Serious Eats has a pretty good "easy" pie dough crust that I tend to default to (though it requires a food processor): http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/07/easy-pie-dough-recipe.html
2) Game changer for me was rolling out the dough between two big sheets of parchment paper - it is such a good idea on so many levels. You don't have to flour any surfaces which means you don't dry out the dough, you don't make a huge mess with flour everywhere in your kitchen, and you can peel off the top sheet and easily transfer the crust to wherever you want it.
3) Assuming you've let the dough chill for an hour (or overnight or whatever) before rolling out, give it a couple of minutes out of the fridge before you start rolling. And go slowly when you start rolling out - and recognize that the dough will crack, but you can always push it back together.