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I can’t believe it took me so long to discover free-form tarts, but thanks to Food & Wine, I did and I’m hooked. This recipe is for a blueberry flavored one, and as the name implies, there’s no tart pan, pie shell or anything to hold it together other than pastry, which in this case [...]
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This weekend I had dinner at a Cuban restaurant in Atlanta. The dessert offerings were key lime pie and mango pie, but it was one of those dinners where everyone eats so much that by the dessert hour, no one really cares about it no matter how enticing it sounds on the menu. But …
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Louise loves baking with rhubarb, but she knows I’m not a fan and offered to write a guest post for her fellow rhubarb lovers. Since I couldn’t decide what to bake this weekend, I took her up on the offer and am now happy to share this recipe Louise put together last week. For this [...]
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I’ll take whatever compliments I can get, but yesterday I got the ultimate. Or at least the pie did. Todd said this one, adapted from Pies & Tarts (Maida Heatter Classic Library) was the best he’d ever eaten. It was a nice surprise because I was a little worried this pie wouldn’t work out. Unlike [...]
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Yesterday we drove our baby to the hill country and left her in the hands of young women with names like “Skipper” and “Snoopy”. Yes, Fuzz has gone to camp for the first time. It was hard saying goodbye, but I think she’ll have more fun riding horses and swimming then sitting around the house [...]
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During our Disney trip, I kept thinking about blueberry pie. If I’d had the ingredients I would have baked one right there in the hotel room. It did have a full kitchen that was a bit nicer than the one I’m in now, but we had no car and were limited to the groceries we [...]
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November isn’t cherry season, but you can still serve cherry pie in the fall. The trick is finding a recipe that makes good use of the alternatives – canned and frozen. Mixing cherries with raspberries is one way of making a canned cherry pie more exciting. While you won’t get the firm …
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Every once in awhile, and for me almost never, a recipe comes along that’s so good you can close the book, put it some place safe, and never worry about finding a better version. It happened yesterday with this prize winning apple pie. I got the recipe from AJ at The Disney Food Blog, where [...]
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