by Helen Kain | Jul 30, 2023 | Foundation Recipes, Pies & Tarts, Recipes By Type
Used in place of shortcrust pastry, Cream Cheese Pastry crust takes the flavour profile up a notch or two. It’s not only for pies or tarts but is delicious all on its own. It makes a loose, relaxed dough that won’t hold up under too much handling, but it’s perfect for...
by Helen Kain | Aug 21, 2022 | Pies & Tarts, Recent, Summer Recipes
Plums are the perfect fruit pie filling with their firm, tart flesh, easily separated from the delightfully small pit. When you’re preparing fruit, it’s good to have a high fruit-to-stone ratio! This recipe is further enhanced by the single pastry crust...
by Helen Kain | Jun 19, 2022 | Pies & Tarts, Recent, Summer Recipes
Fresh, local summer fruit is beginning to appear at the farmer’s markets, but not fast enough to furnish a fruit pie, so I tapped into my stash of Trader Joe’s frozen mixed berries and cherries. I had a hankering to play around with a complex latticework...
by Helen Kain | Jul 28, 2021 | Desserts, Pies & Tarts, Summer Recipes
I’m always eager to use up the excess egg yolks that are the inevitable byproduct of making Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing (always much in demand around here). Unlike egg whites, yolks don’t freeze as well, I had a bag of Trader Joe’s mixed berries...
by Helen Kain | Aug 16, 2020 | Desserts, Fall Recipes, Fall Tablescapes, Holiday, Pies & Tarts, Pink and Red, Summer Recipes, Summer Tablescapes
“Apples, Peaches, Pears and Plums, tell me when your birthday comes!” Does anyone else remember jumping rope to that rhyme? It often pops into my head in late summer when overflowing farmers’ markets send me scurrying into the kitchen, eager to...
by Helen Kain | Jul 23, 2020 | Desserts, Pies & Tarts, Summer Recipes
Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Oh, where have you been, Charming Billy? I have been to seek a wife, she’s the joy of my whole life But she’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy? Can she...