by Helen Kain | Jun 19, 2022 | Holiday, 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, 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...
by Helen Kain | Jan 26, 2020 | Desserts, Fall Recipes, Pies & Tarts, Summer Recipes, Winter Recipes
Earlier this month, we invited some friends over for dinner at the Cape, and I wanted to make a dessert that was somewhat virtuous but with a hint of decadence. (The nearly universal donning of the January culinary hair-shirt gets a bit depressing). I thought about...
by Helen Kain | Nov 4, 2018 | Desserts, Fall Recipes, Pies & Tarts
This dessert is the perfect answer to that apple season conundrum: should I make an apple pie or a crumble? You can have both. In one dish! Flaky pastry crust encases a thick layer of Granny Smith apple filling, topped with crunchy oatmeal almond crumble. Add pastry...