pie and pastry

Cherry Pie is quintessentially summer on a plate! If all you’ve ever experienced is canned cherry pie filling in an insipid, limp…

Last October, entrepreneur Judith Mackin created and organized a fund-raising event for the Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation called OH! CHAIR-ITY! She…

My grandmother’s pumpkin pie was legendary. Her crust was crisp and flaky. The filling was thick, creamy and heavenly spiced. Every Thanksgiving…

My love language is food. What’s yours? Saturday, while I was preparing food, I thought about how much I enjoy cooking. Every…

Time to shed my city clothes. For the next few months, my kitchen whites and clogs will be replaced with overhauls and…

Sugar Pie; the quintessential Canadian spring time pie. I read somewhere that sugar pie or tarte au sucre is as old as Canada.…

Pastry claiming to be flakey and fail-proof sound fishy to you? Me too, until I tried this oh-so-awesome recipe. It’s not often…

Are you one of those people who throws fruit in the garbage when it starts to over ripen? You know; bruises easily,…

APPLE TARTE TATIN should be easier than pie… Whenever I neglect to pay attention to the details of someone else’s recipe, I…

When the girls were little one of their favourite Disney movies was the Lion King. Lessons learned from that movie became mantras…