When I was a kid, I liked to dip fresh strawberries into a little bit of sugar before I ate them. When they were still damp from being washed, the sugar clung perfectly to the berries and having a little bit of sugar made not-quite-perfect berries taste amazing. I didn’t use a …
Grapefruit Meringue Pie
When it comes to citrus, I reach for lemons, limes and oranges for juicing and for baking. They’re probably the most popular citrus when it comes to cooking, although the order in which you prefer them varies from person to person. One of the more often overlooked citrus fruits is the grapefruit. …
Deep Dish Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken pot pie is comfort food, no doubt about it. As with all types of comfort food, everyone has their own way of making it – and there are tons of freezer-read options available that try and entice people not to make it themselves. Chicken pot pie is definitely worth making at …
Plum Pie
One of the things that appeals to me so much about pie is that they are both incredibly versatile and incredibly familiar at the same time. You can put just about any kind of fruit into a pie, from apples to pineapples, and still enjoy a sweet …
Double Citrus Key Lime Pie (baked)
Key lime pie is such a great way to use up a few limes. The standard key lime pie filling only really has three ingredients, and since it’s usually poured into a graham cracker crust, using a ready-made one brings the time required to make the pie down to almost nothing – …
Blackberry Raspberry Pie
I have a lot of berries in my freezer, frozen when they were ripe and fresh this past summer (and some in bags from Trader Joe’s, too). Frozen berries work just as well in recipes as fresh berries, especially in breads and muffins where they’re stirred into batter individually. When you’re dealing …
Buttermilk Sweet Potato Pie
As Thanksgiving approaches, I always begin to wonder how I can put a little twist onto one of my favorite traditional recipes to make holiday dinners a little more interesting. A good example of this is baking a chocolate pumpkin pie instead of a more traditional one, or turning the …