Can a pie crust recipe really change your life? I guess it depends on how much you like eating pie -- and how much you hate making crust. I really love eating pie, but I really hated making crust, at ...

For easy deadline cooking, the ethnic section of your grocer’s freezer aisle has a hidden gem — frozen empanada shells. These simple pastry disks (usually about 6 inches around) are intended to be ...

When I get back to teaching cooking classes, I want to teach tarts. As in pies, not strumpets. (Which leads me to thoughts of crumpets, also worth teaching.) But not pies, because too many people ...

Good things come in small packages. Filled with Greek yogurt, ricotta, strawberries, and chopped basil, these tarts have an unbeatable (and delicious) combination of healthy ingredients. Each ...

I love to make fruit tarts for the holidays. It provides relief from the puddings, pies, cakes and cookies. My favorite? A strawberry tart with a brushing of apricot jam over a pastry cream-filled ...

Combine the flour, sugar, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the shortening and butter to the dry ingredients in small bits and rub them in. (Alternatively, if you have an electric mixer, you can ...