Pie-Making Resources for Home Bakers of All Levels
If you should leave Hilton Head Island, take route 170 toward Beaufort, cross the Broad River and keep heading out toward the water, pulling off to the right before you reach the Shrimp Shack on St. Helena’s Island, you’d find yourself at Dempsey Farms, one of the Lowcountry’s premier pick-your-own-produce destinations. At least, that’s where [...]
Okay, so I get that Cinco de Mayo was a couple of weeks ago now… And, yes! - the day we celebrate Mexican heritage and pride certainly would have been the perfect occasion to trot out this recipe and serve alongside your frosty Coronas and guacamole. But it’s not too late. The Preakness – the second [...]
I know very little about horses and even less about the sport of horse racing, but that never stopped me and my wife Bev from attending what used to be one of the biggest steeplechase races in Maryland – the Marlborough Hunt Races held in Davidsonville, outside of Annapolis. At least, they called it a [...]
Every once in a while I’ll give a talk, or have a conversation with someone, or read an email and I’ll hear a question that goes something like this: Do you ever get tired of making pies? I like that question. It’s a good question. And it raises an interesting point: If you love what [...]
As you know, Sunday is Easter, a day when consuming obscene amounts of chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies, and the like is downgraded to a misdemeanor as we indulge our collective passion for chocolate. What better day, then, to try this Chocolate Cream Pie with Oreo Crumb Crust? If you’ve never made a cream pie before…or [...]
When you’re the Dean of The Pie Academy and avowed champion of all things pastry, certain people aren’t shy about letting you know when your good graces are expected. Take, for instance, this email I received the other day from one of my sisters, whom I’ll call Joanne since that’s her name: It’s Joe’s birthday [...]
Keep Your Pie Filling Where It Belongs with This One Simple Trick. You know how pie recipes often ask you to partially prebake the crust – mine certainly do – when you’re making custard, pumpkin, and other pies with runny fillings? When it’s necessary, prebaking is an excellent idea. But in the process you wind [...]
Let’s talk about dates, the sort that has nothing to do with meeting your soulmate online. More to the point, let’s talk about Medjool dates because unless you’ve had the good fortune to sample these plump, soft, and exquisitely sweet “king of dates”, well, you just haven’t lived. According to an article on NPR’s website, [...]
The other day I was surfing around online while I should have been working, when I stumbled across a blog post – by a guy whose writing I admire – titled 33 Things You Don’t Know About Me. My curiosity got the better of me. So I took the bait and read all 33, which [...]
So, what are you doing for your Valentine on Thursday? Candy? Flowers? A romantic candlelight dinner? Whatever your plans, I hope there’s room for this decadent pie. It would be the perfect way to cap off a day of loving gestures. And your beloved will be smitten. (As if you could go wrong with any [...]