For Christmas this year, my brother, mom, dad and I spent the day opening presents, listening to music, lounging about the house, and making...

Last week Erica (a.k.a. my awesome WXYC mentor DJ) and I got together to bake a tart. We settled on the classic French upside-down carmeliz...

I want to share a positively pleasant pie piece from the Chicago Reader's Cliff Doerksen , in which he explores the history of the weird...

Reporting from Boston, Jamie sent me this pic of a SCARY meat pie...notice the teeth! and BMPEZ (Breakfast Meat Pie Enjoyment Zone) the next...

The Davis-Dewald crew had another mellow Thanksgiving this year with new faces, babies and an all vegetarian meal gracing the table. We enjo...

Let's begin at the start of these tarts, which was for me, an apple picking adventure to Ayers Orchard in Cana, VA, the closest orchard...

Why choose when you can have both? It's the time of the year when we turn to pies of nuts, storage vegetables, and dried fruits. I want...

why, i never! but jill & co. did.

Welcome Steffen, a new Nothing-In-The-House correspondent who sent me this pie anecdote from his home in the Hudson River Valley (HRV) of Ne...

The Durham Food and Drink Club gathered for another bi-monthly potluck installment, this one with the theme of "Tiny Foods," which...

This can posed for me in the Rokeby back kitchen Generally I am an advocate of using whole, local, and fresh foods. Baking from scratch....

I've been baking pies since I was a wee lass, but it was only this fall that I took my skills to the next level: competitive pie. The pl...

Apple pies, apple tarts, apple butter, apple cider... it's been all apples all the time these days. At the end of fall when you are app...

Picture taken by an I-phone taking a picture of an I-phone taking a picture of an I-phone taking a picture of a Northern Spy Apple of My Ey...

Last Sunday I got home from brunch and the grocery store, all set to make pumpkin (actually butternut squash--the store had no pumpkin pure...

PUMPKIN WHOOPIE PIES with MAPLE-MARSHMALLOW FILLING  1 c. powdered sugar, sifted 1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 7-oz ja...

While browsing old folklore journals for an annotated bibliography assignment for my Folklore Theory class, I came across this brief article...

Though the weather has finally shifted here, and apple picking, pumpkin patching, and molasses-making excursions have been planned, I have b...