A quick and easy pumpkin pie with a gingersnap cookie crumb crust and a hint of maple! Pumpkin pie is one of my favourite holiday desserts and it’s so easy to make your own! Pumpkin pie is the pretty simple combination of pumpkin puree, eggs, cream and sugar along with the famous pumpkin pie spice...

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The easiest pecan pie ever, in the slow cooker! With a small, closet sized, kitchen one of the biggest difficulties that I encounter is holiday dinners like Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner! These big meals typically have a roast, several sides and a dessert each of which is contesting for oven or stove top space...

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An asparagus and mushroom galette (open faced pie) with a light and flaky crust topped with goat cheese, bacon and balsamic reduction. The local asparagus is finally here and I celebrated with this amazingly tasty asparagus and mushroom galette with bacon, goat cheese and balsamic reduction! A galette is a freeform pie where the crust...

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A pumpkin pie with not one but three kinds of chocolate! The final component of my Thanksgiving dinner was perhaps the most important part, the dessert, and this year I wanted to try something a little new, a chocolate pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie is often the dessert of choice for Thanksgiving and since chocolate and...

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This pie defines late summer with its juicy and tasty field ripened tomatoes, corn straight from the cob and fresh basil. Of course the bacon, mayonnaise and cheese don’t hurt either! 🙂 With fresh local corn in season I certainly have been enjoying a lot of it! In particular I have been making my favourite...

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A while ago I was brainstorming mushroom recipe ideas and one that particularly caught my attention was for a mushroom and feta phyllo pie. This idea was of course inspired by one of my favourite dishes, spanakopita, a Greek spinach pie . I envisioned the recipe as something along the lines of sauteeing some mushrooms,...

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Not too long ago I came across this truly inspired recipe for a savoury asparagus baklava on innBrooklyn that sounded so amazingly good that I just had to try it! This asparagus phyllo pie is constructed like baklava with layers of light, flaky golden brown phyllo alternating with the layers of a walnut and asparagus...

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Beets are another great winter vegetable and I don’t seem to have them nearly often enough. A couple of weeks ago I was at a restaurant near work, Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, and they had a lot of great sounding dishes using seasonal ingredients including a golden beet tatin served with salad greens and goat cheese....

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I have been wanting to try making a pastilla for a while now and when I saw a recipe for a chicken and date pastilla in this months Food & Drink magazine it was like fate as I still had a bunch of fresh medjool dates! A pastilla (aka bastilla, bisteeya, b’steeya, bstilla and b’stilla)...

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The reason that I was so enthusiastic about making the dulce de leche was that I had recently seen this recipe for a dulce de leche apple pie on The Cooking Photographer that looked so good. Caramel and apples go so well together and with the thought of a caramely dulce de leche apple pie...

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