Cream Biscuits

Cream Biscuits

What makes every Sunday dinner a little better?  Why biscuits of course! Sadly my parents were never big on bread at the dinner table, in any form.  It was not until adulthood that I realized I was missing out on those delicious dinner rolls, soaking 

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Every year when I was a little girl, my mother and great-grandmother would take me strawberry picking. I remember the joy of spending an afternoon under the warm sun, eating berries with their red juice dripping down my chin and sticking to my arms and 

The Great Canadian Butter Tart

The Great Canadian Butter Tart

There are fewer things more truly Canadian than a butter tart. For those of you who have not ventured to the ‘great white north’ and have not experienced the greatness that is a butter tart, they are sweet, gooey and delicious! They most closely resemble 

In Search of a Flaky Crust (aka The Secrets to Successful Pie Dough)

In Search of a Flaky Crust (aka The Secrets to Successful Pie Dough)

Have you ever felt that you had an Achilles heel in the kitchen? I consider myself an adept home cook, and yet for years I was woefully inadequate in a basic culinary skill: pie crust. It eluded me, it frustrated me, it caused me no