Summertime is ripe for picking all kinds of fruits, and I circle my calendar each year with reminders to pick raspberries, blackberries, cherries, plums and peaches when they are in season. No summer ...

Amounts vary depending on the size of the tart or tarts you are making, your choice of fruit, and how generously you want to decorate your tart. Do not use any fruit that browns easily when cut (such ...

But the true gourmand cherishes with the magic of peak-season fruit, and summer’s sweetest of sorcerers are berries and stone fruits (such as apricots, nectarines, plums and peaches). Aside from being ...

In late October, I drove up north to visit my daughter and her family in Santa Cruz. After lunching downtown one day, Dinah and I walked over to the Museum of Art and History. She led me to her ...

Farmers markets across the country are putting out the season’s first strawberries, thin stalks of rhubarb, and early blueberries. California citrus is still plentiful and ripe. Here’s a show-stopping ...

These desserts to use those just-picked apples are a great way to bring that fresh orchard flavor into your kitchen. Whe ...

Dreams of flying speak to your ambition. If you dream of ghosts, you fear death. But what does it mean if the dream that haunts you and leaves you in a tearful sweat of panic every night is about ...

Expert Deutsches Haus volunteer baker Juanita Landau shared this recipe for a classic German dessert that can be made with any kind of fruit. The cornstarch amount in the cake is correct. Tart with ...

These adorable Mini Fruit Tarts are the perfect spring or summer time dessert. They start with sweet sugar cookie crusts and ...

What's in a name? When it comes to dessert it can be a lot, and nowhere is that potentially more confounding than with tarts and tortes, so close in sound but so different from what may confront you ...

Betsy Block's food writing has appeared in Gourmet and The Boston Globe. A mother of two, she looks forward to the day when she again has time to make puff pastry. She lives to eat in Boston. Last ...