If you were dining at the home of an aspiring Los Angeles hostess in 1930, you might have been served smoked salmon appetizers (strips of salmon rolled “around a midget sweet pickle in the form of a ...

Pecan Pie Bars with a buttery shortbread crust, sweet brown sugar coating, and toasted pecans. All the flavor of pecan pie in ...

Shortbread is ridiculously easy to make and despite being made from a limited number of inexpensive ingredients, the dough can be transformed into a seemingly endless number of variations. Powdered ...

Like many people these days, I am disillusioned by the divisiveness, hatred and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately attitude that’s rampant these days. A week ago, some of my faith and optimism were ...

So, What’s the Best Lemon Bar Recipe? Melissa Clark’s lemon bars were the absolute best. Her shortbread crust was both snappy and tender while the addition of olive oil and sea salt lent the sliceable ...

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Instructions for crust: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line the bottom and sides of a 9-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan with nonstick foil, extending the foil beyond the edges of the pan. In a medium bowl, with ...

Garten demonstrated how to make her apple pie bars on an episode of Barefoot Contessa. “My apple pie bars are kind of a mashup between apple pie and shortbread bars,” she explained. “What’s even ...

Picking blueberries is high on my summer bucket list. That list also includes cooling myself off in as many Vermont rivers as I can. A recent visit to Covered Bridge Blueberry Farm in Underhill ...

Is your refrigerator packed with half-consumed jars of jam, jelly and preserves? At my house, it’s pretty much an occupational hazard. Even just writing about three products at a time for the Stock Up ...