Bake your favorite pie crust naked until light brown, then cool until room temperature. Refrigerate over night and bring to room temperature.

Dried apricots are cooked with water to form a thick "stew" then baked between 2 layers of dough.

This is my favorite "easy" quiche recipe that uses bacon, cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses, canned green chiles and scallions, eggs and half and half.  I typically "short cut" the time by using a fro

Recipe for Banoffi Desserts, pies and pastry.

Fabulous summer dish. Use your own tomatoes out of your garden!!

The tart crust is a mixture of butter, sugar, flour and vanilla which is topped with fresh raspberries and a light custard.

Recipe for Butternut Squash Pie

This recipe is similar to a creme brulee in a tart shell

Chocolate cream pie with macadamia nuts and a chocolate crust.

Recipe for Chocolate Mousse pie made with silken tofu.  This pie is excellent and contains no dairy in the filling.

This is a great recipe from Bon Appetite, 1992. It's very impressive looking and tastes terrific.

Recipe uses chocolate, eggs, cocoa nibs and chocolate.

A Mediterranean recipe for a savory Easter pie made with layers of puff pastry, Swiss chard, eggs, ricotta, cream and marjoram.

From Le Mouton Noir, Saratoga California, 1987. We believe the Pastry Chef at the time was Jan Phillippi.

This flavorful Key Lime Chiffon Pie uses fresh key limes, gelatin, eggs yolks and egg whites piled into a graham cracker crust.

Easy to make recipe for Key Lime Pie uses fresh Key Limes and sweetened condensed canned milk. Includes calorie/nutritional information.

Swedish pastry called Mazarin made with an almond sponge baked in a buttery crust.

A favorite Easter dessert is this Lemon Almond Tart

A light pastry dough made with whole wheat, white flours, oil, butter and a small amount of sugar.

A macadamia nut crust to use with your favorite pie like macadamia nut, chocolate or coconut cream pies.

This pie filling uses mayhaw jelly and is topped with a simple meringue.

Easy and quick, this creamy pie incorporates the flavors of cinnamon and chocolate.

Recipe features Sunkist Mexican (key) limes.  The pie is prepared in a graham cracker crust.

This marvelous fluffy pie has an oat crust and uses the sweeter tasting Meyer lemon for the filling.

From Dulce: Desserts In The Latin-American Tradition by Joseluis Flores this yummy dessert made with passion fruit puree, sweetened condensed milk, eggs and butter.

Many of us who have had pumpkin chiffon pie can never go back to the traditional version. This is a light fluffy pie with the same spicy pumpkin flavor we are all accustomed to.

Recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Pie topped with almond strussel.

This version of a Southern classic is served up at The Ham Shoppe in Valle Crucis, North Carolina.

This is a simple "assembled" dessert that uses premade pound cake, fresh juicy watermelon, vanilla ice cream and strawberry syrup.  What a way to chill out on a hot summer day.