Gluten-free Quick Puff Pastry and a delicious Tarte Tatin!

A buttery and beautifully layered puff pastry is the perfect canvas to the true stars in this classic French dessert: caramelized apples

Gluten-free Invisible Apple Maple Cake

It was a very busy weekend, and, inspired by the fall weather, I decided to use maple flavor and apples. Of course many were the jokes about the invisible apple maple cake, including the absence of calories for such a flimsy dessert. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the cake was all but invisible. From Bake from Scratch…

When I met my first pie, and I fell in love

Many years ago, even before I ever thought I could move to this country, my family and I stopped to visit some friends in New Jersey during our first trip to the United States. Mary Jo had met my father’s business partner some thirty years earlier, and they had stayed in touch all that time. She and her…