Sometimes you feel like you can't win with people. Take kitchen shortcuts, for example. You suggest a shortcut or store-bought item to make a dish easier or faster, and you get dinged by purists ...

Frozen pie crusts are the unsung heroes of my kitchen adventures. Even professional pastry chefs admit to keeping these ...

Frozen puff pastry serves as a crisp, flaky topping for the savory and warm chicken breast filling. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement. View Recipe. Puff-Pastry Cannoli Cake.

Right now, at the peak of the holiday party season, there are three things the well-prepared host ought to have at the ready: a swanky outfit, a festive playlist — and a package of puff pastry.

You're one frozen box away from a party. I would even go so far as to say that if you have a box of frozen puff pastry, you can have a party, no other information needed.

Sometimes you feel like you can’t win with people. Take kitchen shortcuts, for example. You suggest a shortcut or store-bought item to make a dish easier or faster, and you get dinged by purists ...

Puff pastry makes great tarts, turnovers and more. (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post; food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post) Sometimes you feel like you can’t win with ...

Even experienced bakers can struggle with puff pastry, but, thankfully, the store-bought stuff can be just as good, or better. Use it to make tarts, turnovers, cookies, elegant hors d’oeuvres ...