When baked, the puff pastry turns crisp and golden, the layers separating just enough to cradle the spiced pumpkin filling.

For columnist Andrea McCoy, there’s always room for another pumpkin recipe. Flaky puff pastry pinwheels with pumpkin pie ...

Debating with myself whether to make a pepper steak or a steak and mushroom pie, I thought, well, why not incorporate both in ...

Thanks to store-bought dough and simple fillings, these ham-and-pimiento cheese hand pies are so easy to assemble that you ...

If you're anything like me, you've grabbed a package of frozen puff pastry from the grocery store, thinking you'll figure out what to make with it later, only to have it sit in the freezer for far too ...

Our daughter Alix used to call me for recipes; now I often call her. One of her favorite dishes is this easy and inexpensive tuna and tomato dish baked on a sheet of puff pastry and topped with cheese ...

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 people.

Get ready for bakery-quality pastries in minutes! Cut one package of puff pastry sheets into 6 rectangles (three per sheet). Next, drizzle honey on the baking sheet, spacing out honey drizzles to be ...

Last weekend, we left the city behind and drove about an hour south to my mother-in-law’s kibbutz to see the rolling fields of ripening wheat ready to be harvested just before the Shavuot holiday, ...