Depending on how you celebrate the holidays, you may have a favorite activity that just says “happy happy” or “merry merry” to you. Maybe it’s wrapping presents, having a snowball fight or counting ...

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 who ...

Discover three delicious breakfast tarts you can easily make with pre-made puff pastry. This video features step-by-step ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defrost those frozen pastry sheets to make everything from pizza to doughnuts. I recently found myself with leftover puff pastry ...

In this episode of In The Kitchen With Matt, I will show you how to make puff pastry from scratch. This homemade puff pastry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Puff pastry is made by rolling pastry with layers of butter to create a soft, crunchy texture when baked. Phyllo dough consists of ...

Puff pastry takes time, effort and skill, three things that can be in short supply for any type of cook. Puff pastry is exactly what it sounds like: Pastry that puffs into beautiful layers. It’s made ...

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.