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.

Puff pastries are the ticket to easy, beautiful dishes, but the fragile sheets of dough can be finicky to handle. With the countless ways to use puff pastry, it can pay off to learn how to master the ...

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 ...

For one second, pretend that frozen puff pastry isn’t a gift from the heavens. Yes, it’s a time-saving kitchen shortcut for all kinds of recipes; from party-worthy appetizers to impressive-looking ...

To reheat treats like puff pastry pie crust without it getting soggy or losing its distinct laminated dough layers, even heat ...

Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

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 ...