Pies News

The finished margherita pizza at Panino's Pizzaiolo - which has locations in Park Ridge, Evanston and Lake View - is impressive.

Erik Martinez, executive chef at The Orchard House, holds a full rack of baby-back ribs, left, and pan-roasted Atlantic salmon.

I'm continuously amazed by the opportunities I've had to find great eats in the most unlikely of places.

This week, 900 Degrees Wood Fired Pizzeria announced plans to open its second restaurant in the Brickyard Square shopping center at the junction of Routes 125 and 101.

In my mind's eye, my paternal grandmother is always in her large kitchen with its little green-and-white stove.

The annual event features tours in the one-room school house and Dr. A. L. Small's memorial home.

Summer fruit is beginning to come in, and the organic produce sections of the health-oriented markets are overflowing with their many crops.

The pizza at Santa Monica's Stella Rossa gets plenty of praise on Chowhound, and now Chef Jeff Mahin has opened a sister location in Hollywood dubbed Stella Barra Pizzeria .

Are you looking for a sweet treat but don't want to turn on the oven? Do you have little to no culinary experience? Maybe you like to cook, but are also intimidated or put-off by the ingredient lists and number of steps on foodnetwork.com or allrecipes.com. Icebox pies are perfect for summer get-togethers or just to have around as a treat.

For this breakfast dish fry some bacon and keep hot. Beat thoroughly one or two eggs, and allow to each egg one small tablespoon flour, 2 small tablespoons coconut, 3 tablespoons milk, a little pepper and salt.

Ask any good Texan about their state's most cherished pie and they'll most likely answer, "pee-can!" But now it's official.

Editor's note: Here to answer your questions is contributing writer, former managing and SENY editor, and frequent author of our NYC restaurant reviews Carey Jones .

Hopefully everything is just peachy on this Mother's Day wherever you are. Here in Ohio we are supposed get a bit of a frost tonight and then the weather is supposed to warm.

Clay's Family Restaurant along Lake George in Fremont, just a stone's throw away from the outlet mall, promises 'Good Home Cooking' and nothing tastes more like home than a delicious slice of pie.

You're the apple of her eye; why not bake Mom an apple pie? Besides, the smell of a freshly baked apple pie - there is no other aroma quite like it! While apple pies are probably more commonly thought of as a fall dessert, they are delicious and vivaciously welcomed anytime of the year.

This recipe is from the intensely talented fantasy author Stacia Kane , and is reprinted here with her permission.

There are plenty of pizza options in Chicago, but you could count on one hand the number of places using coal to cook their pies.

Mother's Day is this Sunday. If you've already taken care of a gift for your lovely life-giver, read on.

Freebies for Mother's Day are piling up for the taking today, as more and more businesses find a way to honor the mom's around the country.

A mobile wood-fired pizza oven will begin slinging gourmet pies on the Bangor Waterfront Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekly through the summer.