If you take your time melting the butter, spend significant time beating the eggs and send several text messages to your sister between those two tasks, you might be able to spend 15 entire minutes ...

When I married my husband five years ago, little did I know I would gain such an amazing family with quite a few talented cooks. My husband’s family has a tradition of gathering every year for either ...

What a lovely chess pie recipe! Perfectly sweet, smooth, and creamy, chess pie is a simple vanilla custard pie. It's uncomplicated and unsophisticated... and that's the beauty of the pie. Most chess ...

Lemon Cheese Pie gets its tang from fresh lemon juice and zest. (Food styling Judy Walker/Photo by Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com The Times-Picayune) Last weekend I was busy making several chess pies to serve ...

Knock the socks off your friends and family with this timeless classic of Southern baking, using just 10 ingredients or less. Unless you have roots below the Mason-Dixon, chess pie is likely an ...

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Chess pie is a classic Southern custard pie — known for a few distinct ingredients, all of which contribute to the beloved filling’s final texture. Chess pie recipes commonly use cornmeal as a ...

It’s the dead of winter, so it seems like a good time to discuss “desperation pie.” That’s a term I learned about earlier this year as I perused the fetching new “The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie: Recipes ...

It’s easy to confuse a chess pie and a buttermilk pie. Both are classic Southern desserts. Both are simple and homey looking with a single pastry crust and a creamy, pale yellow filling. But take a ...

To me, chess pie is an Oklahoma pie with definite Southern accents. For NPR's recent pie contest, I started with my mother's family recipe for Lemon Chess Pie — with a variation inspired by my Aunt ...