Milk Street’s Christopher Kimball is a wealth of information when it comes to cooking tricks and techniques. For this elegant, yet deceptively simple, late-summer vegetable tart, featured in Milk ...

Scarpaccia, a rustic Italian zucchini tart from Tuscany, is a true ricetta povera (literally ‘poor recipe") that uses no eggs, milk, or cheese. In the make-do peasant kitchen, cooks had limited ...

This tart is made from three easy pieces: a tart shell that is simpler than pie crust, more like one big shortbread cookie; a one-two pastry cream that makes instant puddings look turgid; and, ripe ...