This savoury spinach and ricotta pie mixes soft ricotta cheese with fresh baby spinach on a bed of crunchy puff pastry and is not only delicious, it's also easy to make!

It was recently Mother's Day and that made me think of my mom and her fear of pie-ing. I also happened to be in the midst of the pie chapter in a massive tome of a vintage cookbook.

It works like magic.

It's not Thanksgiving without homemade pumpkin pie, but if you've ever tried to make one, you know it can be tricky. Whomever coined the term "easy as pie" had obviously never baked a pumpkin pie!