Fruit cake made with raisins on a wooden board - Cris Cantón/Getty Images Whether you're baking cakes, muffins, or cookies, adding some fruit is a delicious way to boost both the taste and texture.

Dried fruits are hailed by many as a quick and healthy bite for this "on-the-go" world. But hidden sugars and high prices are less than ideal. So we tried our hand at making healthy dried fruits at ...

One fine way to smuggle some of summer into winter is to cook with dried fruit. Sunshine is packed into dried apricots, grapes (raisins), dates, currants, figs, plums (prunes), any number of both red ...

Tagliatelle with mushroom ragu is a delicious example of Northern Italy’s knack for turning simple ingredients into something ...

Every week, Express-News Taste writer Paul Stephen cooks several recipes for his job — often creating his own in the process. Cooking with Paul chronicles what he learned each week from that process.