Nobody can teach the secrets to making a great pie (or pasta sauce, challah or soup) like your grandma (or uncle, mom, friend…) can. By watching their hands as they knead the dough or add a little more salt to the pan, you learn valuable lessons that a recipe alone cannot teach.

The makers of Real Meals TV have created a useful database of instructional videos that take viewers step-by-step through various recipes. Right before Passover, Jcarrot linked to their matzah ball segment. But I recently found another segment that I thought was worth sharing…

Chef Ron Silver is the owner of Bubby’s Pie Company, an Americana restaurant (not kosher) that specializes in comfort foods that are equal parts nostalgia and innovation. Bubby’s menu includes a long list of homemade pies including Mile High Apple Pie, Sour Cherry, and Chocolate Peanutbutter.

Like so many chefs and home cooks, Silver credits his mother’s innovation in the kitchen as well as her recipe box - which Bubby’s website describes as “full of traditional Jewish and American recipes” - as one of his early cooking influences. Honoring the lessons he learned watching his mother cook, Silver demonstrates how to make his blackberry pie for Real Meals TV. You can watch him as he cuts butter for the crust and stirs sugar into the blackberries (see the video still above) to make the thick, syrupy filling.

Just like Bubby used to make, and accessible to you through your computer screen.