Move Over Pumpkin Spice Latte, You’ve Found Your Morning Match I love the crisp air and the smell of fall. There is always something baking and filling the house with its aroma. Pumpkin spices are my absolute favorite. The all-spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg are warm welcomes to the fall. They remind me of cooking in [...]
Creamy, Smoky, and Smooth – Thanksgiving Dinner Will Never Taste The Same Again! I bet you’ve always made a green bean casserole with a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup, right? Did you know that there’s a way to make that creamy, mushroom filling from scratch that tastes way, way better? My Uncle Ted [...]
This Twist On A Favorite Has Taken The U.S. By Storm My Aunt Carol loves to bake. My family always relies on her, every holiday season, to make the desserts for our holiday celebrations. I’ll admit that, lately, pumpkin pie around Halloween and Thanksgiving can get a little boring. How many pumpkin pies do you [...]
In The Morning, For Breakfast Or In The Evening, For A Snack It has been a very long time since I indulged myself in the type of lazy Sunday morning breakfast where you drink a leisurely cup of coffee or tea, read the Sunday paper and nibble on coffee cake. I don’t know why this [...]
A Smashing New Thanksgiving Side Dish There are few things I love more than mac and cheese. It is my go-to comfort food, much to the annoyance of my doctor. I also am inordinately fond of all things pumpkin. Hmmm….what if I could somehow put these two favorites together? Surely the addition of pumpkin would [...]
Wait Until You Try This! This is the time of year when all thoughts turn to pumpkin! You will find “pumpkin spice” everything, from coffee to chili, everywhere you look. That is fine by me, I happen to love pumpkin everything! When I saw Julie’s scrumptious recipe for pumpkin bread with pumpkin buttercream frosting, I [...]
Good Gravy! This Is Not The Sauce Grandma Always Made! I get bored if I always have to eat pumpkin and squash like a dessert, slimed up with some sort of treacle, bedecked with marshmallows or swimming in butter and brown sugar. When fall rolls around each year, I am excited by these sweet applications, [...]
Vibrant Fall Veggies And Chicken Jaclyn is rapidly becoming one of my favorite food bloggers, as she continually creates interesting, nutritious and easy-to-prepare dishes, such as this one-pan seasonal treat. She is a woman after my own heart, when she says, “I love dinners where everything is cooked or baked together in one pan.” Not [...]
Best Little Fall Cookie EVER! Have you ever noticed that whenever you make something that calls for pumpkin puree, it NEVER seems to require that you use an entire can? So what, exactly are these commercial canners thinking you are going to do with these little dribs and drabs of pumpkin? Ta-Da! Laura’s great little [...]
Tired Of Thanksgiving Turkey? Try This Instead! Holidays can be needlessly stressful. There are times when putting on the whole big Thanksgiving feast is just too much bother, too much stress, or just not necessary because there are only a few people (maybe just you, even – that’s fine, too) that plan to attend. Let’s [...]