Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
November is spiced pumpkin month in my house! That means spiced pumpkin cakes in some form or another nearly every weekend. [I secretly prefer pumpkin cake to pumpkin pie! Shhhhh.] I have a few posts involving pumpkin: Spiced Pumpkin Bread Glazed Pumpkin Bundt Cake Pumpkin-Stuffed Coffee Crumb Cake Pumpkin-Chocolate Bundt Cake To bring variety to […]
Vegetables for Thanksgiving usually end up being some form of sweet potatoes, pearl onions, green beans or cauliflower, and one of my least favorite vegetables, Brussels sprouts. I’ve grown more fond of these little cabbages over the years, but they still are nowhere near my top ten favorite vegetables. However, when coupled with bacon and onions, […]
Growing up, if a dessert had nuts in it, I stayed clear away. A brownie or chocolate chip cookie with nuts was the ultimate disappointment. The nuts took space away from the chocolate, left a bitter aftertaste, got in between my teeth, weren’t soft and gooey–the complaints were many. As an adult, I still prefer […]
I have a recurring fascination with pumpkin. Some varieties can grow to be huge. And the smallest varieties are just plain cute. I have been to local fall festivals where tons of post-Halloween pumpkins that have been thrown away get to participate in the annual “pumpkin drop” and “pumpkin toss.” Statistics from the USDA show that in […]
I have tried to make successful corn bread several times throughout my life. Most of the time, this apparently easy bread just doesn’t turn out for me. For the past few Thanksgivings, I didn’t bother making it to avoid the embarrassment. Everywhere I read though, corn bread is supposed to be so easy that you […]