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Get your big and little spooks and goblins warmed up after trick or treating with this healthy, vegetarian pumpkin soup from Golden Door Executive Chef Curtis Cooke. Not only is this a perfect Meatless Monday dish, but it would also make a wonderful Thanksgiving meal starter. See my Four ways to cook a fresh pumpkin [...]
We’re getting the house we’ve lived in for 11 years ready to be put on the market. After the movers left Tuesday (we’re putting most of our stuff in storage so the house looks larger and can be “staged”) I’ve been in a complete funk. All I’ve wanted to do sit in bed, watch The [...]
Now that you have cooked and pureed your pumpkin, Chef Kristina Vanni has created this unique and easy-to-make pizza dish perfect for fall football parties or family pizza night. This is also a great recipe to make when you have leftover pumpkin puree and chorizo (from making my chorizo stuffing) after Thanksgiving. Pumpkin-Chorizo Pizza Serves [...]
We’ve been having unseasonably warm weather here in Colorado. So it’s only when I go to the store and see the pumpkins that I’m reminded that it’s fall and Halloween and Thanksgiving are just around the corner. Chef Kristina Vanni, a food writer and on-camera talent for BetterRecipes.com, sent me some tips on how to [...]
You may be familiar with Food Network’s Claire Robinson and her show 5 Ingredient Fix on Food Network. She’s just come out with a new book called, what else, 5 Ingredient Fix: Easy, Elegant, and Irresistible Recipes. While it’s not a healthy cookbook per se, I’m intrigued by anything that makes cooking from scratch convenient [...]
For those lovers of everything vintage, Jam Handy! is your type of cooking blog. Written by Kirkkitsch, a 30-something blogger out of Arlington, Texas, Jam Handy! is a gold mine of old recipes, magazine ads, and vintage cookbooks. Kirk faithfully scans the ads and cookbooks and documents the year. I really appreciate the effort and [...]
I think this is the start of an season full of pumpkin and squash cooking, since all the October foodie magazines are full of pumpkin and squash recipes. As faithful reader, Michelle D. writes: We have a Friday tradition of making a gourmet dinner every Friday night. I guess it makes us feel grown-up! I [...]
Our final contenders for the pumpkin pie contest are Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Rum Cream from the December 2004 issue of Healthy Cooking magazine and One-Bowl Pumpkin Pie from the November/December 2004 issue of Weight Watchers Magazine. Healthy Cooking is a wonderful magazine that unfortunately is hard to find and doesn’t have much of a [...]
After searching all the cooking magazines’ Thanksgiving issues, I realize that pecan pie is almost as traditional as pumkin pie. Now I love a good pecan pie, but I like pumpkin pie, too. So maybe a compromise between pumpkin and pecan pie is needed. Thus our second contender for the pumpkin pie contest, Pecan Pumpkin [...]
I’ve been searching for good pumpkin pie recipes in all the Thanksgiving cooking magazines. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that Food & Wine and Martha Stewart Living magazines don’t have any! Sacrilegious! Isn’t there some kind of law that says you must serve pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving or you’ll be banned from future family [...]
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