This year I went a little nuts and bought a bunch of canned pumpkin purée – and then never made pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving! (Though I did make Eggless Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies for my daughter, Lucie.) If you’re like me and have a few cans of pumpkin lying around you can make Healthy Slow [...]
Posted on December 6, 2012 in Books,Desserts,Gluten Free,Recipes and tagged as pumpkin
Do you have leftover cans of pumpkin from Thanksgiving? Use up a few in this gluten free soup recipe created by Jennifer Cafferty for San-J. For Meatless Monday, pair the soup with a salad and some nice bread. Also, if you or a family member has a food sensitivity to peanut butter, try sunflower butter [...]
Posted on December 3, 2012 in Gluten Free,Recipes,Soups,Thanksgiving and tagged as pumpkin
Last week, I cohosted the #PlainKitchen Twitter Party with Mom Central, FAGE and celebrity chef Bobby Flay to let everyone know about the FAGE Total Plain Kitchen recipe contest. One of the recipes that everyone was drooling over was the Creamy Pumpkin Soup with Cinnamon FAGE Total Crèma and Roasted Pumpkin Seeds. So I had [...]
Posted on October 5, 2012 in Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as pumpkin, soup
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 [...]
Posted on October 31, 2011 in Recipes,Soups,Thanksgiving and tagged as healthy Halloween recipes, Meatless Monday, pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on October 5, 2011 in Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as party food, pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on October 4, 2011 in Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on October 27, 2010 in Cookbooks,Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as healthy Halloween recipes, healthy snacking, pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on October 25, 2006 in Recipes,Thanksgiving,Weight Watchers and tagged as pie, pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on September 16, 2006 in Fish,Recipes,Veggies and tagged as pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on November 20, 2004 in Baking,Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as pie, pumpkin
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 [...]
Posted on November 18, 2004 in Baking,Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as pie, 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 [...]
Posted on November 17, 2004 in Baking,Recipes,Thanksgiving and tagged as pie, pumpkin
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