Every year during fall’s harvest my family pays proper homage to pumpkins. Before I spent dedicated time in the kitchen, that simply involved going pumpkin picking and carving pumpkins. Now that I’m cooking more, it means more pumpkin-based recipes! In fact, it seems we can’t get enough pumpkins. Within the past week we’ve made: Cappuccino Chip Pumpkin Muffins, Pumpkin Brownies, Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Bread. Tonight is Breakfast-for-Dinner Night – our favorite dinner of the week. I’ll never really understand the thrill my kids get eating … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2012
Video: How to Make Homemade Guacamole
October 22, 2012 By 12 Comments
One of my biggest aha moments in the kitchen was when I realized that I could make homemade guacamole for a fraction of the cost of the store-bought varieties AND, it tastes great! Once I learned what an avocado actually looks like and how to select the perfectly ripe fruit, I haven't stopped making batches of fresh, creamy guacamole. In fact, raid my kitchen any week and I've always got at least 4 ripe avocados on the counter top and another 3-4 unripe avocados ripening in a brown paper bag in one of our kitchen … [Read more...]
Spooktacular Halloween Candy Giveaway
October 19, 2012 By 167 Comments
What kid doesn’t love Halloween? For me, besides being able to stay up late and dress up in a costume, as a kid I was fixated on retrieving as much candy as possible from my trick-or-treat trail. I loved the after trick or treat candy categorization and trading session with my older brother and sister. Things always seemed to work out for everyone since each of us exhibited different candy cravings. Halloween was always that one night of the year Mom ignored the fact that we’d ingest more than 10x the normal amount of candy eaten in a … [Read more...]
Breast Cancer Awareness
October 18, 2012 By 2 Comments
I am taking a break from the normal recipe post. I couldn't let this symbolic month (Breast Cancer Awareness, Mom's intended 70th birthday, 4th Anniversary of Mom's death) tick away without talking about breast cancer. So, today you’re not going to get food but rather, food for thought. Do you know how much my heart breaks every time I look at Mom's familiar handwriting on all of her now-faded recipe scraps? With each written measurement and specified instruction, I reminisce about her hands: Always manicured. Always ready to … [Read more...]
