Not too long ago I posted a recipe for Whole Wheat Pumpkin Oat Muffins. They were good, but had a lighter and chewier texture. What I was in the mood for the other day was a pumpkin muffin that had more of a cake-like crumb and consistency. I played around a bit and came up … Continue reading
There are many dessert recipes out there that call for using a boxed cake mix in the recipe. The problem that I have run into in the past has been that 1} I don’t have a boxed cake mix in the pantry or 2} I don’t have a boxed cake mix that is dairy or … Continue reading
Tonight I was making a meal for some friends who lost a loved one and was trying to come up with a quick and easy dessert. I remembered I had seen another friend on Facebook post a picture of a pumpkin dump cake they had made. I knew we had some canned pumpkin and a … Continue reading
I always remember what a special treat it was to have pumpkin bread when I was a kid, and I still love it to this day! Those memories, and my longing to continue with my pumpkin-baking-spree, prompted me to open up my “family cookbook” that one of my sisters made for the rest of us … Continue reading
I am sure this has happened to many out there who are reading this, as has happened to me a number of times before: I have a recipe that calls for pumpkin pie spice, but I don’t have any in the cupboard. Those times can be frustrating. Usually, the pumpkin pie spice containers that I … Continue reading
Today’s post is an addition to the Fall series that I am doing on using pumpkin. It seems like the everyone goes crazy for pumpkin when the air starts to cool and the leaves start to turn, and for some reason I am no exception. The oven has been turned off pretty much all summer, … Continue reading
Fall. Cool air. Soups. Pumpkin. All of these things were swirling around in my head one night recently as I was thinking about what to make for dinner. It all came together with this bold-flavored soup with a curry flare. I had no problem throwing the soup together with it’s many flavor-inducing components, but honestly … Continue reading
This past weekend I woke up and felt the crispness of the fall breeze coming through my open bedroom window and suddenly I had this incredible urge to make something very pumpkiny. I happened to have some frozen pumpkin puree in the freezer that I made last year, which ended up working out perfectly for … Continue reading
Cantaloupe. My family really enjoys this fruit with the sweet orange flesh and we’ve been waiting patiently all summer for the vines in the garden to give us some. I didn’t think it was very long ago that I wandered past the cantaloupe vines out in the garden and they didn’t seem quite ready for … Continue reading
I’m trying to break the mold a little bit of my standard go-to summer tomato canning recipes. I always make salsa and spaghetti sauce…which, don’t get me wrong, are great…but it’s like my cross country coach from high school once upon a time said, “Variety is the spice of life!” One of my favorite meals, … Continue reading
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