Posts Tagged ‘Pumpkin’

Take it from someone who uses recipes like a cane as she limps her way through the kitchen: you don’t need a recipe to make chili. It’s just a mishmosh of ingredients thrown into a pot and cooked down until the feeling’s right.
It’s meant to be flexible and unfussy. Sometimes I brown some beef, sometimes [...]

Whoopie pies, of course. (Although Frank Sinatra has a cautionary message for all of you who took that to mean something else.)
Last week my sister and I stumbled upon something on Our Best Bites that took immediate priority over everything else in our respective lives. My sister and I were roommates for a few days [...]

Yesterday I bought 3 cans of pumpkin. That’s 87 ounces of canned pumpkin.
To avoid nosey questions from the Boyfriend about the necessity of $9 of canned pumpkin, I made him pumpkin pancakes. Can’t ask silly questions if your mouth is full of delicious pancakes, can you?
I also threw in some leftover ricotta I have from [...]

Tuesday was a bit of a life-ruiner today, no? Did anyone else have a bad day? I hate to be a grump, but it was one thing on top of another on top of another all the day long. Eesh.
As such, I’m not in the best mood and I’m not feeling the positive and calming [...]

Lately I’ve been eating a lot of meals on the go.  It’s been leaving a big hole in my stomach for something hearty and filling.
The ultimate comfort food to me is my mother’s risotto.  Good heavens, that woman can cook a risotto that tastes like pulling a warm blanket over you on a chilly afternoon. [...]