If you’re a fan of toast or PB&J sandwiches and you’ve never had apple butter before, you’re missing out! It’s like super-concentrated, creamy applesauce. It’s sweet, full of spices, and perfect on toast, rolls, or vanilla ice cream. It’s been a favorite spread of mine since I was a kid, and the best way to
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Normally, I either make applesauce in a pot on the stovetop or in my crockpot. This time, my slow cooker was busy making apple butter (that recipe is coming later this month), so I decided to give this approach a go. Now that I’ve given it a try, it’s going to take a lot of
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I’ve been going through the Harry Potter book series lately, and, on several occasions, pasties are mentioned. I had no idea what a pasty was, so I looked it up one day, after hearing about pumpkin pasties for the second or third time. They’re hand pies, which I had heard of before, but which I had
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Hello, hello! Thank you, dear readers, for being so patient. It’s been a busy season with work and stomach bugs and grandparents moving from one living space to another. Thanks for bearing with the delay.  By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of my terrible history with apple desserts. Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to
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Ahh, fall. The season of apples, brilliant foliage, corn mazes, and hayrides. My favorite season. It’s the time of year when the air grows crisp and cool, the days grow shorter, and the nights are chilly enough for warm blankets. It’s also the time of year, at least where I’m from, when everybody and their
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It’s that spooky time of year again where, for one night, you get to be whatever you want to be, and what better way to play pretend than with a group of friends at a Halloween party? I’ve got a party tonight, and, as a guest, I decided to bring a dish to pass. When
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I’m in a goofy mood, and the squash recipe I want to make will take longer than I have, tonight. So, instead, I’m going to provide you with a strange little editorial about pumpkin spice. For some reason, people seem to be obsessed with pumpkin spice. There’s the normal pumpkin-spice latte that every white girl
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As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve developed a bit of a soft spot for recipes that repurpose crescent rolls. This time, I decided to be a little adventurous. I have a bad history with apple pies of any kind, but these little beauties turned out to be absolutely perfect. They were sweet,
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This weekend, I decided to do some baking for a party. Since my specialty is desserts, I decided to take the sweet and easy route and make some pumpkin brownies. The original blog from which I got this recipe mentioned that the brownies would not taste like traditional brownies, because they are made with pumpkin
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I know it’s not the season for pumpkin things, but I ended up with leftovers from the dog treats, so I decided to make myself some treats with the extra pumpkin. Originally, I was planning to make gnocchi, but I was missing some of the ingredients, and they weren’t cheap or readily available, so I
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