Category Archives: Seasonal – Fall

Maple Pumpkin Butter

We’re back in the saddle with our monthly Really Healthy recipes over at The Magazine of Yoga and this month is the perfect way to throw a little balance into your turkey-filled Thanksgiving week.  A nice twist on your classic pumpkin butter.  No heat necessary – just … Continue reading

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Cinnamon Shortbread Sandwich Cookies with Pumpkin White Chocolate and Cream Cheese Filling

I knew I was setting myself up for a challenge after creating a title like this one.  What else could I possibly say after uttering the words pumpkin, cream cheese and white chocolate all in the same sentence?   Oh wait.  I forgot … Continue reading

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Marlys’ (Pumpkin) Carrot Soup

If you’re looking for a good and good-for-you soup to warm you up this holiday season, look no further!  Courtesy of my mother in-law, (shout-out to Marlys), I’m sharing the recipe with you here.

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Holiday Spiced Pecans

We’re starting off the Thanksgiving week on the right foot with this next little number.  Spice, spice, spice!  If the holiday season had a flavor, this would be it.  I make these every year for Thanksgiving,  just to have something to snack on … Continue reading

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Old Fashioned Pancakes with Caramelized Apples

Sometimes it’s the simple recipes that steal my heart.  The ones that are so classic, so familiar, just so…..right.  It’s a given that everyone loves pancakes (well, everyone who’s anyone).  And if you don’t, this is your chance.  For the love of … Continue reading

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Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Maple Brown Butter and Bacon

 A little sweet, a little salty and all around scrumptious, this dish was the perfect remedy to get me through the mid-week, time-changing, coat-wearing-weather blues.  Taking only minutes to cook, I make these delightful little dumplings often — usually with county ham & peas … Continue reading

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Apple-Cranberry Herbed Stuffing

As a home cook, there is one skill in the kitchen that I hold high above all the rest: resourcefulness.  Especially because I am from the Midwest, and I’ve been jaded by the significant difference in price at grocery stores. … Continue reading

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Sweet Potato Pie with Toasted Marshmellow Meringue

With the closing of October and the opening of life’s most mouth-watering chapter, I’ve got one thing — and one thing only – on my mind.  Roasted turkey,  herbed stuffing, tangy cranberry relish, sweet potato pie, and lots of creamy casseroles (one – it can be so relative sometimes, gah).  I don’t know about … Continue reading

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Pumpkin Bars with Penuche Frosting

Do you remember that time — oh, I don’t know, like two posts ago — when I boasted over my resolve for keeping the pumpkin seal intact?  Yeah, well it broke.  No, no, it wasn’t that same day.  It was the next day, and I am taking … Continue reading

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Frosted Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies

I’ve been waiting longer than usual this season to break the pumpkin seal.  I know that once I do, my life will  become crazed by pumpkin lattes, pumpkin bread, pumpkin pies, and maybe even some pumpkin-filled ravioli.  I’m not really sure what the … Continue reading

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