This year Chris and I did a little more Halloween decoration than usual. I had bought a couple of beautiful pumpkins a week ago, and made the mistake of leaving them out on the porch to be admired. Well apparently a couple fuzzy little black creatures enjoyed admiring them too. So I had to go…
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Pumpkin pie filling, from scratch
In all the years I’ve been exploring new recipes there’s one realm I’ve avoided nearly completely. Pies. I’ll make apple crisp, I’ll make graham cracker crusts, but pies? I think I’ve been long-scarred by a couple of early attempts at making crusts which failed miserably into disintegrated dough. And well if you don’t have a…
Fresh picked from the pumpkin patch
Our friend Cass says that someday when he buys a house, he wants to have a pumpkin patch. No amount of cajoling from Chris and I can convince him that you kinda need a field to have a pumpkin patch, that every reasonable gardener knows that you don’t just get “a” pumpkin from a patch….