Category: Recipes

It's crunch time for Thanksgiving. You've probably planned your menu, done your shopping and begun cooking. All I can offer at this point is courage. Liquid courage. Chances are, at some point …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5196820175/" title="Pumpkin Pie 1 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5196820175_7049146db4.jpg" width="333" height="500" class="aligncenter" alt="Pumpkin Pie 1" /></a> My darling husband is not a picky man. He will cheerfully eat just about everything I …

I was very sad to have missed the summer jam season this year. With all the craziness around buying the house and moving, I never got around to putting up plum jam, or strawberry …

Fall themed desserts are all over these days - pumpkin bread puddings, cranberry panna cotta, pecan trifle. And those of us with a confirmed fear of rolling pins grasp at these desperately.  …

Despite having a decent reputation for cooking, a killer turkey recipe and not one but TWO autumnal table runners, I haven't hosted Thanksgiving since 2004, and I'm thrilled about that. One of the reasons …

As an adult, I am wary of jack-o-lanterns. You see, I had a traumatic jack-o-lantern experience in college, and I'm still suffering the psychological wounds. As a member of the Senior Class Council, …

Sugar cookies can be boring.  Essentially nothing more than butter, sugar, flour and eggs, sugar cookie recipes – even easy sugar cookie recipes – often call for elaborate decorations – piping, “flooding”, colored frosting and even …