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Five-Ingredient Chili
As colder weather rolls in, my kitchen starts filling up with heartier ingredients, and my cookbooks’ pages are marked and folded on chapters filled with recipes for stews, casseroles and warm baked goods. It’s funny how cuisine changes with the seasons, reflecting what grows that time of year, what is easy to prepare, what [...]
Revamped Popcorn: A Force To Be Reckoned With
Popcorn is one of the best-known cram-sesh snacks. I use it so much that after 30 minutes of studying, my hands start to gravitate towards a non-existant popcorn bowl in front of my textbook. Although delish, as my studying continues late night after late night, another bowl of popcorn becomes rather tasteless. It’s a great grab, but it tends to lose its zeal after a while
Hasty Halloween: Pumpkin Torte with Browned Butter Frosting
I didn’t think I was going to celebrate Halloween this year. It isn’t much of an issue at home – when it’s nice enough to revel in being cozy inside with family, and at least answer the door to miniature cowboys and excitable aliens – but in a dorm it’s depressing. I’ve missed out on [...]
5 Easy Recipes for Halloween Cupcakes
You don’t have to be a baking master in order to make some cool Halloween cupcakes or treats. You can keep things simple by using a box of cupcake mix and a tub of frosting or you can make everything from scratch. Either way, you are going to have some cool treats that will look good and taste even better.
No Bones About It: How To Make Creepy Meringue Bone Cookies
In honor of Halloween, today I am going to share a recipe for the perfect creepy treat for any Halloween party or get together. The attraction of these meringue bone cookies lies not only in their clever, spooky shape, but also in their delicious sweet flavor and chewy crunch. And the best part about them [...]
Breakfast Casserole: The Breakfast You Won’t Burn After 8 Beers
I don’t know about you, but for some reason when I’ve had a couple of drinks, breakfast food starts to sound pretty appetizing, and the morning after I’ve had my share of cocktails, it’s about the only thing that sounds appetizing. But cooking breakfast food at 2 a.m., after you’ve been drinking for hours, can [...]
Impress Your Relatives: Pumpkin Brûlée
My mother hates pumpkin pie. Every fall, one finds its way to her. Every fall, she takes a sizeable bite, convinced that this will be the year she moves beyond her issues with the pastry. In the past, I have watched her stick her head under the kitchen faucet, scrubbing her tongue and sputtering as [...]
Preparing for the Weekend: Pumpkin Pie Shot
In sticking with the pumpkin theme we have going on this week, I was trying to think of a recipe to start your weekend off with, something you could easily use for tomorrow’s tailgating festivities as well. And it was pretty clear what kind of recipe would be perfect for the weekend. So to start [...]
Plunging into the Fall Season with Pumpkin Bread
To me, the one thing that always signals the onset of the holiday season is the smell of goodies baking in the oven. And pumpkin is one of my favorite ingredients to use in the kitchen during the season. While most people automatically think of pumpkin pie, something else is on my mind. It’s [...]
Top Ten Refrigerator Do’s and Don’ts
When settling into school, my mom continuously versed me in how to properly store food. I received the ring around from everything from foods that spoil, foods subject to refrigeration and foods to toss within a week. All to my benefit though, as my room is free of those poignant moldy smells that seem to [...]
