countdown to halloween: ghosts of halloween past

Each year, I try to serve up something creative for dinner on Halloween night. Creative, but simple. This mummy calzone (looking rather bore...

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outside my skill set

I know my limits.  I've learned them the hard way.  Through countless Halloween seasons of futilely attempting to duplicate pictures of ...

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a little light reading

Admittedly, I have a weakness for magazines at this time of year. And it doesn't take much to reel me in. Just put a pumpkin on the cove...

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countdown to halloween: cookies!

So after a weekend of prop enhancement and yard set up, I'm settling in for a Sunday evening of Halloween Countdown blog reading and pum...

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resistance is futile

I seriously considered not buying any Halloween magazines this year. Really. Each year, they seem more and more like a regurgitation of old ...

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pumpkin cake

My mother loved to bake. And I loved to eat what she baked. Most of it. Unless it was a new recipe she was trying out that involved veget...

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something old, something new

It's that time of year again.  When I begin to scan the magazine shelves regularly, looking for that first smiling jack-o-lantern starin...

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boo

I'll often see a recipe or a photograph in a magazine and think: "I must try that". But more often than not, I promptly for...

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pumpkin brownies

When I saw the photograph of the pumpkin brownies on the Streaming Gourmet blog a while back, I knew they would find their way onto my Octo...

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caramel apple redemption

Caramel apples and I have had a long and tortured relationship. Whether it's the actual apple covered in impenetrable candy or merely t...

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a good idea . . . in theory

Earlier this week I picked up what will likely be my last of this season's Halloween themed magazines. Unless Martha delivers something ...

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the pumpkin gourmet

Back in February, when I wrote my annual post about pancakes, I included a photograph I had stumbled upon of pumpkin pancakes complete with ...

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they're coming

A few more Halloween magazines have appeared. All food related. But after my first wild impulse purchase of the Pillsbury recipe booklet,...

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the horror of coleslaw

I was standing in line at the grocery store check-out and there it was. Perched between two similarly-sized booklets entitled Coca-Cola Re...

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pancakes not pumpkins

There is only one day each year on which I eat pancakes for lunch or dinner, rather than for breakfast. And that day is today. Shrove Tuesda...

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results may vary (part two)

When I began to gather my favourite Halloween recipes, I didn't realize it would become such a sentimental journey down memory lane. Or...

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results may vary

While scanning through old magazines for favourite Halloween recipes to add to my shiny new recipe box, I came across one that I tried last ...

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sidetracked

The title of this post is misleading. I haven't really gotten sidetracked. I've just . . . remembered a project that I had planned ...

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just one more

I think I have a problem. I have just returned from Superstore with yet another container of President's Choice Key Lime Sherbet. I fea...

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candy pie

Leftover Halloween candy still hanging around? Miniature chocolate bars got you down? Not sure what to do with all that candy corn? Worry n...

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