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Fallin’ For You (Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce)
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Pumpkin alfredo sauce, where have you been all of my life? I came up with this quick and simple dish after flipping through the latest issue of Food Network Magazine. For a couple of weeks, I’d routinely flip back to the same page, drooling over a photo of tortellini bathed in this dreamy pumpkin…
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Just Beet It (Roasted Beets with Dill)
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Ahhh, December! No, I don’t ski. And no, I don’t like the cold. I don’t even celebrate Christmas (Well, not technically. Though the tree in my living room would beg to differ.) Typical joys of the season aside, I am personally excited by December because it means that roasting season is in full swing!…
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A Nutty November
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Look out, boy – I am currently infatuated with another. Though I hate to admit it, I accidentally fell in love… While I long believed that I hated the nut, our paths crossed one faithful night. It was tough at first to crack him, but once he came out of his shell, I felt…
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The Omnivore’s Delight
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I. Cooked. Meat. After eight years of dragging my feet along the omnivore’s bandwagon – picking at bacon crumbs, sipping chicken broth, dipping my potatoes in gravy and pretending that I didn’t know that my favorite cheeses contained rennet – I’ve finally hopped back onboard. I am officially a full-fledged meat eater. Well, almost.…
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Not-So-Guilty Pleasures
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Cold nights call for warm food; Uneventful nights call for guilty-pleasures. Tonight turned out to be chilly as well as boring and my cravings were teetering between something fried and something roasted. Other than a rare handful of chips, or an odd (and usually regretful) midnight diner visit, fried foods are infrequently seen in…
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Pomme Cannelle
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The arrival of autumn comes hand in hand with the comforting aroma of cinnamon in my kitchen. Handfuls of freshly-picked apples are constantly baking in some form in my oven. My apples have taken many forms this season: apple pies, apple crisps, apple sauce, failed-apple-crumble-turned-discovery-of-gigantic-apple-cookie, and, my absolute favorite, apple cake. Other than it’s…