a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
last week when i was telling you how i stick to canned pumpkin because raw pumpkins are difficult to cut, i alluded to the fact that getting into cans was beginning to rival getting into a raw pumpkin. as is wont to happen, the manual can opener that i, uh, “borrowed” from my parents years ago (that i’m pretty sure is older than i am) isn’t super excited about opening cans anymore. …
pumpkin! can’t stop, won’t stop! i warned you earlier this fall that we had lost time to make up for and i’m no liar. i want to make sure 2016 goes down as the year that i remedied the lack of pumpkin recipes on this site. (also the year that i changed jobs, bought a house, sold a house, and moved two states away. but mostly, the year that i shared more pumpkin recipes with my internet friends.)…
the weather is continuing to cool off (more or less-ish) and recently we’ve had some much needed rain, which means that i’ve been craving cozier fare, like chipotle tamale and roasted vegetable burrito bowls. aaaaand mexican quinoa with black beans and chorizo (which yes, you could totally make vegetarian or even vegan).
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i have always loved good, crusty bread but for years and years, i was totally intimidated by the thought of baking it myself. i mean, yeast. water temperature. kneading. rising. how does one ever possibly learn how/what/when to do with these important-yet-difficult-to-quantify variables?! the water temperature situation i would be able to conquer now that i have a thermometer but the rest of those… where to even start?! is that what still-happy proofed yeast looks like??…
for those of you who know me personally, you may know that i love all things pumpkin. for those of you who are new here, hi, welcome, i love all things pumpkin.
now that we’re all up to speed, it won’t come as any surprise to hear that i am super excited to be participating in this years #virtualpumpkinparty. the what now? basically, it’s a big fun (virtual) potluck party where a whole bunch of talented food bloggers share a pumpkin-related recipe on their site on the same day. which is exciting because it means that you and i both now have over 100 new pumpkin recipes (links below!) that we can check out and enjoy. yuuuum! (huge thank you to sara from cake over steak for organizing all of this deliciousness!)…