Presto chango! See how we transformed our Halloween display into an homage to the harvest season without buying anything new.
Have your pie and drink it too: Spiked Pieshakes
In the southern U.S., as well as most of the lower hemisphere and places like Sudan and Malaysia (I’d imagine), even though it’s the same October as the rest of the world, it isn’t really the same fall. Not yet. And the only thing I have to say to my Instagram feed and all of you with your tights and …
Pumpkin date bread with chocolate chips…in the bread machine!
You know what sucks about having a bread machine? Nothing! The only thing that could improve bread machine ownership is a greater abundance of trustworthy bread machine recipes. There are bread machine recipes to be had, but the sources are often dubious and reviews can be hard to come by, so it’s difficult to know whether you’ll end up with …
The Classless Cream
The holidays are on the horizon (they must be; craft stores have been crawling with Christmas trees for months), and that means we need drinks made of ice cream and booze! We need them because they’re simultaneously cold and warming; we need them because there’s an eggnog-shaped void in the lives of those of us unfortunate enough to have noticed …
Spider? I hardly know her
I don’t usually decorate for Halloween. I love Halloween, and I love holiday decorating, but Halloween decorating doesn’t really suit my style. When I decorate for a season, it’s to invite more beauty and sparkle into my home, not so I can pee my pants every time I walk into the living room and see a scarecrow standing there pretending …
Summer Meets Fall: Apple-Nectarine Parfaits with Maple Yogurt
Five ingredients. That’s it. Well, seven if you count lemon juice and a spoonful of sugar, but stop being so pedantic. It’s basically five. It’s like a whole-food dessert, more or less: lightly sweetened apples and nectarines, Greek yogurt with maple syrup mixed in, and some cereal on top. All right, you’ve got me there: once I said “throw cereal …
Barley alive
Beef and Barley Stew, and the kind-of-crazy story of my first time cooking it.