Our next stop in Ireland? County Kerry for a B&B in Castlemaine (Caisleán na Mainge) and sights in Dingle (Daingean Uí Chúis). (Including holding a baby lamb!) And my recipe for you here is an Irresistible Apple Blackberry Crumble. This post may contain affiliate links. After driving all evening from Dublin we arrived pretty late […]
Pumpkin Fritters with Curry & Potato
Pumpkin with diced, fried potatoes and curry, all wrapped up in a fritter batter! I love coming back to fritters. I confess that I’ve made fritters several times in the past and when I do I always think, “Why don’t I make these more often?” Then I sort of forget and take a while to […]
Cheerios & Apple Bars
Pumpkin Spice Cheerios plus plenty of apples make sweet perfect-for-fall bars! Or, use Apple-Cinnamon or Maple Cheerios for a delightful and just as tasty twist! This post may contain affiliate links. There are a lot of funny memes and videos that mock the annual pumpkin spice craze. But hey, come October we’ve all just […]
Frosted Pumpkin Cookies
Recently while discussing all things pumpkin with my friend Shawn, he shared that one of his favorite treats are soft, frosted pumpkin cookies that he had all the time as a kid. I didn’t really get more details than that (we ran into each other at the vet’s office, and pumpkin conversation was quickly overtaken […]
Spooky Halloween Party Treats – Fun to Make and Eat!
These sweet treats are perfect for a kids Halloween party or other spooky celebration, and they’re also fun to make with your kids! My kitchen for the last couple of weeks has been covered in candy eyeballs, fondant ghosts, spatters of orange, green, and purple, candy corn, licorice legs, apples in various coatings… I could […]
Halloween Spider Sandwich Cookies
If it’s Halloween time, then you have to expect the spiders… tasty and spooky Halloween Spider Sandwich Cookies, that is! *This post may contain affiliate links. Sorry spider haters, but it’s true. In our neck of the woods as the October nighttime temperatures dip further and further towards freezing, real-life spiders are sneaking into the […]
Pumpkin Spice Syrup Recipe: for Coffee, Lattes, and Tea
Add a splash of Fall to your coffee or tea with this DIY Pumpkin Spice Syrup! This post may contain affiliate links. My friend Natalie asked me one recent autumn day if I had a good recipe for a pumpkin spice syrup to mix into coffee. (“Pumpkin’s back!” The seasonal commercials hound us at every […]
Evil Eyes Candy-Coated Apples
*This post may contain affiliate links. It’s an eye for an eye. For an eye. And another and another eye! When you have a bowl full of little candy eyes, it is inevitable that food in your house will soon be dotted with eyes! I picked up several packages of these Wilton Candy Eyes and I’ve […]
Ghostly Good Chocolate Brownies
Spooky, scary ghosts gliding over the ground while fog swirls about. This Halloween image was the inspiration for these rich, chocolaty brownies with a cream cheese layer on top. And a little ghost on top of that! I toyed endlessly with this recipe, and fortunately had plenty of people to feed the experimental brownies to […]
Chocolate Halloween Witch Hats
*This post may contain affiliate links. The following passage is from the poem hist wist by e.e. cummings: whisk look out for the old woman with the wart on her nose what she’ll do to yer nobody knows I love this spooky poem, and I love seeing “little twitchy witches” come to our door on […]
Hearty Spiced Applesauce
A perfect fall afternoon feels cool and crisp, and has sun occasionally breaking through billows of charcoal clouds. The smell of a perfect fall afternoon is of chilly, damp earth and leaves, and the scent of a wood stove fired up nearby. And in the kitchen the spicy fragrance of applesauce. Apples right out of […]
Striped Chocolate Pumpkin Bread
Trying to think up a new twist on the favorite, standard pumpkin bread, began with going over what I already tend to throw into a loaf of pumpkin bread. And as is so often the case I tend to throw in chocolate. I wanted to imagine how else chocolate could pair with pumpkin and spice […]