Fudgy squares with chopped Oreos, a dark chocolate drizzle, and Halloween sprinkles Truth be told, Halloween is my least favorite holiday. I do not like scary things. I do like the candy, and I like the kids in costumes, so I keep the holiday to the parts I like. Halloween Oreo brownies are the candy…
Caramelized apples, pecan streusel and a spash of Bill’s bourbon mek the most delicious apple bourbon loaf cake There is one hour of my life when I am guaranteed to sit still, and it happens in a salon chair. Cape on, color setting, nothing to do but read whatever is stacked on the little table…
A homemade holiday gift they will actually use Every October, I start thinking about the people on my gift list. Not what they need (most of us have what we need) but what might make them stop for a moment, open something unexpected, and feel genuinely thought about. A jar of homemade pear-apple chutney, tied…
What to do when you come home from the orchard with too many apples There are miles of peach and apple orchards not far from where we live, and we drive out a few times every year. Every year we come home with more apples than we can possibly eat. I have apple bread, apple…
The ultimate comfort food, this Blue Cheese Pumpkin Mac and Cheese will quickly become your favorite fall meal. Easy Pumpkin Blue Cheese Macaroni and Cheese Recipe We love all things pumpkin. Once there is a hint of Fall in the air pumpkin makes an appearance in both sweet and savory dishes in the kitchen. Lately,…
There is a week in late September or early October when everything at the farmers market shifts at once. The zucchini and cucumbers disappear, and in their place the tables fill up with squash in every shape and size. Acorn squash with its dark ridged skin and scalloped edges, sweet potatoes with their rough…
This easy cranberry apple muffins recipe makes moist muffins packed with fresh cranberries and apple. No electric mixer required, just two bowls and the best fall flavors you will find in a muffin tin. Perfect as a sweet treat or an easy breakfast. Today I am joining my friend Sheri Silver for our monthly Sweet…
Five ingredients, one bowl, and no oven required. This sweet fall snack mix lives in a glass jar tied with orange ribbon from the first week of October until the candy corn runs out. Five ingredients, five minutes, one big bowl, and not a single sheet pan to wash. It is what I make when…
Rich, deeply chocolatey, finished with sea salt, and ready in 20 minutes. Rich, deeply chocolatey, finished with a pinch of sea salt, this salted dark chocolate hot fudge sauce is the one you will make every Christmas and every summer and every time someone asks you to bring dessert. I have loved hot fudge for…
Five minutes, six spices, and a blend that actually tastes like fall. Last Thanksgiving I was in charge of the pumpkin pie. My brother was in charge of the pumpkin cake. We are both warm-spice people, or so I thought. I added more cloves than the recipe called for, which is what I always do,…
Moist, warmly spiced, and loaded with melty chocolate chips, the first pumpkin bread of every fall. September second and I am already in the kitchen with a can of pumpkin. Not because the temperature has dropped (it has not, this is North Carolina) but because the calendar said so. That is all the permission I…
A creamy cheesecake filling, a buttery graham cracker crust, and a fresh blackberry swirl. Easy to make and better the next day. Blackberries have a brief window, by late August, the big beautiful clusters are still showing up at the farm stand and the grocery, but there is something in the air that says this…
