By Nick • November 25, 2009
One of my coworkers recently brought me the latest issue of Cooking Light and showed me this awesome recipe for a Vanilla-Bourbon Pumpkin Tart. It looked really good, but I’m honestly not one to practice the “Light” part of cooking.
Don’t get me wrong, I can do healthy, but if I’m going to make a pie [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Holidays | Tagged bourbon, cheesecake, graham cracker, how to make a graham cracker crust, pumpkin, pumpkin cheesecake
By Nick • October 28, 2009
Recently, Betsy had a bake sale at school (yes they still have bake sales in law school) and the options were either A) Nick bakes something or B) Funfetti. Not that I’m dissing on Funfetti… I actually love the stuff, but I figured we might not be the only bake sale participants who thought to [...]
Posted in baking, Holidays | Tagged baking, brown butter, cinnamon, cloves, cream cheese, cream cheese frosting, cupcakes, nutmeg, pumkin cupcakes, pumpkin
By Nick • October 15, 2009
Given the season, I wasn’t too surprised to see “Something Orange” blow away all the other colors for dishes in the poll last week. I ended up making two orange dishes in an effort to get something really orange. Turns out Mother Nature is a bit of a trickster and what appears to be orange [...]
Posted in appetizers, Economical, good food, soup | Tagged butternut squash, butternut squash soup, cayenne, chipotle, grilled pumpkin, pumpkin, soup, sweet heat glaze
By Nick • October 1, 2009
Every month in 2009, I am writing a post detailing some specific things about food in the upcoming month.
Fall is upon us and it’s finally starting to cool off to a livable temperature in DC. Fall is by far my favorite season of the year. What’s not to love? There’s apple picking, pumpkin carving, and [...]
Posted in Food Letters | Tagged butternut squash, food letters, Halloween, links, pumpkin, walnuts, watercress
