Happy Thanksgiving!

Since I probably won’t be doing much food photography while preparing Thanksgiving dinner, I thought I’d just share my menu. My husband and I are hosting a small Thanksgiving dinner – just his mom and a family friend. On the menu: Cheese, crackers, and sliced persimmon from our farm share Brined TurkeyA friend of ours [...]

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Amazing Fall Gnocchi

I randomly stumbled upon Liz’s Cooking Blog, where she had a divine looking recipe consisting of gnocchi, butternut squash, sage, and pine nuts. I had all these ingredients on hand the other night, plus I had bacon that I needed to use up. I decided to toss that in too. The result was to die [...]

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Apple Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Buttercream

Yum. These cupcakes were so good. They are pure Martha Magic. They are not too sweet and incredibly moist. They taste like apple cider. The buttercream works perfectly with them, though they would probably be good on their own with just a dusting of powdered sugar. To Make the Cupcakes Makes 2 Dozen Ingredients 2 [...]

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Marbelized Lemon Tart with Sage Cornmeal Crust

As you know by now, I’m obsessed with putting herbs in desserts. And who doesn’t love lemon tarts? Sage makes it seasonal. Though I’m sure this recipe would be equally good with rosemary or thyme. The recipe comes from Martha Stewart. It’s somewhat involved, so if you want to make it, plan ahead. I’ll definitely [...]

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Butternut Squash Macaroni & Cheese

Yes, I realize this has become the cranberry and squash blog lately. I promise more variety soon. But there were two butternut squashes in my CSA box last week and this recipe looked really good. The recipe comes from Martha Stewart. As far as macaroni and cheese goes, this one is fairly light – there’s [...]

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Cranberry Sorbet

This sorbet is wonderful, though it didn’t taste how I expected. The recipe on Epicurious said it was “Cranberry and Orange Thyme Sorbet.” You know how obsessed I am with putting herbs in my desserts, so I was really excited to try this. Unfortunately, it has no thyme flavor whatsoever. I used lemon thyme, which [...]

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Warm Roasted Butternut Squash Salsa

I made this last week for my elections party, and named it “October Surprise.” While the official recipe name is a salsa, it really is more like a bean dip, and it was so delicious that I would probably just eat a bowl of it, like chili. The recipe comes from the Washington Post. (No, [...]

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I am the love child of Martha Stewart and Chuck Todd

For my elections return party tomorrow night, I embraced my inner political nerd by baking cookies in the shape of swing states. I found the cookie cutters for sale online, and followed Martha’s sugar cookie recipe, which The Good Wife used a few weeks ago for her gorgeous fall sugar cookies. The recipe was fairly [...]

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Pomegranate Cranberry Sauce

The one produce item that seems in short supply here on the west coast is cranberries. Being a Massachusetts native, I love me some cranberry sauce, so this has been distressing. I’ve been searching for these things for a month now, since they are widely available on the east coast in late September. They finally [...]

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