Happy Thanksgiving! Hope those of you that celebrate have a great time with your families and enjoy a big holiday meal (I can already hear the mashed potatoes and acorn squash calling my name…). While you recover from your post-Turkey Day food comas and Black Friday fatigue, here’s a tasty recipe to whip up for breakfast this weekend: Continue reading
Month: November 2015
It’s a Mouthful: Roasted Brussels Sprout and Sage Brown Butter Pasta
Pinwheel Cookies (Adapted from SORTEDfood)
Although I’ve already professed my admiration for a certain Naked Chef, there’s another British man–well, it’s actually a group of men–that are absolutely killing it online. Old classmates and friends, Jamie, Ben, Barry, and Mike launched SORTEDfood in 2009 to help fellow millennials kick their takeaway/takeout habit and learn how to cook delicious and original dishes.
You can watch the guys cook on their YouTube channel and their website, as well as follow them on Instagram and Twitter (I must warn you not to look at their accounts when hungry.). They also have an app that allows members of the SORTEDfood community to post pictures of things they’ve cooked as well as post original recipes of their own.
This week, they made pinwheel (or spiral, or named after the Catherine Wheel…) cookies. I went ahead and made these delicious cookies with an additional ingredient:
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Taste Test: (Almost) All Things Pumpkin at Trader Joe’s
Fall is the time of year when “basics” like me rejoice for the return of pumpkin and pumpkin spiced items. From candles to lattes, the orange gourd has become the unofficial mascot of the Autumn season. (Let’s just say it’s gourd to be a pumpkin.)
With the rise of the pumpkin, comes a plethora of related products. To help you sift through some it, I went to Trader Joe’s, the mecca for pumpkin/pumpkin spice fanatics, to try some (okay, most) of their offerings. Continue reading
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