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15 Pumpkin Recipes We Love
From the original pumpkin soup to pumpkin ravioli with sage sauce, these 15 savory recipes are just some ways you can use pumpkin (ain't nothing wrong with the canned stuff) to create the perfect autumn meal.Autumn Specials: 7 Fast-Food Pumpkin-Flavored Treats
Halloween is right around the corner. Drugstores have stocked shelves with candy; another sequel to Saw is coming out; someone carved Ed Levine's face onto a pumpkin. And knowing that holidays bring business, a number of large chains are currently serving up pumpkin treats as limited-time offers. Are any of them tasty? Take a look.Equipment: Essential Pumpkin Carving Toolkit
Want to up your pumpkin carving game this year? We're here to help, beginning with this guide to essential pumpkin-carving equipment. Here's what you'll need.Breaking: Hope for Canned Pumpkin Shortage
Though the pumpkin crop wasn't so hot this year and some have flipped about a potentially apocalyptic canned pumpkin shortage, Whole Foods says settle down. According to an email from a PR representative we just received, the store has plenty of their Whole Foods Market 365 canned pumpkin in stock, in fact more than normal. The organic pumpkin crop didn't hurt as badly since it didn't face the same issues with fungus and mold. But if you still can't find the orange stuff, here are some pumpkin pie alternatives....That's Nuts: Do Peanut Butter and Pumpkin Work Together?
Note: Lee Zalben, a.k.a. "the Peanut Butter Guy" is the creator of the Peanut Butter & Co., a New York sandwich shop with a national line of nut butters. Every week he chimes in with some nuttiness. [Photograph: Lee Zalben] Peanut Butter and Pumpkin Soup View the complete recipe here >> Peanut butter and pumpkin. The two sound nice together in theory, but how do they taste? I've made peanut butter pumpkin pies and a peanut-pumpkin seed brittle before—both of which were delicious. Everyone always expects The Peanut Butter Guy to have some kind of peanut-inspired dish on his holiday table. This year I wanted to try to steer things in a more savory direction so I thought about soup....Video: Paula Deen Making Pumpkin Rolls with Conan O'Brien
Paula Deen was on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last night, trying to show Conan, Andy, and guest Garry Shandling how to make pumpkin rolls from her new book, Paula Deen's Cookbook for the Lunch-Box Set. It was a mess of a performance, as the three boys tried to follow her frazzled directions (which included such orders as "grab your nuts!"). By the end of it, Conan was downing Kahlua straight from the bottle and Paula was chugging back whipped cream straight from the can. Watch the video, after the jump....Jamba Juice's Pumpkin Smash
[Photographs: Robyn Lee] What exactly is a Pumpkin Smash? Something between a smoothie and a shake, this Jamba Juice creation rolls out every fall (until January) and reminds us that everything can be pumpkinified. Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts do the lattes, Dairy Queen does Blizzards, and I'm pretty sure I saw pumpkin shampoo at Bath & Body Works. Oversaturating the world with pumpkin products is generally fine with me. Too often these seasonal pumpkin products are not pumpkiny enough. But too often these seasonal pumpkin products are not pumpkiny enough, tasting more like the holiday-scented candles than actual pumpkins. Pumpkin-flavored posers suffer from being too sweet, not spiced enough, or just plain gross. Jamba Juice's Smash had potential....In Great Desserts: Apple-Pumpkin Pie
[Photo: Yummy Local] Pumpkin pie: fall standard. Apple pie: ditto. So why not apple pumpkin pie? Alice Summers from the food blog YummyLocal revives a recipe from an Emeril Lagasse Thanksgiving pie contest nearly ten years ago. Cinnamon-stewed apples form the pie's first layer, which gets smothered in a sweet pumpkin filling. It gets you thinking about pie's fall potential. Pumpkin-pecan? Pecan-cranberry? So many possibilities... Related Cook's Illustrated's Pumpkin Pie Crochet Your Own Pie Beret Deep Fried Pumpkin Pie Makes My Stomach Rumble with Glee...In Season: Pumpkin
Photo: Lady_Fox Pumpkin, versatile and delicious, is one of the quintessential fall vegetables. A member of the genus Curcubita, pumpkin comes from the same family as gourds and squash. Characterized by a bold orange or yellow color, round shape, and thick skin, pumpkins make the perfect fall decoration, or their seeds can be used for snacking, and flesh as an ingredient in countless dishes. In the United States alone, 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkin are produced each year, in crops that are planted in late July just in time for the fall harvest. I think it's safe to say Americans are pounding some serious pumpkin! Pumpkin recipes and tips, after the jump....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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