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Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

On a business trip to Ottawa, I happened to be in the office on a someone's birthday, and the sales manager made Nanaimo bars for the crew. I totally want that tradition!

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In Season: Cauliflower

@CheesePlease & @ Airedalelover, I add a sprinkle of curry powder with the s&p and roast at about 425 -- less time, more crisp.

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This Week In Eating Out

The cheesecake link is wrong -- it goes to a Thai pizza review!

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Bake Sale Ideas

@LearP, for a seasonal kick, do Rice Krispie treats w/ candy corn

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From Recipes

Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

On a business trip to Ottawa, I happened to be in the office on a someone's birthday, and the sales manager made Nanaimo bars for the crew. I totally want that tradition!

From Serious Eats

In Season: Cauliflower

@CheesePlease & @ Airedalelover, I add a sprinkle of curry powder with the s&p and roast at about 425 -- less time, more crisp.

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This Week In Eating Out

The cheesecake link is wrong -- it goes to a Thai pizza review!

From Talk

Bake Sale Ideas

@LearP, for a seasonal kick, do Rice Krispie treats w/ candy corn

From Talk

The family that eats together...What's for dinner 10/25 Sunday??

Meatloaf (beef/pork), roasted potatoes and asparagus -- very Sunday-dinnerish!

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

If I put this in 2 8x8 pans, how long do you think the baking time would be? 30 minutes? It looks like a good candidate for a cake walk, but in the half-size.

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Healthy and Delicious: Granola Bars

This may sound silly, but why does the dish need to be greased if you are using parchment? Will something bad happen if you use the parchment ungreased?

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Grilling: Yogurt-Marinated Chicken Kebabs with Aleppo Pepper

Greek yogurt is kinda pricey in my area -- could I substitute regular whole milk yogurt that has been drained?

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Do You Have a Favorite Cheapish Olive Oil?

Colavita is pretty reliable, and easy to find here in flyover country.

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Sicilian Slices at Boston’s Galleria Umberto

This place is amazing! I was there only once and it just blew me away.

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Help me remember this breakfast cereal

@TheKitchenWitch -- Rice Krispies aren't the same as puffed rice. Puffed rice, like I think someone else said, has the texture of styrofoam or maybe a TempurPedic matress. It isn't crunchy, it's pliant.

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Help me remember this breakfast cereal

it's gives me a warm, sugary glow to know that I'm not the only one on the planet who still remembers Quisp fondly! However, I'm going to have to go buy a big bag of puffed rice and a new bag of sugar to eat with it...

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What Do You Put on Your Biscuit?

@poke87 -- ditto!!! where I grew up they have biscuits-only restaurants. anything and everything you might want on a biscuit... at least country-inspired. they have egg, sausage, fried steak, hashbrown patty, country ham, city ham, cheese, gravy, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. if done well, biscuits are the perfect platform as well as being excellent nekkid.

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Cooking from the Glossies: Key Lime Coconut Cake

OK, I am SO gonna use this for dessert at next year's Passover dinner (yeah, I know... don't ask). FIL loves coconut, so it will be nice to do something to his taste for a change.

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Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos

Cheetos swirls rock -- the leave the roof of your mouth totally raw!

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Vacation Cooking

spring for a $5 sheet pan at the local discount store. make foil dinner packets, everything sliced thin, seasoned well and wrapped up in a foil pouch -- in the oven 20 minutes, or until it seems like everything would be cooked through. Or you could buy those microwave steam bags and do something similar (I think there are recipes inside the box). do look for the simple store-prepared foods, some can be really tasty without all the weird stuff you find in the boxed prepared foods.

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Grilling: Pork Loin with Apple-Cranberry Filling

would anyone care to translate this to an indoor cooking method?

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Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells

Here in Lexington, KY we have a JIF factory and when they are roasting peanuts it's a wonderful thing... even despite the latest scare! I used to live about 3 blocks from it, and I really miss that neighborhood.

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Worst Food You Ate at a Party

Velveeta fudge -- the maker says, "you can't taste the Velveeta at all!" Um, maybe YOUR tastebuds are dead, but mine aren't, thanks.

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Peanut Butter Sales Down Almost 25 Percent

we have a JIF plant in town, and if you're in the right place at the right time, you can smell the peanuts roasting -- YUM!!!! I've watched the recall lists grow, but I'm not going to give up my JIF.

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I don't have a ___ in my kitchen and I don't want one.

no bread machine, no rice cooker, no lettuce knife (who eats the stuff you could cut with one of those anyway?), no electric can opener, no gimmicky little choppers -- I DO, however, love my microwave, my salad spinner, my Silpats and my blender!

From Talk

Pastrami Sandwich OR Corned Beef Sandwich?

Yes, either, both, any way. My DH is a pastrami fan, but I came late to it (hey, he's from Brooklyn, I'm from WV) so I would take anything with that much flavor. Oh, and please, not the lean stuff!

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Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

looks good to me. Funny I was in Nova Scotia a year or so ago and I tried to find a Nanaimo bar somewhere and didn't see one anywhere! I heard so much about them on the internet and found none. We traveled in the car throughout all of Nova Scotia, except for Louisburg, and saw none. I did find Strawberry Kit Kat bars, and Banana Kit Kat bars but no Nainamo bars.

I adore candy corn though. They look overly sweet but delicious.

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Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

I'm from Nanaimo & I remember my Nana teaching me how to make Nanaimo Bars wayyy back when I was a tyke. It's a rare day when I make these, they're just too sweet for me but a nice reminder of home.

This version just cracks me up. I never even tasted candy corn until I moved to the US a few years ago. Yuck!

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Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

Never mind those naysayers!!! Candy corn is fabulous (I am addicted!!!) and your photos are adorable!!!!! I am going to try your recipe and I bet everyone will love it! Thank you for being so clever!!

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Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

I've been longing for a proper Nanaimo Bar for years since I left Canada - I'm not actually from Nanaimo, but close enough for people to take the institution very seriously.

I brought these in to work today and they disappeared instantly. Even the people who were grossed out by the idea (melted candy corn? a what bar?) had to admit that they were fantastically tasty.

This is the only variation I will accept on the holy Nanaimo, but it's one I will defend to the death.

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Cakespy: Candy Corn Nanaimo Bars

wow enough with the candy corn already - gross!

From Talk

The family that eats together...What's for dinner 10/25 Sunday??

roasted chicken, roasted squashes (butternut and acorn with plenty of extra to make butternut squash soup w/quinoa), green beans, and brown rice

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Bake Sale Ideas

it might not be a bad idea to do something gluten-free?
so many people are discovering that they have that affliction, that it might wind up being quite a seller...

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Bake Sale Ideas

Bakerella has a ton of different shapes and decorations of her "cake pops". They are really cute and would sell well.
www.bakerella.com

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Bake Sale Ideas

Did anyone mention quiche? Pre-baked quiche can be easily reheated at home.

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Bake Sale Ideas

I like the spanokopita idea too.

Or pasties, empanadas, burek, mushroom tarts, gougeres, savory cheese-onion stuffed breads, calzones and especially at this time of the year-- tourti're (French-Canadian meat pies mmm-mmm...)

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Bake Sale Ideas

Soft pretzels might be a hit...

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The family that eats together...What's for dinner 10/25 Sunday??

We had split pea and ham soup, which was so comforting for last night's rainy weather.

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

@ieatgoodfood: This breaks down the measurements for many gooey substitutions. For a peanut butter gooey, for example, you'd use a chocolate cake mix for the "crust" part and a cup of peanut butter for the gooey. Everything can be gooey cake-ified!

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

Guys, you all act like a pack of wolves! So many negative people! You find something to trash and take it to a whole new level! This is a cake......a cake for crying out loud. It's 9" x 13"...........that's not 8"x8".........think about the ratios. Many recipes have that much sugar & butter and even chocolate in them. But you all get on board the "trash the cook" train like Jim Jones followers. I don't use many Paula Deen recipes either, but obviously, she's become an icon due to all her fans. Too bad no one cares what you think or want your recipes, the Lady is rich and you aren't........infact, when she reads mean comments like some of yours, she laughs all the way to her Savannah bank! You're probably sitting there adding your 2 cents while eating takeout burgers with 1500 calories half of which is fat, large sizing your spuds, and washing it down with a tall shake! Food snobs you are!

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

not that i am defending this recipe because i don't even like pumpkin, but i will say i made the barefoot contessa coconut cupcakes last weekend and they were just as bad in terms of contents -- OVER a box of powdered sugar (including the frosting), a box and a half of cream cheese, two bags of sweetened coconut, and nearly two boxes of butter if i recall. delicious if you forget what's inside! ;)

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

I've made this twice - once last year, with a whole year to recover, then again this past weekend. My family is over the moon with this recipe, but I will admit the cake layer is truly too sweet for adult tastes.

The pumpkin layer is delicious, light and creamy, but if you serve small pieces you can get away with it. (unless you go back for more.)

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

How would you substitute the other items you could make this with? Like say peanut butter or strawberries and bananas? Are there alternate recipes lurking around here somewhere? I am not a huge pumpkin fan, but these sound wonderful.

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

I made regular ones this weekend. I used 3/4 of the amount of suggested sugar and I bet you could use even 1/2 the amount and they would still be very decadent.

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

@susanova: Ooh, I've never split up the batter like that but that sounds like a reasonable amount of time. Report back!

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Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking

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Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking

I love ravioli with a pumpkin cream sauce. Great fall comfort food!

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Cook the Book: Paula Deen's Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

I have made the pumpkin gooey butter cake many times...although I prefer some of the other flavors that I have made. Has anyone ever made the gooey butter cookies. they are great and everyone loves them.

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Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake. A few years ago, we had a two pumpkin desserts at our Thanksgiving dinner -- a pumpkin pie a la Mom, and a pumpkin gooey butter cake made by my daughter. The Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake one hands down. It is decadent, but it is Holiday-worthy!

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