Pineapple Pumpkin Walnut Cake This cake resembles a spicy carrot cake. You can modify the sugars to your own taste – more brown or darker brown for more molasses flavor. If you really love the cream cheese frosting, just double that recipe for a taller layer of frosting. The pumpkin puree can either be homemade or canned. You may also want to modify the spices to your taste… some prefer more spice than others....
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Roasted Butternut Squash with Garlic and Sage Recipe and photo reprinted with permission by Viviane Banquet Farre www.foodandstyle.wordpress.com serves 8 2 medium butternut squash (about 4 lbs) – peeled (use vegetable hand peeler), seeded scooped out and cut in 1/2” x 3” slices 2 small bunches fresh sage – leaves removed from stems 16 large garlic cloves – unpeeled and left whole 1 teaspoon sea salt or to taste freshly ground...
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Artichoke-Parmesan Sourdough Dressing Yield: Serves 12 (makes 10 cups) Ingredients 1 pound crimini mushrooms, rinsed, ends trimmed, and sliced 3-4 tablespoons butter 1.5 onions, chopped 1 cup chopped celery 4 tablespoons minced garlic About 2 cups chicken broth or homemade stock 1 loaf (1 lb.) sourdough bread, cut into 1/2-in. cubes, lightly toast in oven 2 jars...
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Praline Pumpkin Pie Recipe and photos with permission by: Deeba Rajpal (Twitter @vindee) of http://www.passionateaboutbaking.com/ I was on Twitter yesterday and saw another blogging friend post a link to this recipe and one simple line . . . “be still my heart.” And when I saw this recipe I thought…. wow, be still MY heart! The Twitter blogging community is so full of talented chefs, home cooks, photographers...
Read MoreCreamy Wild Mushroom SoupRecipe and photos by The Albion River InnMendocino Coast, California www.albionriverinn.com That is the view from my favorite table at the Albion River Inn on the spectacular coast of Mendocino. Need I say more? I‘ll give you a moment to enjoy the view . . . Whenever I return home to Mendocino, I have some rituals that I simply must do. . . Must drink Navarro and Golden Eye wines. ...
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Homemade Rose Petal Pistachio Ice Cream Chef David Lawrence is a Facebook friend and lately he’s killing me with his recipe posts! His new blog… www.forkingdelicious.blogspot.com is a combination of stunning food photos, humorous writing and interesting culinary creations. He has been gracious to allow me to re-post many of his recipes. So many are wonderfully inventive and decadent that I find myself asking him...
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