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Ingredient Spotlight: Pumpkin, Pumpkin and More Pumpkin!

October 5, 2011 by Tiffany

Ingredient Spotlight has a new button! I decided it was time to give this party its own graphic. My oldest daughter created it for us. I think she did a great job!

I’m so excited about this week’s Ingredient. It’s pumpkin time!

How can you not love a vegetable that is so beautiful and signals the arrival of autumn? Pumpkin is extremely versatile. You can carve it, decoupage it, paint it, combine it with flowers (thanks, Pinterest for showing me those things).

You can bake it, mash it, roast the seeds. And most wonderful of all – Pumpkin is a veggie that often masquerades as dessert!

That’s my kind of food!

Here are some of my most-loved pumpkin recipes: [Read more...]

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Ingredient Spotlight: Orange Veggies (Carrots, Sweet Potatoes etc)

January 26, 2011 by Tiffany

We’ve got to get our veggies in today, because I’ve got some serious sweet treat recipes to share with you later this week.

Instead of focusing just on one veggie, I decided we’d do a color. Orange is perfectly sunshiney to brighten the winter gray. When I scheduled this Ingredient Spotlight, I forgot all about pumpkin, but feel free to add pumpkin recipes too, if you like. Pumpkin had it’s own Ingredient Spotlight a few months ago, but we can show it off again this week.

Here are a few of my recipes that use orange veggies: [Read more...]

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Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

November 20, 2010 by Tiffany

This is a guest post from Sweet T of Sweet T Studio.

For this recipe, I started with Martha’s Pumpkin-Swirl Brownies, & made a few modifications to the original recipe to bring DOWN the guilt-factor, in regard to my thighs, AND my wallet, hehe! (I doubled my recipe, because I was taking it to a big party, but this would be an ideal recipe to make two, & freeze one for later! Time saver!) [Read more...]

Filed under: Dessert Tagged with chocolate, cinnamon, eggs, holiday, nutmeg, pumpkin, splenda4 Comments

Apples and Cranberries Baked in a Pumpkin

November 9, 2010 by Tiffany

I’m in love with this pumpkin recipe. I dream about it. I’ve even eaten it for breakfast. Twice.

It tastes seriously wonderful. Sweet, spiced apples and cranberries add so much flavor to the baked pumpkin. On top of that, it looks impressive. I’m not known for making beautiful food, so this is something to be proud of.

I am known for creating simple recipes and this does fall into that category. It can be ready for the oven in less than 20 minutes and that includes about 13 minutes of trying to cut the top off the pumpkin. [Read more...]

Filed under: Side Dish Tagged with apples, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, cranberries, holiday, pumpkin, Thanksgiving31 Comments

Ingredient Spotlight: Pumpkin

October 27, 2010 by Tiffany

This post is part of a new series where you get to link up your recipes! Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient. I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

We’ve been thinking about Thanksgiving dinner recipes this week, so Ingredient Spotlight on pumpkin is perfectly timed. I have to admit, I have never cooked with fresh pumpkin before. But I bought the two pie pumpkins you see in the photo and I’m planning to make something with them. I haven’t decided what to turn them into, but I know you all will tempt me with your recipes!

Here are a few of my recipes that use pumpkin: [Read more...]

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Pumpkin Chip Cookies

December 2, 2009 by Tiffany

pumpkin chocolate chip cookies done

Someone on my favorite homeschool message board shared this recipe many, many years ago. Recently, another person posted the recipe again. I’m so glad she did, because I hadn’t made them in a long time. They’re soft and full of flavor, spiced with cinnamon and studded with chocolate chips. [Read more...]

Filed under: cookies, Dessert Tagged with chocolate chips, holiday, pumpkin12 Comments

Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

September 26, 2009 by Tiffany

pumpkin sheet cake with cream cheese icing

I’ve heard that there’s a canned pumpkin shortage going on. I hope not, because you are going to want to make this cake. It’s perfectly pumpkin-y with a soft, cream cheese frosting that makes you want to lick your lips, your fork, your plate and the pan.

The recipe makes a good-sized sheet cake so you can share it with a bunch of friends, or pop some in the freezer for another time. You’ll still have plenty to eat for yourself. I altered the recipe from the Amish Friends Cookbook. My mother-in-law bought it for me for my birthday. I love Amish cookbooks. They’re 87.3% desserts with a few main dishes thrown in so as not to be too decadent. They also have recipes for odd things like a drink called Hay-Time Switchel and Vinegar Punch. [Read more...]

Filed under: Dessert Tagged with cinnamon, cream cheese, powdered sugar, pumpkin43 Comments

Spicy Pumpkin Pie

November 16, 2008 by Tiffany

pumpkin pie done

I love pumpkin pie. I will eat many pieces of it, even having it for breakfast. Pumpkin is a vegetable, right? I do like my pie spicy though and this one takes care of that.

What you’ll need:

2 eggs
1 can pumpkin
3/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. allspice
1 2/3 cup milk (or 12 oz can evaporated milk)
1 unbaked pie shell

Beat the eggs with a whisk. Add the sugar and then pumpkin, mixing well. Add the spices and mix until the spices are well distributed. Add the milk and mix. (I used 2/3 cup of half and half and 1 cup of milk) Pour the great smelling mixture into an unbaked pie shell. Sometime I’ll share how to make a very easy homemade crust, but I was too lazy for that this time so I used a Pillsbury refrigerated crust.

Bake the pie at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Turn the heat down to 350 degrees and bake another 45-50 minutes or until a knife comes out clean. Try not to eat it all yourself.

Filed under: Dessert, Pie Tagged with allspice, cinnamon, ginger, milk, nutmeg, pumpkin, sugar7 Comments

Pumpkin Muffins

October 27, 2008 by Tiffany

Last week, when we were out of bread and cereal and anything else for breakfast, I whipped up a batch of these muffins. I mixed them up after dinner and we warmed them in the microwave the next morning. Even my pickiest child loved them. Of course, I didn’t tell him they were pumpkin or he would have refused to even try them. He didn’t find out they had pumpkin in them until he was on his third muffin. I love pullin’ one over on my kids!

The recipe is adapted from Country Living Country Mornings cookbook.

Mix 1 1/2 cups flour, 6 TBS sugar, 1 TBS baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg together in a bowl.

In a separate bowl, melt 1/2 stick of butter in the microwave. Stir in 1 cup pumpkin puree, 1/2 cup milk, 1 egg.

Stir the wet ingredients into the dry until just moistened. You can also add raisins, but my kids would revolt, so ours are plain. Divide the batter into greased muffin pans and bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Slather with butter and wash down with hot coffee, tea or milk. Savor fall!

Pumpkin Muffins
1 1/2 cups flour
6 Tbs. sugar
1 Tbs. baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nugmeg
1/2 cup raisins (or golden raisins) optional
1/2 stick butter
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup milk
1 egg

Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Melt the butter and mix with the remaining ingredients just until blended. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Makes 1 dozen.