Fact: pumpkin-flavoured things are always better than non-pumpkin-flavoured things.
Pumpkin swirl brownies
Pumpkin chocolate chip granola bars
Spiced pumpkin cupcakes
Pumpkin cream cheese muffins
Pumpkin pie bars
Pumpkin spiced oatmeal pecan cookies
Pumpkin cinnamon rolls
Pumpkin granola
White chocolate cinnamon pumpkin truffles
Baked pumpkin pie oatmeal
Pumpkin pie ice cream
Wouldn’t it be nice if pho restaurants here were more creative with their names? For example:
Phonominal
Phobulous
Pho Sure
Pho Real
Mo’Pho
What The Pho
Any other suggestions?
Straight up: Ann Sather’s cinnamon rolls
Seasonal: Pumpkin cinnamon rolls
In a hurry: Cinnamon breakfast biscuits
In cake form: Cinnamon roll cake
In pancake form: Cinnamon roll pancakes
In bread form: Cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread
How to: Tie a scarf into a fancy headband.
Etsy find of the week: Bird on a Wire Resin Cuff.
Convenient: Whimventory is to wish lists what Delicious is to bookmarks.
Healthy snack: No-bake peanut butter and oat energy bites.
Practical and cute: Sticky notes with glasses (as in spectacles) on them.
I’m always looking for new/easy/tasty recipes for vegetables and healthy snacks and Chow’s done a series of recipes for veggie chips (and accompanying dips) that’s worth checking out. I’m already a big fan of kale chips and will definitely be trying some of these out in the near future.
I know banana bread is easy to make from scratch but I was feeling lazy the other day and had some overripe bananas to get rid of so I picked up a box of the President’s new whole grain banana bread mix.
The recipe on the box calls for you to add four ripe bananas, [...]
1. The Whirley Pop popcorn popper
Don’t laugh, this thing is awesome. I’m generally not a fan of single-purpose kitchen appliances but this is an exception, it makes the Best Popcorn Ever. Kettle corn, anyone?
2. The BusyBodyBook day timer
I still like to make lists and write things down on paper. I’ve been using this day [...]
We got a slow cooker just before the holidays and holy cow are we ever loving it. It’s so nice to throw a bunch of stuff in the slow cooker in the morning and come home to a delicious ready-to-eat dinner. Here are a few of our slow cooker favourites so far, with the cassoulet [...]
Zucchini, bacon, and gruyère quiche
Beet, apple and cheddar tart
Three cheese baked macaroni
Smoky beef tacos
Chicken and dumplings
Lentil soup with chipotles
Healthy banana-blueberry muffins
Baked beans with bacon and brown sugar
Onion and bacon tart
Curried chicken with peppers and peas en papiot
I also recommend Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Around My French Table
