great balls of red velvet cake

This week’s baking project came about after stumbling upon yet another wonderful food blog. This time it was Bakerella.com. I saw her on the Martha Stewart show some time ago, and forgot about her ingenious creations. Last Christmas our friends Tom & Brett made us some similar cake balls. They were quite delicious and I…

more with the pumpkin

I mentioned last week about my pumpkin puree shopping adventure. Now that I’ve got all of this canned pumpkin, I’ve been immersed in all of my cookbooks and cooking magazines trying to find recipes that’ll use it all up. As usually happens, I fell back on an old issue of Everyday Food Magazine. There I…

pumpkin shortage, my…

  Just about daily, there’s been a report on the news about another grocery item “shortage.” First it was canned pumpkin puree now it’s Eggo frozen waffles. Well dang it, I have plans to take a pumpkin-eggo waffle pie to take to Thanksgiving dinner at Greg’s family’s. Just kidding about the waffle part of the…

roasted tomatoes

My first attempt at growing tomatoes has been an unqualified success. The plant has supplied us with mini romas for most of the summer. Finally today, I put the remaining bounty to the roasting test. Bathed with olive oil, salt and freshly ground pepper and roasted at 400 degrees for 25 minutes. Towards the end…