Category: Autumn

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/8181372812/" title="Spiced Cocoa Pie by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8349/8181372812_690292cef9.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Spiced Cocoa Pie"/></a> Let me tell you a tale - a tale of <del datetime="2012-11-15T17:45:25+00:00">four</del> <del datetime="2012-11-16T05:57:02+00:00">five</del> <em>six</em> pies.

If there's one dish that I must have on Thanksgiving, it's stuffing. I like sweet potatoes, but don't need them. Mashed potatoes always seem a bit superfluous to me. Even turkey is negotiable. But stuffing, …

I know that there are large factions of people in America who think a sweet potato isn't worth eating if it doesn't have marshmallows on top. I've tried to see that point of view. I …

  There are things I love, but I’m too lazy to make them often. Chicken and dumplings – a relatively simple dish — just seems exhausting to me. Cooking all that chicken! Making that soup! …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/8050960680/" title="Pumpkin Pie French Toast Closeup by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8175/8050960680_fa79164b25.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Pumpkin Pie French Toast Closeup"/></a> This french toast, then, is my brave attempt to bring a little autumn to my …

...My father didn't just love tradition, he loved ritual. He wouldn't just visit the same city over and over again, he would stay at the same hotel, visit the same restaurant, and order the …

The first time I ever went apple picking was my senior year of college. Ken had his car on campus that year -- a little blue Ford Festiva, that had been spray painted, and …