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Thanksgiving
Tweet I know… I know. I’ve been bad. It isn’t even that I haven’t been cooking! I have tons of recipes to share, plus I just got back from England, where I ate at some awesome places. Nope… I just...
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Pumpkin Pound Cake
Tweet I have a habit of undercooking baked goods. OK, scratch that. I have a habit of undercooking everything. I’ve undercooked steak. I’ve undercooked ahi tuna. That takes a lot of skill and...
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Pumpkin Pasta
Tweet I’m never too sure if I like pumpkin in savory dishes. I always hesitate before ordering them, trying to remember if the last time I tried them I liked them. I can’t speak for all savory pumpkin...
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Thanksgiving
Tweet I know, I know… my Thanksgiving post is late. But to be fair, my Thanksgiving was late: I had it on Friday. It was tons of fun… and unlike last year, it went off without a hitch. (Wait… scratch...
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Cake Day
Tweet I’ve mentioned the fact that Saturday is baking day in my house before. Every Saturday, I pick something from the endless list of recipes for cupcakes, brownies, quickbread, muffins, and other...
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Pumpkin Chicken Chili
Tweet One of the things I love the most about living (and eating) in France is how easy and second-nature it is to eat with the seasons. The Shoe Fiend, one of my new friends this year by way of my...
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Pumpkin Black Bean Soup
Tweet I still think of myself as a shy person, something that someone who’s met me in the past five years or so probably wouldn’t understand. Now, I’m always the first one to introduce myself, the...
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Quickbread
Tweet I have a habit of not only doing things that no one else does, but also of doing the things that other people do in a crazy order, as though I took all the normal steps of life, jumbled them up...
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Pumpkin and Chocolate Loaf
Tweet The more I use French in my daily life, the more I notice weird little quirks and differences between it and my native tongue, like the fact that please–s’il vous(te) plait in French–uses only...
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pumpkin, bacon, goat cheese, onions
Tweet I didn’t used to like watching television in France. The choices generally range from poorly dubbed American sitcoms and even poorer French versions; I watch the evening news and American shows...
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potiron, lardons, thym, fromage de vache
Tweet There are phrases that regularly come out of my mouth in French that I’d never say in English. Bonne journée. Bonne soirée. Bon dimanche. When was the last time you heard some one say “good day”...
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Potimarron, goat cheese, caramelized onion chausson
Sometimes, when I get too happy, I start to freak out. It’s as though there’s a part of me watching my life from the outside, waiting to pounce on a perceived moment of bliss. Suddenly, everything...
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