Category: Food

Pumpkin Pie From Scratch

For me, holidays are always a connection to the past.  It’s a time for remembering.  Of course holidays connect me

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Dark Chocolate Banana Bread

Last week I got some organic bananas, but I was eating so many apples for breakfast, I didn’t quite get

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Winter Squash Skewers

Winter veggie skewers It still feels like summer, but all of the winter veggies are starting to get ripe. Winter

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Alton Brown's Sweet potato pie

Gryffin Tries: Making Alton Brown’s Sweet Potato Pie

We have a boat-load of fresh sweet potatoes right now.  Soon, we’ll be making sweet potato soup and canning the

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Kraken Summer Cocktail

When my extended family gets together, we are always looking for tasty cocktails that everyone can agree taste awesome.  We

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Martin Sisters’ Summer Salads – Grandma’s Pistachio Salad

My grandmother was one of three sisters. When my mother was young, my grandparents used to host picnics for the

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