Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Squares

I had a whole 2 cups of leftover pumpkin puree, so I sort of went on a pumpkin baking spree. I made both of my pumpkin cookies to refresh my memory and revise the recipes a bit, and thought the pumpkin made the cookies so fluffy and cake-like, that they might taste good as a…

Pumpkin Butter

This is scrumptious. Like Apple Butter? Try it with Pumpkin! This is straight up from Food & Wine Magazine, with some minor alterations. I’ll rewrite it in my own words, but I cannot take credit for it! Ingredients: 1 3lb pumpkin turned into puree (follow my recipe here) — Food & Wine wants you to…

Cooking Tip: How to make Pumpkin/Squash Puree

It’s fall, which means…it’s pumpkin season! And squash season, but pumpkin is where my heart is, with butternut and acorn coming in second and third. I’ve already started making pumpkin things, kicked off the season with my pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and I plan on making some pumpkin butter this weekend (recipe soon!). Buuut, to…

Roasted Fall Vegetables

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This is one of my favorite Fall recipes to make, and it fills the air with the most intoxicating spicy scents. You can modify this to use whatever root vegetables (or non-root vegetables) you want! For example, I had a pumpkin hanging around that I used instead of the acorn squash (I’ve been…

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

‘Tis the season for pumpkin! These cookies come out super soft and almost cake-like, and taste very festively fall. Ingredients (yields 60-100 cookies, depending on your desired cookie size): 1 can of pumpkin puree 2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup light brown sugar 1/4 tsp vanilla 2 large eggs…

Pumpkin Spice Cookies

So now that you have all that homemade pumpkin puree, you’re probably wondering what else you can make with it. What better way to continue the taste of fall than by making pumpkin-flavored cookies? (with molasses, of course!) Ingredients (makes approx. 30 cookies): 2 1/3 cups flour 2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder…

Pumpkin Pie (and Puree)

There are a lot of pumpkin pie recipes out there, and I spent quite a bit of time experimenting with what kind of recipe I wanted to make (should I go the molasses route? go traditional? spice it up with some alcohol?) I, of course, went with the latter. I used this recipe for a…