Risotto with Roasted Butternut Squash

Last week I worked a couple of night shifts.
I used to have a position where I worked nights for a month at a time, every three months. That was too much for me. Over the course of the weeks, I’d start to feel more and more ghost-like, spending my days alone and my nights [...]

Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing

Hello fall!
Um, actually, that would have been more accurate about a month ago during the exactly two-day period that it was autumnal here.
Fall here leaves me wanting. One day the leaves are amber, gold, red; the next, they are brown, scattered, shredded on the ground. I want more time when there is only a [...]

Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Pastries

I was first intrigued by this combination when I saw a posting about butternut squash and caramelized onion in a galette that referred me back to Smitten Kitchen. I printed it out and was ready to go until I looked over the instructions for the galette’s pastry and got a bit confused. I’m not going [...]

Nutmeg Shortbread

I am completely addicted to other food blogs and find my need for a quick fix completely appeased by Foodgawker and Tastespotting. No, no, go on, take a look. I’ll wait. (Although, some of you, hopefully have just come from there.)
As a result, an ever-growing list of recipes to try is starting to clog up [...]