Chestnut Soup

Chestnut Soup

Rich and sweet, Chestnut Soup made with butternut squash is gluten free and vegan (with optional dairy garnish.) Luxurious first course for an elegant meal! Last year I found, and we feasted on, ready to use roasted and peeled chestnuts. Looking through old posts I 

Vegan Stuffed Pumpkin

Vegan Stuffed Pumpkin

A Vegan Stuffed Pumpkin gives everyone an impressive dish to serve at a Thanksgiving dinner. It’s the last week of October. Most of us are in full Halloween mode (as far as holidays go, at any rate) or wrapped up in the World Series (Is 

Gingerbread Spice Blend

Gingerbread Spice Blend

Gingerbread Spice – a simple blend to make at home, and then use in all kinds of recipes for that quick gingerbread flavor.   All right, this is sort of a quick one thrown in along the way…   I’m playing with ideas for gingerbread 

Potato Pancakes – Latkes

Potato Pancakes – Latkes

Potato pancakes – or latkes – are traditional for both Hanukkah and Christmas for people from Eastern European cultures. But you don’t need a holiday to enjoy them – they are delicious!   My senior year in college, I shared an off-campus apartment with another 

Giving Thanks and Inhabiting the Kitchen

Giving Thanks and Inhabiting the Kitchen

I didn’t really plan Thanksgiving week to be a perfect Proof of Concept of the Inhabited Kitchen approach to cooking and meal planning – but it was. As I mentioned last Wednesday, I had a particularly difficult string of unusually bad migraines. Ending, in fact,