and such, but canned allows me to not have to plan ahead. Campbell’s tomato is my comfort food of choice when feeling sick. Canned pineapple and mandarin oranges are great in the winter for making a dish a little sunnier....

a developed paplate to appreciate (I’m not there). I have to agree with so many posts that Schmidtt, for the most part has a waxy taste. I do like those spicy pumpkins at Thanksgiving and I love the barks. However, Schmidts...

I enjoy giving (and receiving homemade food gifts) as well. I’ve made and/or received: salsa, hot mustard, pepper jelly, bourbon balls, peppermint bark, pretzels dipped in chocolate (then rolled in nuts), biscotti, cookies...

I have a huge amount of various jams and jellies ready to go. Also, I am making doggie biscuits for my friends that have dogs. Linen sprays and bath salts as well. I am also going to try caramels and various flavored barks. I...

/sample area, they were baking little pumpkin cake samples from their boxed mix. My friend and I tried it; both of us thought it was “eh”. I figured I could do better with canned pumpkin and lots of spices. However, I...

I’ve always enjoyed making peppermint bark for people. For my edible gifts this year, I was going to research different cultures and try to reproduce Christmas specialties that you usually don’t see served/made that...

are my favorite, and last week I had a fabulous peach-mint sorbet. Ken also makes a Kabocha pumpkin creme caramel that is amazing. It’s not too sweet and, unlike a lot of pumpkin desserts, has no cinnamon. However, if you...

’s tang. Yam gnocchi reinvented the wheel on my plate as I relished in the fact that gnocchi = potato, so why not have gnocchi= sweet potato? These pumpkin hued gobs of goodness were tossed with rock shrimp, hericort verts,...

from Taylor Shellfish – I asked the server because they were so good), then halibut kabob, chicken kabob, and pumpkin risotto from the pinxto choices and liquid chocolate cake with expresso ice cream for dessert. My partner...

is that your experience was not unusual. For the most part it is about looks rather than taste. I do like the pumpkin shaped truffle in the fall which has a deep pumpkin pie taste. I also like their bark quite a bit. Ditto ......

I wouldn’t recommend Barking Crab, though a few folks here seem to like it.

Soup, which looked wonderful, except that I’d had a butternut squash bisque that night before. I also went awry on my entree, the Roasted Pumpkin Risotto. Occasionally, I don’t read closely enough and this time I...

. Alternatively, you could look at Barking Dog on 94th and 3rd (212.831.1800‎), but beware, they don’t accept credit cards.

I’m in charge of our church’s bake sale, to be held Sunday 10/22. I’ll be making some of my old stand-bys (pumpkin spice muffins, chocolate cupcakes, butter thumbprint cookies, snickerdoodles, maybe scones), but...

a number of thumbs of on the board. Acme also makes a pumpkin bread with pumpkin pulp and pie spices, raisins and cranberries. CRIXA Oohhh, I just noticed the Crixa website says they sell their Buche de Noel by the slice. I’m...