Recommended Resources

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What are your favorite recipe books? I mean, what are you tried-and-true faithful resources for finding a satisfying casserole, an amazing bread recipe, an hors d’oeuvres everyone will remember?
Comment with titles, authors, magazines, websites, whatever you use on regular basis.

Inspiration

I’m always thinking I’d like to add more pictures to Needs More Butter. This entry has some thoughts about food photography, and a lot of links worth checking out. And, speaking of great pictures of food, Andrea Scher has some beautiful pics of a Harvest Party she attended.
I have absolutely no shame when it comes [...]

Inspiration

Halloween has passed, but I forgot to share this marginally food-related link. The first and fourth costumes here are so, so disturbing, and yet they make me laugh really hard.
Smitten Kitchen featured some apple pancakes that look worth the trouble. And pumpkin pie.
I’m starting to think about what I might like to make/bring for Thanksgiving. [...]

Inspiration

While I am shocked (shocked!) at her nonlove for Trader Joe’s, Margie Haack has a hummus recipe looks yummy. (We need to get Joie’s roasted red pepper hummus recipe on here.)
I’m always looking for new soup recipes, especially this time of year. This black bean chili sounds like it has a lot going on, but [...]

Inspiration: Halloween edition

I have quite a few links to share this week, but I think I might hold most of them until early next week (I’m planning to participate in NaBloPoMo on The Grand, and I’m thinking about doing so here as well–if I do, I’ll need to stretch it out). In the meantime, it’s not too [...]

Inspiration

Now, where was I? Muddly brain. Here are some links:
Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Say no more, I’m there.
Jane Maynard of This Week for Dinner claims this is the perfect cookie. That’s plausible, and if I get around to making it, I’ll report back. Via.
I have lately been a little obsessed with Ace [...]

Inspiration

I haven’t done too much cooking this week, but here are some of the things I’ve been thinking about:
The Pioneer Woman has a great tutorial on how to make pumpkin puree and then an idea of how to use it. I got some organic canned pumpkin from Target for Simon. It seems to me to [...]

Inspiration

This week Bethany wrote a really great post about the food blogs she reads (and, yay, she mentioned us!). I went ahead and added all her picks to the blogroll (I trust you, B). And it also gave me an idea: I added a category called “Inspiration,” and every week or so (starting with this [...]