Tagged ‘fall’
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Tis the season for pie…
By Ken Haedrich
Recipe: Baked Apple Dumpling Pie
Summary: If this pie sounds like a cross between baked apples and apple dumplings, well, it is. It’s baked with a top pastry only, which molds itself around the apples so handsomely that I don’t even bother to invert the pie, lest the pastry vanish beneath the apples. I use Golden Delicious apples here because they hold their shape well. They’re halved, cored, and placed in the pan in a pool of melted butter, brown sugar, and raspberry preserves. A raisin– brown sugar–walnut mixture is spooned into the hollowed cores, à la baked apples, then the pastry is draped over the top, and the pie is baked. Since this bakes up in individual mounds, you don’t slice it like a regular pie. Rather, you scoop out the mounds—which look like halved apple dumplings—and serve them with the pan juices. Excellent alone, but even better with chilled Vanilla Custard Sauce.
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Patate e Funghi al Forno
Recipe: “Patate e Funghi al Forno” – Oven-baked Potatoes and Mushrooms
Summary: This guileless dish from the cookery of Apulia in southern Italy demonstrates the culinary conceptions that result from combining simple, local ingredients and meeting the demands of the population for a certain taste. And, of course, this baked dish is a very logical accompaniment to an earthy roast lamb.
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Soak up the last of fall veggies
Recipe: Fall Vegetable Tart
Summary: This rustic vegetable tart is one of my favorites, and I make it often—with whatever cheese I happen to have on hand. Fontina is my favorite (the version here), with soft goat cheese (crumbled rather than grated) a close contender. Gruyère and cheddar both work, although I find their flavors a little too assertive against the sweet roasted vegetables. This is a very adaptable tart, however, so feel free to experiment with different cheeses and different vegetables. Then add a green salad for a delicious light meal.
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Culinary Costumes
As darkness slowly starts to creep into the early hours of the day, decaying leaves scatter the quiet streets, and an eerie chill begins to fill the air, this can only mean one thing– Halloween is coming!
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Cortlands and Spencers and Jonagolds, oh my!
I tend to avoid making seasonal bucket lists. Some years, Shakespeare on the Common, trips to Cape Cod, and bike rides along the Charles River are too ambitious for one summer. In reality, I know that a ski trip, Bruins game, and ice skating on Frog Pond in the Boston Common probably won’t all happen this winter. But fall is different. I cannot let a single fall pass without partaking in one very important autumnal activity: apple picking.
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Cinnamon Affogatos in Jars
Recipe: Cinnamon-Spiced Affogatos
Ingredients
- Ground espresso beans, enough for 4 shots
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more for garnish
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- 2 cups caramel or salted caramel gelato
Instructions
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Pumpkin Cheesecakes in Jars
Recipe: Pumpkin Cheesecakes with a Gingersnap Crust
Ingredients
- For the crust:
- Oil for greasing the jars
- 3 cups gingersnaps, ground into crumbs
- 6 tablespoons (¾ stick) unsalted butter, melted
- For the cheesecake:
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Happy Friday! Sip this!
Recipe: Colonial Flip
Summary: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” —Benjamin Franklin
Ingredients
- 10 ounces barleywine
- 1 ounce unsulfured molasses
- 2 tablespoons canned pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
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Pumpkin Day
September 21st marked the first annual Pumpkin Day at our house. My five housemates and I dreamt up the holiday as a way to self-regulate and curb our enthusiasm about all things fall-related. We are somewhat notorious among friends for jumping the gun on seasonal cheer. Last year, we not-so-accidentally got in the habit of playing Christmas carols every morning. In October. So this year’s Pumpkin Day was created as a precaution against overdosing on fall festivities.
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Congratulations Victoria Wise, Cookstr’s Author of the Day!
We are humbled to announce that our own Victoria Wise is Cookstr’s Author of the Day! It is always such a pleasure to see the talents that Cookstr chooses to highlight, but we have to admit, the pleasure is a little greater when it’s an author we’ve had the privilege to work with.Read more on Congratulations Victoria Wise, Cookstr’s Author of the Day!…
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Thanksgiving Recap
I’ve never been great at cooking a turkey.
Or stuffing. Or perfectly-whipped mashed potatoes. Or apple pie.
So, I contributed to my family’s Thanksgiving dinner this year with two of my other favorite parts of a meal: appetizers and drinks.
