RECIPE: Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce

Bread pudding is a Southern classic that can be tweaked to become a fall special with the addition of pumpkin purée. This recipe, from Heidi of FoodieCrush, not only adds the pumpkin, but tops the bread pudding with a bourbon pecan sauce. Says Heidi: “With bourbon pecan and caramelized pecans topping a bread pudding made…
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Bananas Foster Recipe: Use It As A Topping & Garnish

As a lover of both chocolate cake and Bananas Foster, we were inspired by the creative use of Bananas Foster at Davio’s Italian Steakhouse in Boston (see photo). It’s traditionally used to top ice cream. It’s a most delicious addition. At Davio’s, a slice of flourless chocolate cake is topped with a slice of caramelized…
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RECIPE: White Chocolate Pumpkin Fondue

For pumpkin season, treat everyone to this White Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Fondue from The Melting Pot, with a few modifications from THE NIBBLE. Why not make it this weekend? Don’t like to cook? Find the nearest Melting Pot. > The history of chocolate fondue is below. > Chocolate fondue recipes. > A year of…
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RECIPE: Apple Crisp With Ambrosia Apples

Contributing Editor Rowann Gilman returned from picking Ambrosia apples in Washington’s Wenatchee Valley, glowing over the food and restaurants there. If you didn’t catch her report on the apples, here it is. She brought back an apple crisp recipe that she can’t wait to have again. Since fall is prime apple crisp season, it arrives…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cinnamon Pecan Topping

For holiday season, it’s good to have a trick up your sleeve that quickly turns everyday food into festive food. We nominate homemade cinnamon pecan topping, which can be used to garnish both sweet and savory foods. See our list of uses below. You can use any nut, but pecan goes particularly well in this…
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