Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Make Savory Pumpkin Recipes

Posted on by thenibble

Add pumpkin to your pasta. This delicious baked ziti recipe uses sausage and spinach as well. Photo courtesy Libby’s.   Last year, America’s pumpkin growers produced almost 1.5 billion pounds of the colorful winter squash. Pumpkin production peaks in October, with the demand for jack o’lanterns and pumpkin pie. Not to mention pumpkin brownies, pumpkin…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: Make Savory Pumpkin Recipes” →

TIP OF THE DAY: Make Radish Eyeballs For Adult Halloween Food

Posted on by thenibble

How about some “eyeball” nibbles with your Halloween cocktails? This healthy hors d’oeuvre or snack uses a radish base for the white and “veins” of the eyeball. The pupil and iris are a pimento-stuffed olive. All you have to do is peel the radishes and insert the olives (buy large radishes and small olives). Fun…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: Make Radish Eyeballs For Adult Halloween Food” →

Red Candy Apples History & Recipe

Posted on by thenibble

[1] Candy apples are a Halloween favorite (photo © Sevenmarie Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0). [2] Add some protein and decoration with chopped nuts or seeds (photo © M. Studio | Fotolia). [3] Instead of hobby store sticks, gather twigs (photo © Foodie Crush | Go Bold With Butter).   Yesterday we published a recipe for caramel…
Continue reading “Red Candy Apples History & Recipe” →

Homemade Caramel Apple Recipe & All The Apple Holidays

Posted on by thenibble

Here’s a different approach to caramel apples (also called toffee apples*): Use pretty twigs instead of the same old predictable wood popsicle/craft sticks. The recipe comes from the book Sugar, Sugar: Every Recipe Has a Story, by Kimberly “Momma” Reiner and Jenna Sanz-Agero. The book will be published on October 25th, but you can order…
Continue reading “Homemade Caramel Apple Recipe & All The Apple Holidays” →

RECIPE: Candy Corn Cones For Fall & Halloween

Posted on by thenibble

Candy corn is great as a garnish during the fall season in general, and Halloween in particular season.     EASY CANDY CORN GARNISHES Cupcakes Use candy corn as a cupcake topping. Create a circle of candy corn kernels around the rim of the cupcake. You can stand one kernel in the middle of the…
Continue reading “RECIPE: Candy Corn Cones For Fall & Halloween” →