FOOD FUN: Boston Cream Cupcakes Kit For National Boston Cream Pie Day

October 23rd is National Boston Cream Pie Day. Boston Cream Pie is actually a layer cake, not a pie. Two yellow cake layers are filled with vanilla cream and iced with chocolate ganache. Here’s more about it, and how it got its name—plus a recipe to bake your own from scratch. But let’s skip the…
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RECIPE: Autumn Mac & Cheese

[1] Autumn mac and cheese, with whole wheat pasta, sweet potatoes and kale (photos #1 and #2 © North Carolina Sweet Potatoes). [2] Beautiful sweet potatoes, grown in North Carolina. [3] This variety of kale is variously called black Tuscan, dinosaur or lacinato (photo © Good Eggs).   Macaroni and cheese is a favorite in…
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Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipes & Pumpkin History

[1] Pumpkin Ricotta Cheesecake, less heavy than a cream cheese recipe (photo © Chef Marisa Churchill). [2] No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake. Here’s the recipe (photo © Kenwood World). The year’s 16 cheesecake holidays. > The year’s 8 pumpkin holidays are below.     RECIPE: PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE ICE CREAM Don’t want cake? How about some pumpkin…
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