THANKSGIVING: Pumpkin Cheesecake

We don’t know what condition we’ll be in at the end of the main course on Thanksgiving. But if there’s no room for our pumpkin cheesecake, we’ll happily eat it over the weekend. (Sorry, NIBBLE colleagues, there won’t be any left to bring in on Monday.) We’re trying a new recipe this year, but here…
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THANKSGIVING: Spiced Cider Recipe

If it’s nippy outside over Thanksgiving, greet dinner guests and holiday weekend visitors with a glass of hot spiced cider. Add some rum, and you’ve got an apple rum toddy. A toddy is a warm cocktail made with spirits or sherry, boiling water, sugar and spices. Warm alcoholic beverages such as glögg, mulled wine and…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Indian Pudding Day

Indian pudding. Photo courtesy Tammy Donroe, FoodOnTheFood.com.   Today is National Indian Pudding Day. Indian pudding, a New England specialty, is a pudding served hot or warm, made of cornmeal, milk, molasses and spices. It’s a richer, sweetened form of hasty pudding, a porridge of cornmeal cooked in milk or water. (Remember the song, Yankee…
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