If you love pumpkin pie and pecan pie, then why not have the two together!! For this past week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, Vibi from La Casserole Carrée selected Thanksgiving Twofer Pie from page 321 of Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from My Home to Yours. And for our Thanksgiving Dinner, it was the perfect ending! ThisRead more

Carlo’s family loves macaroons. So I was going to make some peppermint ones from a Paula Deen recipe. However, Carlo thought it would be better to just do traditional ones. So I found a recipe from another Food Network fave, Ina Gartner, whose recipes I absolutely love. Speaking of which, I have to her newRead more

While gathering recipes for Thanksgiving, my mother-in-law made a request for Carlo’s aunt: A Coconut Custard Pie. Since I had a little more than a pack of graham crackers laying around, I figured I’d make a graham cracker crust for it, but wanted it to be different. The crust recipe is full of coconutty goodness,Read more

As the temp drops, and winter nears, what a better way to stay warm than curled up with a nice big mug of hot cocoa. Considering the cost of GOOD hot cocoa mixes going up, I decided to try to make my own, not just for myself. I used the recipe below is a guideRead more