Cuisine Capers

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The pumpkin pies are done!  But, to quibble, I feel the need to point out that they are not pumpkin pies.  They are butternut squash pies.
Thanks to my involvement in a terrific CSA, I learned years ago that good pumpkin pies… aren’t.  In fact, often the canned pumpkin that one buys in the store is [...]

One of the side dishes that disappears fast at our Thanksgiving table is the Cheese Sauce.  In many ways, it is really a side of a side dish, served up alongside the broccoli and cauliflower, though I will note that in reality it gets poured over almost everything on the plates, very much like a [...]

I’ll start with a quick look behind the scenes.  You see this picture?  Yes, the picture on the left.  The Thanksgiving-oriented picture.  Yes, that one.
 This blog gets literally hundreds of hits a day around this time of year from people who are searching for this picture. Oh, they don’t know that this is exactly the [...]

Last night, dead tired, I tumbled into bed somewhat early.  I picked up a book for a little bedtime reading.  It just happened to be this book:
Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors from the Southwestern Kitchen
Read more about this book here…
I wasn’t awake for long… just long enough to become obsessed with his [...]