Recipe for incorporating antioxidant-packed spices into one’s diet. This year’s recipe came out of my need to find some way to incorporate cloves and cinnamon into my family’s diet. Filling ingredients One can of pumpkin, about 10 ounces of silken tofu, one to two dozen pitted dates, depending how sweet your sweet tooth is. Then, you add…

“Sheet Pan Sweets” landed on my desk recently, and I thought it was a great book addition for Seriously Simple cooks. Sheet pans have changed the way many of us cook. They’re soo easy and help minimize clean-up. In Molly Gilbert’s book she divides the categories into sheet cakes, layered and rolled cakes, bars, cookies,…

Do you need to refrigerate pumpkin pie? Ellen Shumaker has some food safety tips for the fall. Here, Shumaker, a North Carolina State University food safety expert, shares her top tips for staying healthy during pumpkin season: 1. Storing Pumpkin Pie You should refrigerate homemade pies that contain fillings with eggs, such as pumpkin, custard, or cream pies….