Whether you are carving Jack ‘O Lanterns or just breaking down pie pumpkins for your annual pumpkin pie, any time you cut into pumpkins you get pumpkin seeds. Like many seeds and nuts, pumpkin seeds are a good source of protein and various vitamins and minerals, which makes them a pretty decent snack. So I…
Pumpkin Butter
Last fall my friend Ami, sent me a jar of pumpkin butter from Trader Joes’. Apparently she didn’t think I’d actually go to the Trader Joe’s that’s less than a block away from my bus stop and buy myself a jar after hearing her rave about it. That and she’s just really nice. It was…
Duck with Cornbread Apple Dressing
We just wrapped up an entire week up in North Dakota duck hunting. There is nothing better than disconnecting for an entire week – and I mean really disconnecting, we barely get cell phone service – watching the sun rise and the sun set every day, riding around North Dakota in the beautiful Sheyenne river…
Glazed Maple Apple Blondies
Although it’s fall and apple season, one thing I like about apples is that they are available all year long without a substantial difference in quality or sweetness – unlike trying to buy strawberries in MN in the winter. That means this doesn’t have to be a seasonal treat. That said, when I’m planning treats…
Carnitas Tamale Casserole
There is this Mexican restaurant my friend Dan took me to in Phoenix and the first time he told me to get the Green Corn Tamale’s with baja sauce which was his wife’s favorite. Wow – were they good. It was my first experience with tamales and I loved them. In fact, he and other…
Slow Cooker Carnitas
Carnitas were never top of my list of things to order at Mexican restaurants until a few years ago, when I was traveling to Charlotte to facilitate new hire training. My co-trainer and I took our new class of associates out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant one night. She had been to this particular…
