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Homemade Cranberry Sauce

I used to be a canned cranberry sauce person. Not proud of it, but there it is — the can, the ridges, the slightly ominous jiggle. Then one year I ran out at the store and had to make it…

Leftover Halloween Candy Cookie Bars

November 1st and there’s a bowl of half-unwrapped candy sitting on the counter that nobody’s touching anymore. That’s the exact moment these bars are for. Not a “fun way to repurpose candy” — a real dumping ground, chopped up and…

Halloween Cupcakes

I’ve made a lot of “cute for the holidays” desserts that end up looking like a toddler got loose with the sprinkles. These Halloween cupcakes were the first batch where the decorating actually worked on the first try. A rich…

Tomato, Chickpea & Feta Pasta

I burned the first batch of this. Not badly — just enough feta browning at the edges of the dish that I panicked and pulled it five minutes early, before the tomatoes had really given up their juice. The sauce…

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

I used to make a full round pumpkin cheesecake every year, springform pan and all, and the water bath leaks and the finicky release always made me dread it a little. Bars fixed that. Same flavor, same texture, none of…

Crockpot Broccoli Cheddar Chicken Orzo

Some nights I don’t have it in me to stand over a pot stirring risotto-adjacent anything. That’s basically what this is — broccoli cheddar soup and chicken and orzo had a baby, and the slow cooker did all the actual…