Best Easy Pumpkin Pie with Salted Pecan Crumble
The Thanksgiving potluck was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten I signed up for dessert. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s heirloom recipes—the … Read more
Zesty Cranberry Orange Relish with Fresh Ginger: Easy 15-Minute Recipe
I was standing in the frozen foods aisle last November, staring at a bag of cranberries like it held the answer to a question I … Read more
Best Classic Sausage and Sage Stuffing Recipe from Scratch
My grandmother’s neighbor, Mrs. Gable, was the stuffing queen of our block. Every Thanksgiving, she’d bring over a massive Pyrex dish of her famous sausage … Read more
Best Maple Bourbon Sweet Potato Casserole (Easy & Perfect!)
I wasn’t trying to reinvent Thanksgiving. Honestly, I was just trying to get out of my own head. It was a Tuesday afternoon in early … Read more
Best Slow-Roasted Herb Butter Turkey Breast: Easy & Juicy
I was elbow-deep in potting soil on a rainy Saturday afternoon, wrestling a stubborn fern into a slightly-too-small ceramic pot, when my mailman, Gary, started … Read more
Best Brown Sugar Glazed Ham for Thanksgiving Dinner
This was supposed to be a roasted chicken. I know, right? Thanksgiving, the biggest food holiday of the year, and I had a chicken in … Read more
Adorable Black Cat Sugar Cookies for Halloween
My niece asked why I couldn’t just use a store-bought cookie cutter for the cat shape instead of making a template from scratch. I started … Read more
Crispy Roasted Garlic Parmesan Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
It was 10:47 PM on a rainy Wednesday, and I had just finished carving a pumpkin that was never meant to be a jack-o’-lantern. I’d … Read more
Easy Spooky Graveyard Dirt Pudding Cups: Best Halloween Treat
The summer I turned thirty, I threw a Halloween party in July. It was hot, humid, and completely ridiculous, but I had this vision of … Read more
Easy Halloween Rice Krispie Treat Pops: 3-Ingredient Fun
My neighbor, a retired kindergarten teacher named Margie, watched me wrestling with a bag of marshmallows that had somehow turned into a single, rock-hard clump. … Read more