Who doesn’t love Green Bean Casserole on Thanksgiving or Christmas? Well, for years, I didn’t. The idea of dumping a can of cream of [insert vegetable or meat] soup on top of some canned green beans with some crunchy onions on top sounded like an abomination. Luckily, my culinary prowess has led me to discover …

Pumpkin Pie is a dessert I grew a taste for when I was in college. In yet another edition of “Allison’s Childhood Food Traumas”, I never liked it as a youngster. Why? Because pumpkins were for carving and putting on your front stoop on Halloween. They weren’t for pies! I feel that that rationale from …

This recipe came to fruition as such: Due to working on some future blog posts, I was baking a pumpkin pie at 11 in the morning. I realized I hadn’t had breakfast. I made some oatmeal. I threw dried cranberries in it. I had leftover pumpkin puree, and I decided to add a giant spoonful …

My father has the sweet tooth. My mother loves her salt. I gained my love for all things salty from her, allowing my father to keep the lion’s share of our household sweets to himself. Admittedly, for years, when I go to visit my parents back in Connecticut, my mother has scolded me for stealing …