12 of our favorite recipes featuring pumpkin. If you love this fall flavor, we've got you covered with sweet and savory recipes! Everywhere you look it seems like you can find something pumpkin spice flavored. While it can get a bit extreme, we think it's popular for a reason! These recipes feature this favorite fall flavor and celebrate the season. If you're in the mood to bake, we've got lots ...
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Ridiculously Easy Sugar Top Scones
The easiest and most melt-in-your-mouth delicious scones ever! These easy sugar top scones can be made ahead and frozen (unbaked) for fuss-free entertaining too! Sadly, my siblings are spread all over this country so we don't get to see each other nearly as often as we'd like. So when I extended an invitation a while back to all 5 of my sisters to spend a long weekend at our home here in North ...
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Overnight No-Knead Brioche Bread
Stir together this one-bowl, Overnight No-Knead Brioche Bread before bed. When you rise, it will be ready to shape and bake. It's the most tender, buttery bread that's wonderful for toast, sandwiches or for your next dinner party! Have you heard the phrase "one-armed paper hanger"? Well, I can identify, because I am currently a "one-footed cook". Yep, I broke my foot about a week and a half ago ...
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Ireland, Off the Beaten Path (part 3)
Highlights of our three weeks in Ireland; not all the quintessential tourist destinations, but fun, fascinating, beautiful beyond description. Come join us, The Café in Ireland, Off the Beaten Path (Part 3)! We're sharing our final Ireland post today, the last in a three-part series called "Ireland, Off the Beaten Path. Part 1 and Part 2 cover the areas between Dublin, Cork and then up the coast ...
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10 Healthy Soup Recipes for Fall
Ten of our favorite healthy, make-ahead, delicious soup recipes that are perfect for welcoming the new fall season. I am so excited to welcome this new season - soup season, that is! Do you eat soup year-round? I certainly could, but my family feels differently, so I try and wait for the temperatures to cool off a bit. Soup makes such a great meal and it's even better as leftovers. These ...
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Easy Praline Pumpkin Muffins
These one-bowl, easy Praline Pumpkin Muffins are moist and bursting with delicious flavor. The crunchy pecan praline topping takes them over the top! It seems that everyone is getting into that "autumn" frame of mind. I can tell because, for the past few weeks, I've been getting lots of emails and comments about this Better than Starbucks Pumpkin Bread recipe. Everyone seems to love this easy, ...
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Ireland, Off the Beaten Path – Part 2
Highlights of three weeks in Ireland; not all the quintessential tourist destinations, but fun, fascinating, beautiful beyond description Ireland. Come join us, The Café in Ireland, Off the Beaten Path (part 2 of 3) We're back today with part 2 of our Ireland, Off the Beaten Path series. Thanks so much for all your kind and thoughtful comments on Scott's first post in the series. He left off last ...
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8 Great Salads for Fall
A healthy and delicious way to welcome the new season, these salads feature our favorite fall ingredients and flavors. Fall is almost here! Although we're having a little warm spell, the trees here are beginning to turn red and yellow. One of our favorite things about the changing seasons is welcoming new flavors and ingredients. A salad is a fresh, delicious way to showcase fall produce and ...
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Fall Spice Cake with Maple Glaze
This one-bowl, no-mixer, Fall Spice Cake with Maple Glaze is sure to become a favorite. It takes minutes to throw together and the aroma, as it bakes, is unbelievable! If you haven't noticed, one-bowl, no-mixer cakes are my specialty when it comes to baking. It's just so nice to not have to drag out equipment and lots of bowls, cups, etc. Maybe it's that I'm a little lazy, but I like to think of ...
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Pumpkin Maple Vinaigrette
This vibrantly-hued, throw-it-all-in-a-jar-and-shake, Pumpkin Maple Vinaigrette is delicious drizzled over all kinds of autumn salads. I like to share this Pumpkin Maple Vinaigrette each year in the early fall. It's one of those seasonal recipes that makes an autumn lunch with friends or a fall dinner party something really special.Although fall isn't officially here for a few more ...
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Ireland, Off the Beaten Path
Highlights of three weeks in Ireland; not all the quintessential tourist destinations, but fun, fascinating, beautiful beyond description Ireland. Come join us, The Café in Ireland, Off the Beaten Path (part 1 of 3)! We've been back from Ireland for a few weeks now but we're still enjoying memories from the delightful trip to the Emerald Isle and thought we'd share a few of them with you. If ...
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12 Recipes to Celebrate Labor Day
Perfect recipes to celebrate the long Labor Day weekend and the end of the summer season. Appetizers, entrees, and desserts, we've got you covered! It's hard to believe that Labor Day weekend is here! While here in the U.S. Labor Day is a holiday to honor working people, it also signals the end of summer. Whether you're celebrating with a cookout or with friends and family, we've got plenty of ...
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