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Pumpkin Gingersnap Cookies
One of my sister’s and my favorite Christmas cookies is a molasses crinkle cookie and when I saw this recipe for pumpkin gingersnap cookies, I knew I had to make these for her. I have no idea when or how it started, but my sister and I started calling each other pumpkin. I know there’s […]
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Pumpkin Buttermilk Bundt Cake
I absolutely love fall foods and can’t get enough of all the pumpkin foods so prevalent this time of year. There’s of course the pumpkin cinnamon roll pancakes, which may well be my most favorite of all, there’s pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, and even pumpkin pie soda from Maine Root (which I was initially wary […]
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Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
When I said I was raring to go to start making fall foods, I had this at the very forefront of my mind. Allow me introduce you to the most decadent, extravagant, and tastiest pancakes you have ever met: pumpkin cinnamon roll pancakes. These fabulous go-getters go above and beyond the mere pancake (which, let’s […]
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Cornbread Salad With Black Beans, Red Bell Peppers, and Cherry Tomatoes
As much as I love fall, I’ve been happy that it has still been fairly warm in Boston. Most importantly, the farmers’ market still has tomatoes and honestly, that’s all I need to fend off fears of snow and ice. I love fall and living in New England, it doesn’t really get any better. The […]
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The Easiest Chocolate Cake Recipe in the World
I’ve been sharing all these fantastic birthday celebration treats and this one takes the cake (ha!) as far as ease goes. I am convinced this is the easiest chocolate cake recipe in the world. I even googled “easiest chocolate cake recipe in the world” to see what would come up and I was honestly really disappointed with the […]
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Three Layer Chocolate Cake With Marshmallow Frosting
My dad’s birthday is only six days after mine and when I was growing up that meant that we always had two cakes at our big family birthday parties. There was one for me that was usually yellow Duncan Hines with chocolate frosting and then his, which was always, always a chocolate cake with marshmallow […]
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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
Another peanut butter and chocolate recipe? Yup, that’s because the next birthday was Joseph’s. Now, one of the very first things I learned about Joseph was his love of chocolate and raspberries together, so the obvious choice would have been the most amazing chocolate raspberry cake ever, but that is one mondo cake and I […]
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Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pound Cake With Peanut Butter Glaze
Ok, so Pixelated Crumb is way overdue for a recipe and I promised you some yummy birthday celebration desserts and I’m here to deliver! August and September are busy months for Joseph and me because they’re full of birthdays of friends and family (including my own!). First up is Mark, my brother-in-law. When I think […]
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Northern Exposure: A Trip to Burlington and Montreal
Joseph and I have been trying to get to Burlington, VT all summer. We wanted to go to celebrate our second anniversary back in June, but our plans changed when I had to go to DC for work. We rescheduled for the weekend of July 4th, but then my knee surgery was scheduled for July […]
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Lightened Up Corn Chowder
This lightened up corn chowder is not only healthier, but tastier with a more prominent corn flavor that's rounded out with bacon and fresh thyme and basil.
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Cherry Compote
Over the last few weeks I’ve become increasingly annoyed by the number of people talking about summer drawing to a close, the fall catalogs piling up at my door, and Halloween candy appearing in the grocery store. I wanted to scream, “No, summer is not over! There’s tons of summer left!” But now that August […]
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S’mores Pie
Nothing brings back the excitement of summer as a kid like a toasty golden brown marshmallow. Ok, let’s be realistic, mine were usually crispy and blackened…. But I just love s’mores. There’s nothing like getting marshmallows all over your hands and mouth as you take your first bite. The warm, gooey marshmallow, the crunchy graham […]
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Cherry Almond Muffins
My last post was all about loss, heartbreak, and an outrageously rich pie, so I’m going to try to lighten things up this week. Last weekend, after making the peanut butter pie for Mikey, Joseph and I went to meet Zoe, the 3 1/2 week old baby of our friends, Christina and Adam. Her amazing, full, dark […]
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Creamy Peanut Butter Pie
Like the rest of the food blogging community, I was shocked and horrified by the news that Jennifer Perillo’s husband, Mikey, passed away quite unexpectedly of a heart attack last Sunday. My jaw dropped and tears streamed down my face when I read Jennifer’s twitter feed that day, which went from counting down the days to […]
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Bifana – Sliced Pork Tenderloin With Caramelized Onions and Garlic Aioli on Focaccia
The coupon for $15 off at Ceia Kitchen and Bar in Newburyport, MA that I got at the Techmunch conference a few weeks ago was all the motivation we needed to make a day trip. Joseph and I headed to Newburyport for my first real excursion since knee surgery and I hobbled around town moving […]
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Spinach and Cheese Strata
I’ve never been much of a breakfast person, but boy do I love brunch. Growing up, breakfast was always this big question mark of what I was going to throw down my gullet before running to catch the bus to school. I seriously detested milk which meant that cereal was out of the question (so soggy, so […]
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Hiyayakko (Japanese Cold Tofu)
Well, it’s August now and it’s gonna be a hot one. I grew up in Washington, D.C., a city where all the locals know enough to flee for as much of August as they can to avoid the sickeningly hot, sticky days (and nights). Did you know that D.C. was actually built on a swamp? […]
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Shrimp Burgers With Homemade Roasted Garlic-Orange Aioli
This is another one of those recipes that I passed on to Joseph and helpfully suggested that he could make it for me if he wanted. Actually, I found this recipe through the same Food 52 e-mail as those killer ribs, so I’m clearly onto something, because these shrimp burgers were pretty amazing too. While […]
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Celebrity Chef Showdown: Chef Waxman vs. Chef Santos
It’s been almost exactly a year since I started this blog and if you had told me then that I would get to meet Chef Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto because of Pixelated Crumb, I never would have believed you. When I first heard about the opportunity to be a judge at the Cadillac Culinary Challenge in Dedham, […]
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Raspberry Swirl and Brownie Ice Cream
I hope that everyone had a wonderful National Ice Cream Day last Sunday! If you missed it and didn’t have any ice cream (shame on you!), don’t panic, July is National Ice Cream Month. You’ve got the rest of the month fulfill your duty to dig your spoon into that bowl or get your fingers […]
