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After four days of hosting my in-laws, hanging out with my visiting sister, shopping, eating and lots and lots of cooking and baking, I’m exhausted. But what a great weekend it was…I’m so sad it’s over and that I have to go to work tomorrow!

This year was my first hosting Thanksgiving dinner, and I have to [...]

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Two words can sum up this pie: So Delicious. Or even: So perfect. I served this Dorie’s Thanksgiving Twofer Pie as the finale to my first Thanksgiving feast, and boy, I think it’s safe to say that everyone went home very happy. So for that–thank you, Dorie Greenspan!

I should say, though, that this pie didn’t [...]

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This year will have been 15 years since I last spent a Thanksgiving with my family. Which is crazy considering how close my we all are, and how much we all love food. It’s even crazier considering that this holiday, more so than any other, was the one my mother was famous for among our [...]

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If you’re looking for this week’s pick for Tuesdays with Dorie, Thanksgiving Twofer Pie, fret not–I’ll be posting it later this week. It will (hopefully) be the centerpiece of my Thanksgiving dinner, which I’ll be hosting this year (yay!). In the meantime, how about a cookie?
So are you sick of pumpkin yet? Hope not, because [...]

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I’ve had some pumpkin puree in my freezer for a while now, leftover from the Pumpkin Cake I made last month. I was going to use it for a dessert, but on a recent cold and blustery Chicago day, I found myself wanting something for dinner that was comforting and cozy, and it seemed to [...]

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