
Posts for October 2010
Recipe of the Day: Slow-Cooker Chili
Think ahead this Halloween: throw the ingredients for this hearty chili in the slow cooker and when you come home from trick-or-treating, a delicious meal will be waiting for you!
Would You Rather Eat Caramel Apples or Popcorn Balls?

Visions of candy corn and Reese's Pieces may be dancing in your head this Halloween, but let's not forget some of the ghoulish holiday's other popular sweet treats: gooey caramel apples and salty-sweet popcorn balls. Which do you prefer?
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What's Yummy This Week — YumSugar Weekly Recap
- Easy homemade Halloween candy: black-and-orange chocolate bark.
- Host an All Souls' Eve-themed dinner party before heading out to celebrate.
- Educate yourself on global candy culture with confections from around the world.
- Beyond pumpkin pie: 10 other ways to use pureed pumpkin.
- Can you tell what culinary slang is real and what's totally made up?
- Every World Series game will be a winner with homemade Cracker Jacks.
- Match Bobby Flay's regional burgers to the right place.
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Pumpkin Desserts: Love Them or Hate Them?
It's that time of year when pumpkin is popping up everywhere from cocktail menus to frozen yogurt shops. While I love a good pumpkin dessert, be it pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake, or pumpkin cookies, not everyone is a fan of the taste and texture. How do you feel about them?
Recipe of the Day: Jell-O Shots
It's the day before Halloween, why not get the party started with an old-school treat: Jell-O shots?!
Happy Hour: Pumpkin Mojito
This October, pumpkin puree is the hottest seasonal ingredient to stir into cocktails. After noticing it in a recent recipe, I've seen it in countless other concoctions. One that caught my eye is this Fall-themed orange mojito. The combination of spiced rum, muddled mint, brown sugar, lime juice, and pumpkin puree is wonderfully balanced and quite refreshing. The pumpkin doesn't overpower the drink, instead it enhances the flavor of the rum. It's made like any other mojito, so you will need a muddler. Since rum is the only spirit, select a high-quality one like Cruzan's aged spiced rum. To give this cocktail a try — I promise you won't be disappointed — keep reading.
