Spooky Monster Eyeball Deviled Eggs – Easy Halloween Appetizer
My nephew, Leo, asked me why I couldn’t just use olives instead of piping the yolk mixture into the egg whites. I started to explain … Read more
Cozy Severed Finger Hot Dogs with Almond Nails: Easy Halloween Recipe
It was 11:17 PM on a particularly dreary Tuesday in October, and I had a very specific craving for something unsettlingly adorable. The power had … Read more
Savory Roasted Kabocha Squash with Miso Butter: Easy & Best Side Dish
I was staring at a kabocha squash on my counter for three days. It had been sitting there since my last farmers market haul, looking … Read more
Easy No-Bake Halloween Spider Web Cheesecake Bites
The silence in my kitchen that afternoon was broken by a sound I hadn’t heard in months — the high-pitched, delighted squeal of my seven-year-old … Read more
Easy Make-Ahead Sausage and Egg Breakfast Casserole
I burned my first three breakfast casseroles. Not a little brown around the edges—I mean charcoal on the bottom, raw egg in the middle, the … Read more
Easy Candy Corn Bark Recipe with White Chocolate
My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, watched me trying to balance a grocery bag, my keys, and a toddler who had decided that the sidewalk was lava. … Read more
Cozy Jack-o-Lantern Stuffed Peppers: Best Halloween Dinner
My sister had claimed for years that she hated stuffed peppers. Years. A full decade of eye-rolling at every family dinner that featured them, of … Read more
Easy Mini Mummy Hot Dogs: Perfect Halloween Appetizer
The puff pastry is the thing. Not the hot dog, not the mustard, not even the little candy eyes. It’s the way the dough gets … Read more
Easy Homemade Bloody Halloween Punch (Non-Alcoholic)
The neighborhood Halloween block party was in four hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, completely. I was standing in my kitchen, still in my … Read more
Easy Pumpkin Spice Witches Hat Cookies Recipe
I was standing in the baking aisle of our local grocery store last October when a kid walked past me clutching one of those plastic … Read more