Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

These Pumpkin Snickerdoodles have a thin crispy outside with a soft inside.  Not too cake-like and just enough spice.  I ate 4 just to make sure they were perfect and could have gone for another if I weren’t on a…

Healthy Pumpkin Pecan Scones

Scones and hot tea are one of my favorite autumn breakfasts. I made the first batch of pumpkin scones for the Fit Mama meal plans. They were delicious and just happen to be both gluten free and dairy free.  Then…

Southwest Butternut Chicken Stew

A few years ago I was searching for butternut squash recipes and found a beautiful picture of a chicken stew.  I clicked over to read the recipe and was immediately disappointed.  The black bits in the stew were olives, and…

Pumpkin Sugar Cookie Cutouts

These soft rolled sugar cookies have a nice pumpkin spice flavor but are not too cake like.  They hold their shape while baking and with the pumpkin spice glaze are pretty much irresistible.  It’s a Coffman original recipe.

How to make pumpkin puree

  While canned pumpkin is really delicious, it’s super easy to make homemade pumpkin puree to use in all your fantastic recipes.  Homemade puree freezes really well for year long stockpiling. Even though pumpkin pie, bread, doughnuts, pancakes, cookies, muffins…..dot…

Pumpkin Spice Mix

At the last minute, I decided to participate in the Write 31 Days blog challenge.  I participated two years ago and loved how it challenged me to post more often. I took the year off last year, but am jumping back…