butternut squash soup has a warm yellow-orange color.

Butternut Squash Soup

Squash’s high fiber content will help you feel full faster, so starting your meal with a small bowl of soup may reduce your caloric intake overall.

mango sorbet served in a demitasse

Easy, Homemade Mango Sorbet

Experiment with various frozen fruits. You’ll be amazed at how easy and delicious your sorbet really is.

jar filled with simple syrup

How to Make Simple Syrup

Use simple syrup to sweeten iced tea, lemonade, cocktails (bourbon sidecar, cucumber-line craft cocktail), homemade sorbet, salad dressings, smoothies, and the like.  It will become a kitchen staple.

pressing fall leaves retains much of their color

Pressing Fall Leaves – Crafts for the Non-crafty

Pressing fall leaves is easy and provides you with a pretty way to decorate your Thanksgiving table.

corn syrup is made by adding water and enzymes to corn starch

Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, and Your Body – Beating Sugar Addiction

What health consequences does high fructose corn syrup have for us?

Easy Pumpkin Cake: The Authentic Aunt JoAnn

I’m gonna go ahead and call this Easy Pumpkin Cake, although the original recipe says…