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Roasting Peppers Step-By-Step on Nov 6, 2009 in Basics Anaheim peppers autumn bell peppers Fall green bell peppers Italian sweet peppers red bell peppers roasting peppers sweet pimiento peppers When Columbus first set foot on the Caribbean island that is now shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, he was hoping to find black pepper, the world’s most costly spice. Instead he found the genus Capsicum which the native inhabitants called...

Roasted Fall Vegetable Salad with Warm Goat Cheese & Honey Mustard Vinaigrette on Nov 1, 2009 in Autumn Leaves Salads butternut squash chevre Fall goat cheese Northwest Potatoes red bell peppers roasted vegetables salad We are in love with full-meal salads in the OtherWorldly Kitchen, and I scramble every week to come up with a couple of new and memorable offerings. However, it’s challenging to make a salad an entire meal if seafood, poultry, or meat is not includ...

Green Chile Chowder with Yellow Finn Potatoes & Italian Kale on Oct 26, 2009 in Autumn Leaves chowder Fall Italian kale poblano peppers Soup We settled into our Portland city digs for a few weeks, and one of the first things we did was hike over to the Portland Farmers Market. To tell you that the market was glorious yesterday morning is to be guilty of careless understatement. It was ove...

Pumpkin, Spice & Everything Nice Tea Bread on Oct 25, 2009 in Autumn Leaves Desserts orange essence pumpkin sweets tea bread walnuts When October hits the Pacific Northwest and the Cascade foothills begin to turn iridescent shades of crimson, honey, and gold, I develop an intense craving for anything and everything pumpkin. This year, I’ve already created a new pumpkin bisque an...

Pumpkin Spice Hot White Chocolate on Oct 19, 2009 in Autumn Leaves Drinks autumn Fall pumpkin white chocolate There must be a hundred posts on the web on the topic of Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Latte. Amazing! Would you believe I have NEVER had a Pumpkin Spice Latte? I’m not quite sure how that happened. However, in perusing all of the copycat recipes, it...

Quintessential Mac & Cheese Roundup 2009 on Oct 17, 2009 in Dining Boston mac and cheese macaroni and cheese Northwest Northwest restaurants Scottsdale Seattle. Portland When I posted our first Quintessential Mac & Cheese Roundup in 2008, I was certain we would soon run out of restaurants that served Mac & Cheese, and then the idea of a yearly roundup would be a thing of the past. Well, either I was way wro...

Caramelized Pear Salad with Gorgonzola, Candied Spiced Walnuts & Spicy Orange Vinaigrette on Oct 11, 2009 in Autumn Leaves Recipes Salads autumn candied walnuts caramelization chile peppers Fall Northwest oranges pears salad Pears have a flavor affinity with creamy blue cheeses, such as Cambozola, Gorgonzola, Stilton, and Roquefort, as well as with balsamic vinegar, red wine, oranges, toasted walnuts, and the caramelization technique. I’m exploring these marvelous affi...