Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Pumpkin Pie That’ll Actually Make You Love Pumpkin Pie

    Pumpkin Pie That’ll Actually Make You Love Pumpkin Pie

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    If there were a universal “meh” list, pumpkin pie would probably be at the very top. How many people are passionate about that odd combination of orange gunk, eggs, pumpkin pie spices (perhaps the most famous thing about it), in a pale, pallid crust? Not many! And yet, year after year, we make pumpkin pie…

  • Marbled Pumpkin Bread

    Marbled Pumpkin Bread

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    There’s are certain cheats that are universally acknowledged as acceptable by food people and one of them is that it’s totally fine to use canned pumpkin in place of fresh pumpkin in baking recipes. I realize a lot of you are rolling your eyes at that: “Who in their right mind would ever trouble to…

  • Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

    Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

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    Now let’s get to the serious business at hand: Thanksgiving dessert. Oh, I know what you’re going to tell me, that this is a pie holiday and that offering up a cake at Thanksgiving is like offering up a latke at Christmas. Well you’re speaking to a latke person at Christmas, so of course I’m…

  • Easy Pumpkin Bread

    Easy Pumpkin Bread

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    For as long as I’ve been cooking, I’ve been making the pumpkin bread you see in the above photo. (Proof: see this old post from 2004.) It’s one of the easiest recipes I know–dump a bunch of stuff into a bowl, stir it together, and bake it–and the rewards are rich: the scent of cinnamon…