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Baked apples! We'll be making Dorie Greenspan's recipe (recently on Serious Eats) for the in-law's 38th wedding anniversary tonight. A warm homey dessert will go well with the snowy weather here!

I just pulled out a recipe for pumpkin pie bread pudding with bourbon toffee sauce. I'm already considering making that for christmas dinner.

Alas, I just start craving whatever the last thing you post is... the biscuits are providing some major come-hither action...

After the carby fat fest that was Thanksgiving and leftovers, all I want are vegetables. Salads, steamed veggies, veggie soup, just want to keep it light.

Last night I made the chicken posole posted at Serious Eats a few weeks ago - it was fantastic, and just what I wanted. Chicken soup with a little twist. Highly recommend it - the link is here: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/11/sunday-night-soups-small-c-chunky-posole-recipe.html

Okay, you've started something. I WANT THESE BISCUITS!!

The link is no longer there. Can anyone post the recipe?? PLEEEEEEAASSEE????!

Fixed the link - try again.

Thanks Faith!! To YOU, I dedicate this next 10lbs!

Perhaps it's the hunter-gatherer in me, but I'm seriously craving braised meats. The question is, can I pull one off on a weeknight?

I'm in a chili mood.

You can definitely pull off a braise on a weeknight. Embrace the crockpot! Set it in the morning and it will be ready by the time you get home.

Or, embrace the French way of shaving off time with a pressure cooker.

Heavy soups, like French onion, butternut squash, and smoky navy bean. These soups must be accompanied by biscuits, muffins, foccacia, garlic bread, sourdough toasts, and the breads must be accompanied by plenty of really good butter.

Yes, you CAN gain 10 pounds eating soup!

brunswick stew and cornbread!

Well faithie, you guys look like you had a nice dinner.

Um, I have an open thread question but there's none up right now.

I want to bring cupcakes (or something similar) to my son's preschool for his birthday next week. His classmates include kids suffering from the (now) normal assortment of allergies - nuts, dairy, eggs, wheat. I don't want to leave those kids out. I also want something quick - really quick - and of course yummy. Ideas???

Mjoe -- Would you believe, there's a recipe for vegan, gluten-free cupcakes? (I didn't, until I saw it.) That takes care of all the allergies except possibly nuts, if almond milk counts against a nut allergy (but if the allergy is peanuts, which aren't related to almonds at all, maybe it's okay). However, if no one is allergic to soy, you can always substitute soy milk.

mjoe,

being in charge of taking food to a kid's classroom has to be more complicated than being a chef!

in my opinion, stress on opinion, just avoid nuts or anything that could have been processed with nuts, that's the big one.

If mom's don't want their kids eating other stuff, so be it. Don't mess with a mom on a mission.

Just go for a simple chocolate cupcake, the kids will love you for it.

mjoe, check the Hershey's site. I have a recipe (not with me, sorry) that I got off a can of their unsweetened cocoa powder. It's basically flour, sugar, cocoa, vanilla, water, oil, salt, and for leavening, baking soda and a Tbsp of white vinegar. They're great, and do well in mini size. Doesn't help on the wheat allergy, but I imagine you can substitute some other kind of grain flour? I don't frost them, I just dust with confectioners sugar.

They are FAST, too.