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Thanksgiving: Maple Pumpkin Tart

Maple Pumpkin Tart

Ingredients:

For The Crust:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for work surface
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
  • 14 tablespoons (1 3/4 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 2 tablespoons ice water

Mint Love Social Club

 Natalie Xanthakis is only a newlywed and already the wife of all wives, planning the picture perfect dinner party and creating her own tasty recipes. She started her must read blog Mint Love Social Club in February of 2011 as a creative outlet to showcase some of her favorite home decor, recipes, DIY projects and party planning tips. One of the first regular posts she started was a cocktail post  every Friday with a new recipe each week for her readers. That weekly post grew out of the tradition that her and her  husband didn’t have any plans on a Friday night, they would head to the grocery store and spend the night in trying out different cocktail recipes.  See her cocktail concoction below created just for THE WIFE. – Taryn Cox for THE WIFE

THE WIFE: His and Her Cocktails

Hi there, I’m Natalie from Mint Love Social Club here to give you all a great his and hers cocktail pair for Fall!  It just so happens that Miss Taryn and I go way back as our mothers have been close friends for many years so I was delighted when she asked me to do a little cocktail guest blog!

Today I created a great pairing for a cozy Autumn night in using rosemary simple syrup to give it an herbal and seasonal flavor!  The cocktail for her features gin and grapefruit so its lighter and sweet while the cocktail for him is much stronger with only Rittenhouse Rye whiskey and some Peychaud bitters to accompany a dash of the simple syrup. I hope you enjoy them! Click “Contiune Reading” for the recipe and directions. –Natalie Xanthakis for THE WIFE

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Kitchen Gadget: Karoto

 Karoto (carrot in ancient Greek) is an oversize sharpener (think a pencil sharpener 5x larger) that can peel, sharpen and curl ribbons of carrots, zucchini, cucumbers and other similar shaped vegetables.

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Halloween: Crisp Candy Corn Treats

Two Halloween must-haves, candy corn and cereal treats — make one festive sweet. The trick? Spike the orange and yellow layers with citrus zest to add bright, unexpected flavor.

Ingredients:

  • Cooking spray
  • 9 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
  • 12 cups miniature marshmallows, divided
  • 3/4 teaspoon fine salt, divided
  • 9 cups crisp puffed-rice cereal, divided
  • 1 tablespoon grated orange zest
  • Yellow and red food coloring
  • 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
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