Category: Desserts
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Peanut Butter Sandwich Day
As a younger person, I never grasped the concept of comfort food. For me, food fell into only two categories – things I liked and things I didn’t. And the categorization was complicated – one might assume that peanut butter was in one category or another, but it wasn’t. A piece of bread, spread thick…
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National Dessert Day
Words, as anyone who has said bumfuzzle aloud can tell you, are funny. How they came to be and where they came from can be amusing when not just strange. Consider dessert – as, of course, we hope you often do- that word comes from a French word, dessevir, meaning to remove what has been…
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Pumpkin Spice Day
Perhaps it’s best if you’re sitting. The shock may be too much for you – but fear not, there is a warm and fuzzy place that we can help you find, one that will make it all better, so stay with us… Perhaps it will come as no surprise to you that there is an…
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National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
The oddity of food holidays, who decides what food gets a special designation and the odd times that those days appear in the calendar of celebrated comestibles is a common and whimsical lament in our blog. But this particular day, Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, is no mystery to us – among these fanciful food fetes,…
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National Sugar Cookie Day
If the sugar cookie could talk, I suspect it would express some bashful surprise at the fact that we honor, even celebrate, it. The often pale and unadorned sweet might even blush to know that we toast its very existence today on National Sugar Cookie Day. The Sugar Cookie, at least as we most often…
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Trifecta of Food Holidays
3 is a magical number. In Roman and Chinese systems, it’s one of the few numbers that’s written with as many strokes as the number represents. It’s a significant number to Christians, Hindus, Pagans, and Pythagoras, too. In less consecrated ways, those who fancy a flutter on the gee-gees on Derby Day or anytime Keeneland…
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Strawberry Pie
Our fresh strawberry pie was featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel! To celebrate the official kick-off of strawberry season in East Tennessee, our very own Mahasti Vafaie shares the full recipe and explains what farmer’s markets mean to her. INGREDIENTS ½ cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup frozen cranberry juice, thawed ¾ cup water…
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Just Dew It with a side of Pecans
The approach of Big Ears, in addition to a fantastic slate of music, gives us pause to appreciate things homegrown. It also reminds us of how nice it is to be in Knoxville, and how lucky we are to have witnessed and participated in all the work that has gone into making our city a…
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Valentines Day at Tomato Head
For some of us, Valentine’s Day elicits a cynical response. It’s a holiday of strange expectations, most of which fail – often miserably. In the spirit of those failures, I admitted to a friend that I had once received an electric can opener as a Valentine. She laughed and replied that she had once gotten…
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Happy National Chocolate Cake Day!
It doesn’t seem that long ago that chocolate always meant milk chocolate, and, more often than not, that meant Hershey’s. Even now when I check out through certain grocery store lines and see the collection of candy bars I can find myself singing an old Hershey’s commercial under my breath: “Hershey’s is the great American,…