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  • Pumpkin Spice Cookies
  • Pumpkin cookie with Maple Rum Caramel
  • Boozy Bea, The Pumpkin, Rum & Maple Fruitcake
  • Plenty More Pumpkin

  • Frightfully delicious!
    Pumpkin Aplenty!
    October 25th 2007

    Greetings!

    Sweet, bright and endearingly mushy...

    Sounds like someone you want to cuddle with, huh?

    Ever tried spooning a Jack O'Lantern?

    Treat yourself with some of these pumpkin tricks.

    Happy Halloween!



    Pumpkin Spice Cookies
    With Lemon Ginger Glaze

    These cookies didn't look like much at first.

    Until I started offering them around.

    The spiced aroma wound around the neighbourhood like a stripper in a convertible. I had friends and neighbours knocking on my door.

    The plate was empty and I had a roomful of folks all telling childhood stories of Fall and Thanksgiving.

    I baked half of the dough as a giant cookie in a pie dish and covered it with maple, rum and caramel. That really sent the crowd over the edge.

    But the simplicity of the lemon and ginger glaze makes these unassuming little lumps quite magical.

    click here for the recipe

    Pumpkin cookie with Maple Rum Caramel
    Boozy-Sticky-Lovely

    This is the aforementioned giant-cookie-cum-tart.

    The combined wonders of rum, maple syrup and caramel harmonise into a blissful rhapsody.

    If you don't believe me, then speak to the empty pie dish!

    Store bought caramel (Bonne Maman or a good Dulce de Leche), stir in the rum and maple syrup.

    Soft, billowy clouds of whipped cream.

    Second helpings, please!

    click here for the recipe

    Boozy Bea, The Pumpkin, Rum & Maple Fruitcake

    One of my dearest friends is called Bea.

    This cake is not named after her.

    I concocted this fruitcake and, alarmed at precisely how much rum it was able to hold (and inspired by its absolutely titian colouring), I typed 'boozy' and 'redhead' into Google and it spat back a link to an article about a boozy rampage Princess Beatrice allegedly embarked upon.

    Boozy Bea was christened!

    My friend, Toni-Jean, has been after this recipe for over a year. Here you are, Madame!

    click here for the recipe

    Plenty More Pumpkin

    Pumpkin is its own food group.

    I adore it.

    The evidence is all over my website.

    Have a cruise around the recipe section. You'll see truffled pumpkin ravioli, gingerbread and butter pudding with pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin soup, pumpkin scones...the list goes on.

    Go high end this Halloween; rent your favourite Hitchcock film, pop the cork on a bottle of Veuve (hey, it's got a pumpkin coloured label!) and dig into some pumpkin!

    click here for the link to my Halloween menu
    Horror Stories
    This newsletter is being sent from a ubiquitous Marriott hotel room.

    It happens to be Huntsville, Alabama. But in the past 2 weeks it could have been Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, Boston or Miami.

    I'm on the road.

    Victim of 3 meals a day that no one cares about cooking.

    I long to be in my own kitchen, reaching into my own messy spice drawer...

    ...feeding loved ones...

    filling my home with aromas, flavours and full bellies.

    I hope that you enjoy these recipes. They are truly ones that I love cooking myself.

    Cheers, Mannix

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