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Food

This is our category dedicated to eating, cooking, baking, and feeding.

Baked oatmeal: the ultimate fall/winter breakfast for the week

Baked oatmeal is one of the many dishes I had never heard of before moving to South Central Pennsylvania. It’s oatmeal made casserole-style, so that it’s gooey on the inside and crunchy like granola on top. It’s an awesome and versatile fall or winter breakfast dish, and since it’s casserole-style, you can eat it all week!

Would you like a veggie Cthulhu in a blanket? Yes, please

I was recently inspired by this photo that Portland-based designer, developer, and writer Neven Mrgan tweeted last week — why make pigs in a blanket when you can make CTHULHUS in a blanket instead?! That’s right!

Make pumpkin cake from your carved pumpkin flesh

After spending several hours carving those wonderful Halloween pumpkins I was left with a ton of pumpkin flesh. Being a little green I just couldn’t bear to throw it all away. So I grabbed my trusty carrot cake recipe, substituted pumpkins for carrots, added a few juicy extra bits, and fed the flesh of a thousand pumpkins to my nearest and dearest!

This pumpkin cookie dip is vegan, gluten-free, and Megan-simple

Cookies, jealous of the ascendancy of the cupcake, have found a way to up their fabulosity: the cookie dip. This cookie dip is vegan, gluten-free, Megan-simple, and — by far most important — flavored like pumpkin pie. So: cookies dipped in pie.

What do you know about making awesome Kombucha?

I feel like I’ve graduated — I read Offbeat Bride every day until my recent wedding and now to fill that hole I’m reading Offbeat Home.

Recently I’ve been thinking about making my own kombucha in my house. I’m wondering what advice you might have about how to go about doing that, what the best ingredients are, what considerations and items I would need?

How to make gothtastic gingerbread bats with SERIOUS bite

It’s cooling down, and you know what that means? It’s time for Our Lady Of The Manners’ gingerbread bats! Some of you may remember the Offbeat Empire’s favorite goth etiquette columnist, Jillian Venters, aka Our Lady Of The Manners. Some of you may remember her as the author of Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them, or as the ultimate giver of gothic wedding advice on Offbeat Bride. What you may not know, however, is that Our Lady Of The Manners also has a mean gingerbread bat recipe that has some SERIOUS bite…

Onions are your friends: 11 tips for new cooks

I LOVED the fabulous cooking challenge series earlier this year! So I took the challenge to submit my own attempt at staying out of a restaurant and away from premade meals for a week while keeping it simple! And while doing so, I tried to pay attention to what things make cooking easy and fast. I’m happy to report I’ve been back in the kitchen a lot more ever since. Here are my tips for new cooks…

Sneaky Vanilla Pudding for School Lunches/Snacks

Kids — and adults — have been back in school for a couple of weeks now and you may be running out of ideas for healthy snacks and lunches. I think this recipe is a great way to sneak avocado and banana into the diet of any willful child or picky adult.