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Happy Moo Year!

As we say goodbye to the year of the rat and usher in the year of the ox, I hope you don’t mind if I reflect back on 2008 and then wax a bit philosophical about 2009. 20082008 was a big year for the Fuji family. I could say much, but to keep it simple […]

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Going Green with Sweet Sesame Seed Dressing

After all of the pumpkin that’s been flying around in my kitchen I figured it was time for a bit of green. So I went back to basics and made up a big bowl full of simple green salad with my favorite dressing. Growing up one of my favorite types of dressing was poppy seed […]

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Famous Pumpkin Scones–just what the doctor ordered.

For my last pumpkin recipe of Pumpkin Palooza, I had a totally different recipe in mind. Then at the beginning of the week I received a comment from a Melanie, a fellow blogger and friend (that I actually had the pleasure of meeting last May!), asking if I had ever tried pumpkin scones. She explained […]

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Mommy, where do pumpkins come from?

In this day and age we risk teaching our kids that milk magically appears in cartons, chickens come headless and plucked, and pumpkins come from a display in the supermarket. We are altogether too separated from the reality of how things get into our kitchens. I, for one, am all for a little education. Pumpkin […]

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Pumpkin Hummus

Thank you to everyone who entered my Pumpkin Palooza Giveaway! I really enjoyed reading about all of your favorite seasonal treats and traditions. Thanks to my trusty Random Integer Generator, we have a winner, Tamakikat! Tamakikat is writing to us from one of my favorite places on earth, Kyoto, Japan. As far as seasonal treats […]

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