Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

This week, the kitchn celebrates Halloween this year with homemade candy corn with candy dough.

Also in the kitchn, roasting stuffed pumpkins, dyeing pasta, oreo bat cookies, and panna cotta puddings.

• Autumn Supper: Savory Stuffed Pumpkin: Have a hallow pumpkin that is going to waste… add roasted garlic, bread, spices and cream… Yum!

• Colorful Cooking: How To Make Colored Pasta: All you need is vegetable puree to add some color to your pasta.

• Halloween Recipe: Thomas Keller Oreo Bat Cookies: Try these crunchy chocolate cookies, with a white chocolate ganache sandwiched in between them.

• Autumn Cooking: Savory Kabocha Squash Panna Cotta: Savory Panna Cotta Puddings are delish!

Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

This week, the kitchn brings us a heaping bowl of tender meatballs in tomato sauce… perfect for a cold day.

Also in the kitchn, a cookbook devoted to grits, no-stir polenta, chewy chocolate (low-fat) cookies, and yummy butternut squash pasties.

• Glorious Grits by Susan McEwen McIntosh: A whole cookbook, including more than 100 recipes in all, simply devoted to the wonderfulness of grits.

• Marcella Hazan’s No-Stir Polenta: That’s right, it can be done without stiring, “Polenta is like risotto, but…”

• The Best Chocolate Chewy Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too):  These cookies look to die for, plus there low-fat, gotta try.

• Recipe: Butternut Squash, Sage, and Parmesan Pasties:  These Pasties are a vegetarian’s dream snack to munch on.

(Image: From Spoon Sisters)

• What Is Nutella?:  This incredible delectable chocolate hazelnut spread…. Yumm!!!

• Quick Lemonade Cocktail Recipes: Turn your leftover lemonade into a fantastic cocktail.

• What Food Is Your Comfort Food?: Hmmmm, nothing better than some comfort food.

• Produce Spotlight: Figs:  A great end of summer fruit.

• New Recipe Bookmarks For Cookbooks: Need to pinpoint a recipe in your cookbook use these nifty bookmarks.

(Image: Exile in suburbia/Flickr)

Is there a specific food you just go to for comfort?

You know, a food that even on your toughest days, like being stuck at work and just wanting to go home, bad weather, feeling under the weather, or last fighting with your bestest friend.

The kind of food that the smell alone puts a smile on your face.

Do you run to a food for comfort?

Some may feel that a big bowl of chicken soup brings them comfort, or maybe a grilled cheese sandwich does it for them.

For me  there’s TWO, a great big bowl of Over-the-Rainbow Macaroni and Cheese.   Yummmmmm-OOOOOOOOOO!

Second is my all time favorite, ice cream!  Oh, I’m such a sucker for some ice cream.

(Speaking of which let me go get some right now while I’m thinking about it …. ssshhhhh!)

I find as I get older no matter what the age is sometimes a little comfort is always needed.

Tell me…. what’s yours?

Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

The week, the kitchn shows us how to recreate the beloved pre-made and pre-packaged granola bars.

Also in the kitchn, using cheese rinds, warm up the table with votive candles, ten-food related podcasts, and smoked lemon bars.

• How Can I Use Cheese Rinds?: They can be added to any stews or soups for delicious tastes.

• Warm Up The Table: 8 Beautiful Votive Candles: Decorate your table with inexpensive ways for lighting.

• Making Bread, Raiding The Pantry & Disguising Vegetables: Ten food related podcasts that you should download and listen to.

• Recipe: Smoked Lemon Bars: Try a different approach to lemon bars, try smoking your lemons first.

Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

This week, the kitchn teaches how to make a super quick summer dessert… Peach and Biscuit Crostata.

Also in the kitchn, homemade falafel and whether they can be freezed, chip clips from Capco, microwaved lime cheesecake, secret garden treat in a jar.

• Can I Freeze Homemade Falafel?: Is it best to freeze cooked or uncooked, is the question?

• Improving On The Chip Clip: Bag Caps From Capco: Can these pricey gadgets really keep our bags closed tightly.

• Recipe Review: 2 Minute (Microwaved) Lime Cheesecake: Can it really be that simple… Possibly!

• Guess What Garden Treat Is In The Jar!: Can you guess what’s inside the jar?

Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

This week, the kitchn shows us the wide ranges of ice creams that mix-in yummy chocolate bits.

Also in the kitchn, how to eat spicy foods, a dessert version of balsamic vinegar, differences in peppercorns, and a new version of chocolate mousse.

• Can’t Take The Heat? How To Eat Spicy Foods:  Though I may not have this problem I know that some of my readers do, hope this helps!

• Ingredient Spotlight: Saba: This is found in the  balsamic vinegar family, it’s sweet and syrupy perfect to drizzle over fruits and cheeses.

• What’s The Deal With Green, Black, White, and Pink Peppercorns?:  Do you know all of the differences between all of these peppercorns?

• Recipe: Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil and Sea Salt:  This is a perfect recipe for chocolate mousse if expecting.

• Quick and Easy Recipe for a lazy kid-friendly morning, Peanut butter and Chocolate Chip Pancakes.

• Sugar shortage in america can be the new dilemma.

• What to do with a basket of yummy lemons.

• Stores are reintroducing larger packages for our favorite foods again. 

• There are so many different ways to write a shopping list, what’s yours?

According to Wall Street Journals report this past thursday, “Several giant food producers sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warning that the U.S. might “virtually run out of sugar” of the country didn’t reduce import restrictions on the increasingly expensive commodity.”

Big time firms, such as Kraft Foods Inc., General Mills Inc., Hershey Co. and Mars Inc. have implied that if they weren’t able to receive supply markets like Brazil, they would run out of sugar to make our favorite candy bars, cookies, cereal and other products.

In order to keep prices within reason for domestic sugar farmers, the government only allows unlimited sugar imports from the Mexican market without the paying of tariffs. The price of raw sugar has increased to its highest level since 1981.

 The US Department of Agriculture said earlier this week that domestic supplies were now increasing and this was being backed up by the sugar industry group American Sugar Alliance (ASA).  ”There is absolutely no shortage of sugar here,” said Jack Roney, director of economic and policy analysis at the ASA. 

What do you think? Do you believe that America can run out of sugar?

Image: Alicia Nijdam/Flickr

Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

This week, the kitchn celebrates the soon to come ending of summer with wounderful kid-friendly super thin brownie ice cream sandwiches.

Also in the kitchn, what eggs to use when making meringue, cactus and corn salad, bourbon infused popsicles, and tangy huckleberries.

• Food Science: The Best Eggs for Meringue and Why: It really does matter what temperature your eggs are when making meringue.

• Recipe: Grilled Cactus and Corn Salad: Smoky, zesty, and sweet is what this salad brings to your taste buds.

• Bellini, Vodka, and Chocolate-Bourbon Popsicles: Adding liquor to popsicles will give adults that extra sweet kick.

• Ingredient Spotlight: Huckleberries: Small little sweet and tart berries that can be found in red or black.