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Maple Buttered Sweet Potato Wedges

These wedge-cut sweet potatoes are seasoned with a touch of chili powder, cinnamon, fresh thyme, and a generous drip good maple syrup, and then they get caramelized as they roast in the oven, for a wonderfully sweet and savory side for your Thanksgiving table.

Yesterday I was all about the pie, pie, pie, pie, pie. Today I’m all about the sides, sides, sides, sides, sides. Let’s go T-swift style and Shake! It! Up! Shake! It! Up!

You can find sweet potatoes on pretty much every Thanksgiving table. Except for ours. Growing up we never had sweet potatoes for turkey day. Or yams for that matter. I guess nobody was much of a fan of cooked marshmallows on top of canned orange jewels.

This time around, I’ve turned to the wedge—the sweet potato wedge. Gone is the mush factor found in canned varieties. Instead one of my favorite fall seasonal veggies is partnered with Real® butter, sweet maple syrup and a pinch or two of cinnamon and another smidge of cayenne. Then off on a trip to the hot oven they go.

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Maple Apples, Blue Cheese and Bacon Pizza

This pizza started out as sushi. Well, sort of.

After getting my roots done this week (just in the nick of time) I hit the bookstore to try and find the latest issue of my favorite foodie inspiration Donna Hay magazine (to no avail) and ended up soaking in a few other publications (rags) instead. Mila and Ashton had their baby! Get ripped abs in 10 easy steps! Theresa and Joe go to jail! Celebrity beach bodies gone wrong! Who wore it best? For sure, she did!

Ugh, why did I wander away from the food magazines?

Afterward, I walked over to Whole Foods to cure my craving for lunch-on-the-go-sushi. Instead, I left with a new craving and all of the makings for this pizza.

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Friday Faves and Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes

For so many, this week cannot get over soon enough.

The focus has certainly been on the weather fiasco that has swept away homes and memories along the upper East Coast. With so many people who will be digging out from under Sandy’s destruction for some time ahead, it’s hard for those of us distanced from the front line to know exactly how to help. But there is a way to help, by simply going online and donating to relief efforts. And don’t forget about the animals, they’re in need too.continue to the recipe… about Friday Faves and Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes

Top 5 Doughnut Recipes for National Doughnut Day

It’s a Fry-day. It’s a holey-day. Hellz yeah, it’s National Doughnut Day!

photo > Sian Kennedy via Bon Appétit

Dunkers and sinkers, no matter what you call them or where you live, we all love them .

Far from the beyond-overexposed Krispy Kreme franchises (they lost all appeal when I found them “fresh baked” in my local grocery store) we’ve rounded up our top 5 make-at-home ringer recipes.

photo > Butterfly Food

If the photos aren’t enough to compel you to try these light and airy hole-challenged treasures, their unusual source just might. Straight from a…mystery novel—love unusual inspirations—Easy Raised Donuts from Ash’s food blog Butterfly Foodie are beyond tempting with with strawberry glaze, sprinkles or toasted coconut.

photo > Lara Ferroni

What better expert to feature on this holey-est of days than from the doyenne of doughnuts herself, Lara Ferroni, author of Doughnuts: Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home. Her Baked Chocolate Cake Doughnuts are tender, chocolatey and baked—saving calories from frying so you can add just a couple more to your plate.

photo > Tartlette

Healthy doughnuts? Er, well, maybe! Offseting the effects of the Fry Baby and solving Helene’s banana-overload conundrum, Tartlette‘s Banana Doughnuts with Dried Banana “Streusel”deliver a healthy dose of potassium rich bananas—mixed right into the batter—and when glazed and decadently topped with another dose of dried bananas, deliver a delicious contrast in textures.

photo > Sips and Spoonfuls

Doughnuts. And Dubai? Sukaina’s recipe for Nutella Doughnuts at Sips & Spoonfuls is proof enough that doughnuts hold international appeal, especially when combined with flavor of the month Nutella. Create her version with the hole or stuffed with a hazelly-Nutella center.

photo > Cherry Tea Cakes

And finally, riding the bacon wave that is almost ridden out, Jana from Cherry Tea Cakes takes a homemade riff on the popular donut I first saw at this downtown L.A. diner. Maple Bacon Donuts are the sort of flavor combo not found often enough : savory, sweet, salty—toppings that when combined with the gooeyness of the moist doughnut cake make angels sing. Dig in, pour a big glass of milk and remember to leave room for the pound of bacon topping.

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Maple Buttered Sweet Potato Wedges

Maple Apples, Blue Cheese and Bacon Pizza

Friday Faves and Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes

Top 5 Doughnut Recipes for National Doughnut Day

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