A Recipe: Toasted Pumpkin Seeds with Chili and Lime

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Toasting pumpkin seeds, that hallmark of Halloween, are a ritual in our home just as it is in many American homes.  We head to the pumpkin patch, a pitiful display of twenty or thirty pumpkins organized with military precision into uniform rows, but it’s all for charity – a way to spend a little extra [...]

Tips for a Better, Healthier Halloween

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It’s the time of year health-minded parents across the nation dread: Halloween. While I love and cherish celebrating holidays and the changing of the seasons, I loathe the trappings of Halloween -  and Christmas, too, for that matter. What once we honored with care, storytelling and feasts from a local harvest we now celebrate with [...]