Catoctin Cookin'

Here is an alternative to the pumpkin pie for your Thanksgiving dinner. This easy pumpkin mousse is cool, creamy, and ready in minutes. Cream cheese, pudding mix, whipped topping, and canned pumpkin are layered with gingersnap crumbles for a fast fall dessert. A pumpkin mousse parfait, warmly spiced and studded with crunchy gingersnap bits, comes…

Fall for Flavor  As we enter the fall season, which for us in Catoctin Mountain country means a few more hot days peppered with a little rain and some tolerably cooler weather, we welcome the usual flavors of fall. But before we settle for “Pumpkin Spiced” lasagna, let’s consider some of the other flavors that…