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In the Kitchen

Slow Cooker Chicken and Lentil Stew with Moringa 🌿
Chicken thighs, green lentils and vegetables, seared and slow cooked in one pot, finished with fresh moringa. The comfort bowl that gets dinner on the table early for a change.
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Seminole Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Gingersnaps 🍮
The sweet finale of the Seminole pumpkin run. Brioche soaked in pumpkin custard, gingersnaps broken through the middle, a buttery gingersnap topping,...

How to Make Seminole Pumpkin Bread 🍞
Moist, full of pumpkin and warm spices, finished with a maple vanilla glaze and chopped pecans. Made with real Seminole pumpkin I...

How to Make Seminole Pumpkin Soup Joumou 🎃
Soup joumou is the Haitian pumpkin soup we make on New Year's to celebrate independence. Traditionally it's calabaza. I had a pile...