What’s Been Cooking: October 2025
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Hi friends! It’s been another whirlwind of a month, especially as the days are getting shorter and we’re nearing the chaos of the holidays. Here’s what we’ve been up to lately:
👩🏻🍳👨🏻🍳 A Peek Into Our Kitchen
It’s been a busy month of developing new recipes and remaking some of our old favorites! This is the time of year we love to break out our most cozy, comforting recipes, like our spicy Szechuan dumpling soup and buffalo gnocchi. There’s really no better way to end the day than with a warm, spicy, and easy dinner.
Some new recipes in the works include a sun dried tomato pesto pasta, chickpea potato curry (coming this Friday!), and a small batch apple crisp. We’re also just beginning to work on two new sweets for the holiday season, including a new flavor of fudge and cinnamon roll inspired cookies!
🏈 Game Day Snacks Galore
Since this summer, we’ve been trying to post more videos on social media. It’s honestly been a big challenge, since it takes much longer to make a recipe when you have to set up lighting and film every step! But practice makes perfect, and it’s getting easier every time.
Since we know the months ahead are going to feel so busy with the holidays coming up, we took an entire Sunday last week to film 7 of our game day appetizers in one go. It literally took all day, but it feels so good to have so much footage ready to go now!
And we got to enjoy a ridiculous dinner that night of all the things we made, plus snack on the leftovers all week long…
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🤍 One Year Wedding Anniversary
We celebrated our first wedding anniversary this month with a weekend trip to Western MA, which is where we got married! It was so fun to go back to the area where we celebrated last year and get to relive all the memories.
While we were in town, we made sure to stop at all our favorite places for some delicious food and drinks:
- Tree House Brewing – This is up there with our favorite breweries! They have the best pizza, tons of great beers, and a giant outdoor patio and yard with adirondack chairs and picnic tables. We always find a reason to stop here if we’re in town or passing through.
- Tunnel Bar – Built into an old train tunnel, this bar is attached to (and owned by) the restaurant where we had our welcome drinks event last year. It was so busy last time we tried to stop in that we didn’t stay to order a drink, but this year we got in and enjoyed a cocktail in their unique setting.
- Mulino’s Northampton – Our favorite Italian restaurant in the area! We ate here when we visited our wedding venue for the first time, every time we were in town for planning meetings, and for our rehearsal dinner. Our favorites are the bruschetta, eggplant parm, penne alla vodka, and a dessert called “the limon,” a limoncello flavored tiramisu.
We also celebrated that weekend with a homemade tapas night (we made patatas bravas, Spanish baked goat cheese in tomato sauce, and chorizo), a visit to the farm where we got married (where we picked up an apple cider slushie and some apple cider donuts!), and a dinner out at Frankie’s, a local farm to table restaurant, when we got home to Vermont.
Did we eat and drink too much? Absolutely. But like we always say, special occasions are meant to be celebrated with good food, so we did just that.
🍂 Fall Adventures
Since we were on our honeymoon last October, we soaked up every second of fall in Vermont this year! From hiking Mt. Philo to enjoy scenic views of the foliage to visiting apple orchards and our local corn maze and pumpkin patch, we checked almost everything off our bucket list this month.
A few notable treats we enjoyed along the way included:
- The famous “Supreemee Dreamee” from Yates Family Orchard – an apple cider creemee with apple pie filling, an apple cider donut, and caramel drizzle (so decadent, so good!)
- Onion dip with chili crisp and crispy shallots from Foam Brewers, which I’m now daydreaming about recreating at home because I couldn’t get enough of it
- Our favorite pork dumplings from Hong’s (fun fact, Guy Fieri visited her shop on triple D!)
🌱 Goodbye To Our Garden
We had our first frost earlier this month, so gardening season is officially over. This year we decided to log our harvest, and it was so fun to see how much food we grew ourselves!
- A whopping 124.4 ounces of cherry tomatoes
- 18 Anaheim peppers, 13 Carmen peppers, 13 (tiny) jalapenos, and 10 poblanos
- 6 large zucchini
- 8 sprigs of rosemary, 10-ish sprigs of basil, 4 sprigs of lavender, and 24 sprigs of pineapple sage
- 14 sprigs of mint, plus 3 small bundles of flowers after it bolted
We mostly made dinners with the tomatoes, peppers, and zucchini (like chicken tinga tostadas, roasted vegetable risotto, zucchini and tomato pasta, pizza, and burrito bowls). But a ton of tomatoes also went to bruschetta, including both fresh and baked versions!
Rosemary was our go-to for homemade focaccia, and we used plenty of mint and basil for both traditional and gin basil mojitos. We also made a simple syrup with some of the lavender that has been tasting great with gin.
We managed to transplant our lavender, mint, rosemary, and pineapple sage to see if they could survive the winter indoors. So far pineapple sage didn’t make it and mint is looking pretty rough (as expected), but the lavender and rosemary are going strong! Hopefully they’ll stay healthy and we can continue cooking with these herbs throughout the year.
🎃 Halloween Fun
We love Halloween! To celebrate, we carved pumpkins and watched a few lightly spooky movies (not fans of horror over here), including Hocus Pocus 2 and We Have a Ghost.
Over the weekend, we visited friends in NYC and went to a Halloween party. We dressed up in a group costume as the characters from Holes – jumpsuits, shovels, water jugs, dirt makeup, and all. The night was a blast, even if we didn’t win the costume contest!
Do you like Halloween? If you celebrated, what did you dress up as?
Thanks for reading this month’s recap! We hope your October was full of fun and good food. Here’s to a new month ahead and the upcoming holiday season!
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