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Anyone who knows me knows I HATE the pumpkin spice trend.
It is everywhere! You can’t escape it, you can’t hide. I have seen it in coffee, coffee creamer, cream cheese, chips, tea, chocolate bars, air fresheners, personal care products (really, REALLY personal), whipped peanut butter, and in mass produced cookies of all kinds. It starts showing up sometime in September and doesn’t go away until mid-December. I think, as a trend, it is overdone – the shark has been jumped – and it is time to move on to the next big thing (which I will complain about, too, just for the record). So, you may wonder why my latest recipe is pumpkin? Because pumpkin spice is always appropriate in a pumpkin pie! Furthermore, pumpkin pie is always…
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