My fair warning to you: These ain’t no wham-bam-pop-the-can cinnamon rolls.
Author: By Laura Hobbs
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- About By Laura Hobbs
- Born and raised in Fayetteville, Laura Hobbs is a self-proclaimed foodie and avid cook. She lives in Fayetteville's Washington-Willow Historic District with her ever-hungry husband, Eric, and their two dogs, Susie and Olive.

RECIPE: Thanksgiving Dessert: Pumpkin Maple Cheesecake Tart
When I’m tasked with bringing the dessert to a Thanksgiving feast, I put some serious love and elbow grease into my creation. I make sure that my dessert ends up in satisfied bellies, not stuffed into a napkin or secretly shoved into the garbage disposal.

RECIPE: Pumpkin Risotto
To celebrate the official arrival of fall, I wanted to make something quintessentially… well, fall. And to me, that means pumpkin. I stopped by our neighborhood farm stand and was overwhelmed at the assortment of unique heirloom varieties.

RECIPE: Fancy Focaccia
A little cheese went on, followed by my obsessive/compulsive placement of the zucchini and caramelized onions, followed by a little more cheese and some seasonings.

RECIPE: A Tune of Tuna
This makes a lot of food for two people; it served as my lunchtime leftovers until midweek, and seemed to get better and better by the day. Another idea is to divide the shells into two smaller dishes, and bake one while freezing the other.

RECIPE: Rockin’ Ramen
This recipe takes packaged ramen and amps up the flavor with additions like soy sauce, grated ginger and sesame oil. And instead of leaving the ramen naked, I like to add on plenty of fun and delicious toppings, like thinly sliced shiitakes, green onions, cilantro, and a blob of chili paste.

RECIPE: Movie Night Munchies
What starts as perfectly yummy stovetop popcorn gets amped up with the addition of truffle oil, parmesan cheese and a nice blend of zesty spices, and mellowed out with plenty of melted butter. It’s perfect for a cozy night in with a movie.

RECIPE: Swoon for Salad
The flavor combination can’t get much better – cheesy tortellini paired with crunchy green veggies and toasty pine nuts, creamy avocado and zesty sprouts, with a garlicky, lemony pop from the dressing.

RECIPE: Orange You Glad It’s Breakfast Time?
While the end result is worthy of a standing ovation, the steps to get there are mind-numbingly simple – dipping canned biscuits into melted butter, rolling them in sugar and orange zest, and piling them all into a Bundt pan.

RECIPE: Soup Series, Volume 4: Chunky Tomato Soup
We still have several months of winter weather ahead of us – let’s keep things warm and cozy with plenty of soup, shall we? Without further ado, the final recipe of the Soup Series: Chunky Tomato & Fennel.

RECIPE: Soup Series, Volume 3: Baked Potato Soup
It starts with simple baked potatoes and turns into a creamy, cheesy pot of soup with some straight-forward help from a little flour, milk and cheese. On a chilly night when you want something hearty and comforting, this is the soup for you.

RECIPE: Soup Series, Volume 2: Lotta Gremolata
On the first day, it’s a lovely brothy affair, with just the right consistency of a chunky soup. On the second day, the pasta has absorbed more of the broth, and what was once soup has morphed into a brothy pasta dish.

RECIPE: Soup Series, Volume 1: Cauliflower Power
For the inaugural recipe for the soup series, I propose a toast: To eating well, eating wisely, and eating with plenty of friends in 2012. Until next week, friends!

RECIPE: Glued to Gluten
Gluten-free baking is a different beast altogether, using ingredients that I don’t usually carry in my pantry. The texture and the flavor are surprisingly convincing, though, and the batter behaved just like a regular cupcake batter.

RECIPE: Scalloped Potatoes 101
This is a classic, quintessential, flawless recipe, and I beg of you to keep it just the way it is. One small warning: You will want to eat the entire dish, in one sitting, by yourself, with a big bottle of Malbec, and Bill Withers on the hi-fi.