Bring these comforting, relaxing, healthy recipes to the plates, bowls, and mugs of your home this year. The beginning of fall brings buzz and excitement around all things pumpkin. From the huggable lattes we eagerly await all year to the homemade roasted pumpkin seeds whipped up after carving a jack-o’-lantern on Halloween to the first (or third) slice of pie during the holidays, there’s a place for pumpkin in everyone’s heart. In her new cookbook, Purely Pumpkin , Allison Day, popular blogger and creator of the award-winning YummyBeet.com, brings the cozy warmth of pumpkin into our homes with a seasonal, whole foods recipe set and earthy food photography. With savory and sweet recipes for all meals of the day—including a mouthwatering pumpkin dessert chapter—it’s the cookbook your home shouldn’t be without during the fall and winter months. Homemade pumpkin spice latte variations along with wholesome meals ideal for every day and holidays are tucked into this plentiful pumpkin volume. Utilizing pumpkin flesh, pumpkin puree, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin spice, pumpkin seed oil, and heirloom pumpkins, there’s something in Purely Pumpkin for every craving, festivity, time constraint, and cooking level. As enjoyable to cook from as it is to flip through while curled up next to a crackling fire, there’s no better way to celebrate, share, and savor the pumpkin harvest this season. Allison Day is the creator of the award-winning food blog, Yummy Beet , cookbook author and photographer of Whole Bowls: Complete Gluten-Free and Vegetarian Meals to Power Your Day , and a nutritionist. Growing up in the countryside surrounded by fields of fresh produce inspired her love of seasonal, vegetable-focused cooking. She lives in Hamilton, Southern Ontario, Canada. Purely Pumpkin More Than 100 Wholesome Recipes to Share, Savor, and Warm Your Kitchen By Allison Day Skyhorse Publishing Copyright © 2016 Allison Day All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5107-0965-2 Contents INTRODUCTION, HEIRLOOM PUMPKIN GUIDE, NUTRITION FACTS, BEVERAGES, BREAKFAST AND BRUNCH, SOUPS, SNACKS, SALADS AND SIDES, MAINS, DESSERTS, EXTRAS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INDEX, CONVERSION CHARTS, CHAPTER 1 BEVERAGES As I confessed in the introduction, I wasn't exposed to fall and winter's most pervasive, somewhat divisive coffee shop pumpkin spice latté until my early twenties. In the name of research, I knew I had to taste one so I could attempt to make it doable at home— hold the chemical taste, unpronounceable ingredients, and astonishingly high price tag. I grabbed a friend, ordered the famous brew, and took my first sip. "Not bad," I thought. But I knew I could make it my own. I could take this loved (and loathed) drink and transform it into a homemade version with variants. And, I wanted to make the homemade versions drinkable to the last drop—something I wasn't able to do with the overly saccharine coffee shop version (stalling one-third of the way through the latté was a little embarrassing). Though still a sweeter treat, my takes contain far less sugar than the original, while continuing to taste perfectly familiar and nursery-cozy. The sweet-heat and slightly peppery notes of pumpkin spice blend beautifully with not just coffee, but tea and chocolate, too. Find one you can't stop sipping and repeat throughout the season. For the lattés, I'd like to give a special mention to Geoff Woodley of Detour Coffee (detourcoffee.com); he's a premium coffee roaster working to make sure that no one has to drink bad coffee again. They source some of the best—and my personal favorite—coffees and roast them fresh each week. Geoff assisted me with a little beverage research and generously provided the gorgeous drink styling and latté art on the Classic Pumpkin Spice Latté, Salted Caramel Pumpkin Spice Latté, Pumpkin Spice London Fog, and Matcha Pumpkin Spice Latté with Ginger and Orange Flower Water. Beyond pumpkin spice lattés, you'll find smoothies and an unbelievably healthy "pumpkin pie" smoothie bowl, pumpkin seed milk, and more. These pumpkin-spiked beverages are easy to warm up or cool down with. Pick your poison and start slurping. RECIPES PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ BASICS PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ BASE CLASSIC PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ PUMPKIN BUTTER PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ SALTED CARAMEL PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ PUMPKIN SPIKED LATTÉ WITH ORANGE PEEL PUMPKIN SPICE HOT CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN SPICE LONDON FOG MATCHA PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ WITH GINGER AND ORANGE FLOWER WATER GINGERBREAD PUMPKIN AND HAZELNUT SHAKE PUMPKIN PIE SMOOTHIE BOWL PUMPKIN PIE GREEN PROTEIN SMOOTHIE VEGAN PUMPKIN EGGNOG HONEYED PUMPKIN SPICE MASALA CHAI PUMPKIN SEED "NUT" MILK PUMPKIN SPICE LATTÉ BASICS You can create many kinds of coffee shop-style lattés at home, and a high-end espresso machine with a glimmering milk-frothing wand is just one of them. (I wish I could say I have one of these; alas, I do not.) I've outlined a number of ways to get your caffein