From the new local cider we'r obsessed with, to a just-in-time-for-the-holidays kitchen gadget, here are four things our food editors love now.

4 things our food team is excited about this month

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<p>The Editorial Team of Chatelaine magazine.</p>

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<img src="http://www.chatelaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Triple-Tested.png" style="float:left;padding-right:4px;width:120px;"><strong>Welcome to The Chatelaine Kitchen.</strong>
 
What is triple-tested? Our Food Team creates, develops and tests every recipe at least three times (sometimes more!) to make sure it’s delicious and foolproof. We also make sure it’s easy to follow and shop for. Our professional testers weigh all the ingredients for nutritional analysis, verify how long it takes to prep and cook each recipe and check if it can be made ahead. We re-taste and adjust as needed. To confirm results in different kitchens, recipes are also tested at home — by us or by you. Sign up to be a home tester: testing@chatelaine.com

Recipes

Chatelaine Kitchen

Find out how this beta carotene-rich food can add nutrition to your life and a toasted pumpkin seed recipe.

Toasted pumpkin seed recipe and six  healthy reasons to eat pumpkin 

Pumpkins offer much more than just decoration ideas. Find out how this beta carotene-rich food can add nutrition to your life

Julie Daniluk

Health

Diet

For our last challenge, we asked you to take on pumpkin pie! Check to see if your photo made it into our Cooking Club gallery, at Chatelaine.com!

And the winner of our pumpkin pie challenge is...

<h3>Welcome to the Chatelaine Cooking Club!</h3>

How does it work? The first Friday of every month we send out the call for you to recreate a winning dish we’ve selected from the current issue of Chatelaine.
Then what? All you do is chop, stir, cook or bake it up, snap a photo of your culinary prowess, send it to us, and at the end of the month, check back at Chatelaine.com to see if you submitted the prize-winning photo, or have been featured in our Chatelaine Cooking Club gallery! 

Cooking Club

Delight in this decadent recipe for Pumpkin cupcakes with maple and bacon icing. Find more cupcake recipes at Chatelaine.com!

Pumpkin cupcakes with maple and bacon icing recipe

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Pumpkin carving idea: Using a drill to decorate your pumpkins will get you stunning results in less time

Pumpkin carving idea: How to carve a pumpkin with a drill

Simple pleasures: Using a drill to decorate your pumpkins will get you stunning results in less time

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4 things our food team is excited about this month

Six health reasons to eat more pumpkin and pumpkin seeds

And the winner of our pumpkin pie challenge is...

Pumpkin cupcakes with maple-bacon icing

Easy trick to create a pumpkin patch for Halloween