Vegan five-course set menu full of autumn flavours at Arcane in Central is a feast for the taste buds | Green Pumpkin Seeds Kernel

Denver You might say Melissa Megliola has Etsy, YouTube, and Google to thank for her thriving cookie business, Sweet Treats by Melissa, which she runs from her south Denver home. “I was trying to figure out a way to market the Italian cookies I learned to make from my mom and grandma, so I went online,” Megliola says. “When I saw all the custom-decorated sugar cookies out there, I decided to teach myself to make them.” With the help of video tutorials and more than a spoonful of natural talent, Megliola now creates beautifully designed cookies that actually taste as good as they look. She also sells her beloved Italian treats (lemon balls, butter cookies, and Neapolitans, to name just a few) to anyone in Colorado with a sweet tooth and the patience to wait three weeks for pickup.How To Buy: See more of Megliola’s gorgeous treats, request a quote ($14 per pound for Italian cookies; $39 and up per dozen for custom-decorated cookies), and place orders through her website.

Snacking on roasted watermelon seeds can be very beneficial for your skin. It prevents the outbreak of acne, moisturizes your skin, prevents dullness, and prevents early signs of ageing as well. Regular consumption of these seeds keep elasticity in place and this is one of the reasons why watermelon seeds should be consumed regularly. Apply the oil of these seeds on your face to block your pores, thereby preventing the outbreak of acne.

It’s 8:30 a.m., and the gate in front of the seafoam green facade of Mokonuts is only halfway lifted, but that doesn’t stop passersby from ducking under it to see about some coffee or a cookie. This 24-seat local favorite calls itself a “café and bakery” on its sign, but it is so much more than that. Almost immediately, I’m welcomed by a familiar call: “Hiieeeee, Sara."

Having bartended at flash-in-the-pan Burger Bar & Fish in Base Village in 2012, the winter I moved to Aspen, my heart swells to see such vibrancy here at last! As I learned on successive visits, there’s a lot to explore. Here are a few favorite bites from this area of lower Base Village:

Fanton’s menu is a cavalcade of carefully executed crowd-pleasers that recalls Eastern Standard: raw bar, charcuterie, pastas, local seafood, roasted and grilled meats and a couple of sandwiches. It starts with four choices of pristine raw oysters ($3 each), delicate fluke crudo ($11) brightened with vivid citrus accents of pomelo segments and blood-orange juice, and Jonah crab cocktail ($12) rendered as an easy-to-share plate of picked claw meat with a subtle mango/lime dressing. Crispy head-on shrimp ($9) deftly combines a generous portion, unoily fry job, lightly kaffir lime-spiked aioli dip and batter that conceals the heads—don’t tell your squeamish friends and they might unwittingly learn why that flavor is so superior to headless. If you’re not yet tired of Spanish octopus ($13), the version here boasts lovely char and a delicate, moist chew.

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While some celebs request 20 different types of beverages, multiple temperatures, oscillating fans, and mirrors at specific angles, others are taking the exact opposite route. Media outlets get their hands on all those dressing room demands, though. Now it’s your turn to have a read. Here are 20 of them, with 10 being total #Diva, eight being adorable and two being downright weird.

Boscawen resident Steven Geddes set the record for second-largest pumpkin in the world at the Deerfield Fair in late September, weighing in at a whopping 2,528 pounds. Courtesy photo

The method generally includes selectively inducing RNA gene silencing in the seed of a transgenic cotton plant, to interfere with expression of the δ-cadinene synthase gene or the δ-cadinene-8-hydroxylase gene in the seed of the cotton plant without substantially affecting expression of that gene in the foliage, floral parts, and roots of the plant.

The world’s largest pumpkin has arrived at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx to live out the rest of its epic life.The 2,528 pound squash is the largest pumpkin  ever grown in North America. Grown by Steve Geddes in New Hampshire, the pumpkin is a pale orange and weighs the equivalent of two adult grizzly bears.

For recipe ideas, try making this Sunflower Seeds and Brussels Sprouts Pesto, or make some Oat Quickbread With Sunflower Seeds and Flax, packed with fiber and whole grains.

If you take a close look at this knobby nut (as in the above photo), you’ll see that it closely resembles the cerebral cortex of the brain! Mother Nature works in mysterious ways, given that this nut is well-known for contributing to brain health. Walnuts date to as far back as 7000 B.C., and were called Juglans regia (“Jupiter’s royal acorn”) by the Ancient Romans. There are two main varieties of walnuts: The Persian (or English) walnut, which originated in Persia, and the black walnut, which is native to United States. However, the black walnut is not commercially produced, which means that most walnuts you buy in the store will be Persian walnuts. Walnuts are an excellent source of antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids, which assist in the creation of new neurons in the brain, and also may work as a mood booster. They also improve cardiovascular health and help cleanse the digestive system due to their high fiber content.