It is official!  I have made the most awesome bread ever  I got the recipe from here and tweaked it just a little bit.  I used a new-to-me pan too, a 4 1/2 x 12, which I love. It got done so much quicker!!  The bread is nice and light but still holds together well, [...]

Who knew they would be so good?!  We tried homemade spears given to me by a friend, and some store brand chips.  I voted the spears the best!  The Boyfriend liked the chips better.  We made some fry sauce for dipping.  They were seriously good, but I could only eat a few.  I would definitely do [...]

I roasted our last pie pumpkin last night  I may buy one more but that will be it, since we still have a ton of assorted squash downstairs.  I used half of the puree, about 1 pound, for this pumpkin bread.  It made two decent sized loaves, and only one stuck to the bottom of [...]

I have buying bags of bananas at the grocery store to bring home and freeze for smoothies.  Normally I prefer organic bananas, especially for eating.  I like them before they get too spotty and the non-organic ones usually have less flavor and leave my mouth feeling coated, and well, they don’t taste very good.  But [...]

I’m craving all kinds of soup lately.  Last night’s was creamy roasted squash.  Today I had the fixings for a posole kind of soup.  I don’t know how authentic it is, since I just kind of threw things in, but it was very tasty!  We had it with some fresh bread and rolls with cornmeal [...]

I wanted to make a pumpkin cheesecake, but didn’t want to use 3 packages of cream cheese and tons of sugar.  I was searching for a pumpkin cream cheese pie, but didn’t like what I found.  So I decided to wing it, and I really liked the results!!  It’s not quite pumpkin pie, it is creamier. [...]