The email said “Spruced-Up Spice Cookies.” I have to be honest. I am sort of an instant gratification girl when it comes to baking. I want to make the dough and plop whatever in the oven and have baked goods shortly there after, maybe an hour or so if I am talking breads. I am… Continue reading Spice Cookies
As the holidays approach, my oven is going non-stop. I love to bake. My favorite ingredients in autumn are pumpkin and apple and cranberry. Because both my parents are diabetic, I spend a lot of time trying to make my tried and true recipes better. I know how is it possible to make something better.… Continue reading Baking Without Sugar
I have never before made a trifle. I went out and bought a cheap plastic bowl to make this one in as I didn’t even have a bowl for it. I also, as I have mentioned many times, altered the recipe I found to make myself happy. First off, I made my own gingerbread. … Continue reading Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle
Let me start by saying my family gets annoyed with my soup attempts. They do not believe that a soup course is necessary with big family meals. This year, though, we were eating Thanksgiving dinner later – around 3:30 pm – due to work schedules. I served the soup at 1 pm as a way… Continue reading Pumpkin Soup with Bleu Cheese and Bacon
The color pumpkin is one of my favorite colors. Case in point, the shirt I have on for the big concert tonight – I have floor tickets to see Little Big Town and Carrie Underwood – is pumpkin colored. My most requested baked good is pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. My favorite season of the year… Continue reading Pumpkin
Okay – so as part of the Triple 8 Reading Challenge and as a year long workshop, I am reading Celebrate Your Creative Self by Mary Todd Beam. I have been patiently awaiting the mail delivery of my book and have had a friend tell me the basic concept. Unfortunately, one of the promises I… Continue reading Creative Self
I am crushing on … pumpkin. The GPP Street Team\’s Crusade #12 is what are you crushing on. Well, I am – as always at this time of the year – obsessing and crushing on pumpkin. I love the color – a true pumpkin, not a burnt orange but a pumpkin orange. I would easily… Continue reading Crushing on … Pumpkin
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