Ughhh...

I am sick, thought at first I was just fighting a cold, now, starting to believe it might have morphed into a sinus infection. Ughhhh..... I can't taste or smell anything. Being sick sucks.

Happy Halloween!!!

It is going to be a fun sugar filled night of trick or treating! The highlight of my day will be dressing little man and taking him out tonight, he gets so excited! Until then, it will be hang out at home and cook soup. I am trying to fight off a major cold and am thinking some wonderful hot soup will help. I am taking a sausage and kale soup recipe from www.prouditaliancook.com and adding a few things that need to be used out of the frig. It should make a yummy and comforting lunch! If it is good, I will post the recipe.

Right now, I am eating what I believe is the child of a navel orange and a ruby red grapefruit. They are delicious!

Heavenly world of pumpkin

I made what started out as pumpkin chocolate bars (I added cranberries and walnuts also), but I over mixed them and was too lazy to get the 9x13 pan down, so they became cake cookie things....they are amazing, I can't stop eating them. My only problem is that they are falling apart! But the broken ones are just as yummy as the whole ones!

Also made some amazing roasted sweet potato soup (added a bit of squash and pumpkin), I have only tasted a little, waiting for dinner to have a bowl with marscapone and bacon on top!

Food, food, and more food

Still on a baking roll this week, so far I made cream cheese banana bread (amazing), more roasted chickpeas, pumpkin donut holes (from www.twopeasandtheirpod.com, so yummy!), pumpkin bread (from www.mybakingaddiction.com, oh yeah pumpkin heaven), chocolate chip bars, roasted acorn squash risotto, and roasted tomato soup (from www.smittenkitchen.com, so good on a cool day!). Hubby and I also made sausage gravy and biscuits yesterday for breakfast.... so it has been a quite a culinary couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed baking and cooking, it has been a nice stress reliever and a lot of fun getting my little angel to help. The key that I have to start doing, is not to eat everything I bake.... it is making maintaining weight a bit challenging if I eat three servings of the yummies I am baking! That is the goal for next week!

Weekly recipe update

It is Sunday, hope to watch some football later, very happy that the Hokies won yesterday!!!! I have been very culinary this week; Wednesday I made apple pie muffins (amazing) and roasted cauliflower soup (OK, but I might look for another recipe, it has too much or not enough of something), Thursday was chocolate chip cookies for my little angel's preschool, Friday I made my husband's family recipe cheesecake (absolutely amazing), and Saturday I made a pumpkin cheesecake (Paula Dean's recipe, just sinful, can't stop eating it) and roasted chickpeas (from www.whatsgabycooking.com, sooooo good). Today I will probably make the roasted chickpeas again, so I have a snack for football! It has been a good baking week!

I am not sure what I will be making next week, but I have some broccoli and cauliflower to use up, maybe try another soup. Also have some squash and mushroom, believe they will go to risotto one day for lunch, and I have some chicken breast thawing out for a good faux fried chicken recipe from http://www.thepioneerwomencooks.com . The fall weather is really hitting me, I love it, all I want to do is walk around outside and enjoy the beautiful crisp air!

Apple pie muffins!

The apple pie muffins are amazing! They made the house smell so good and the muffins themselves were just yummy! The recipe came from http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/. Highly recommended!

Hershey and food

Spent last weekend in Hershey, PA for family birthday party. Grandma is turning 80 and Grandpa is turning 85. It was fun, but family wears me out.... There is a bit of tension between some of the family, but it was really good to see everyone, because no matter what, they are family and I love them! The drive was beautiful, the trees are starting to turn and it was a gorgeous day. Had a great time spending the weekend with Hubby and little man. It was really nice to get out of town and get a change of perspective. On Saturday there is a big fleamarket outside of town, there are lots of Amish farmers and bakers and we ate ourselves silly on whoopie pies, cookies, and cake!

Work is a little frustrating this week, sometimes the politics just get to me. When it got too bad this week, I just thought about the yummy recipes I was going to try this week: roasted cauliflower soup, apple pie muffins, and maybe some chocolate cupcakes! Speaking of, time to preheat the oven!