Tag Archives: Pumpkin

Pumpkin Chips? This week in Fail……

Yes, I said pumpkin chips. Crisp and chewy….strange And I said FAIL. I’m down to two pumpkins left.  Can you believe it?  I decided to try something different with this pumpkin. After an evening of dinner failure, that resulted in a dinner out.  Okay, that deserves more of an explanation.  I planned to make a …

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Banana Pumpkin Muffins

My continuing saga to use up my pie pumpkins……. I made pumpkin banana muffins on Saturday night. We had some lovely friends over for dinner and I always like to send them home with some baked goodie for breakfast the next morning. Since I had just baked pumpkin number 3 of 6, I figured pumpkin …

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Good Morning Pie

Of course, I made pumpkin pie with one of the Halloween pumpkins I’m not a robot. Okay, I dressed up as a robot wife for Halloween, but I’m fairly sure I am not a Stepford wife. I guess I’d be the last one to know though huh? Yes, it’s true, I’m eating pie for breakfast. …

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What to do with Halloween pumpkins

After the Halloween party, I had 6 lovely pumpkins to deal with. The first one met my knife yesterday and then I gutted and roasted it. Does that sound homicidal? Perhaps I’ve been watching too much crime tv huh? I roasted the pumpkin seeds. Here is what I coated them with: 2 tsp olive oil …

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Happy Halloween!

The great things about Halloween are the fun, the friends and the candy. And…. the Halloween parties are such fun! Muahahahaha! The good things about parties are too numerous to mention. The bad thing about parties is the clean-up. Yeah. Love parties, hate clean-up. Great parties need a day of rest after them. Well, at …

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Kabocha squash- an unusual suspect

Yesterday I showed you my lovely squash.  Don’t get cheeky, I’m talking about these squash. Can Texans say cheeky and get away with it?  Here’s hoping the answer is yes! 😀 I oven roasted the kabocha squash, which I keep mispronouncing as kobayashi… making me think of Mr. Kobayashi, making me think of  The Usual …

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Cinderella Pumpkin bread

I love pumpkin bread. Love, love, love pumpkin bread. It’s one of my favorite sweet breads. In fact, the only bread I like better than pumpkin is cranberry banana. Because I like pumpkin bread so much, I’ve tried many different recipes. Sort of like the Prince trying to find Cinderella. I have tried many that …

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