Sweet Paul

I want to send a big shout out to Liesl & Miles over at the Nest for posting about this wonderful site!

They shared a new to me site…. Sweet Paul Magazine…. It is to die for!

They have the greatest ideas and the recipes are fab!

The Galette, Pretzels and a ton of other great recipes and design ideas!

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I did a very bad thing

I spent our whole pay check… The bills are paid and there is money set aside for expenses till the next pay. But I spent everything else.

I bought:

Farmers Market 50lbs potatoes 25lbs peanuts 25lbs turnips 1 bushel of apples 6 pumpkins assorted squash lettuce parsnips tomatoes celery peppers 5 cabbage green onions cranberries pomegranates bananas radishes dried figs	Grocery Store toilet paper dish soap shampoo conditioner razors dental floss sandwich bags laundry soap blueing agent vitamins thermos
Specialty Stores cereal safflower oil pizza crust mix halloween candy milk eggs sharp cheddar cheese cottage cheese salami tortilla tortilla chips parmesan cheese	Extra Shops Bag sale at church $2 ~ twin flannel sheet set, 6 paper backs, glass globe, knitting needles, mitten pattern book Micheals 4lbs glycerin, 3pk color, 1 scent, 2 skeins of yarn, 1 bag of melts Ukazoo Book Store Idiots guide to knitting and crochet, interview with a vampire, pride and prejudice and zombies, and sense and sensibility and sea monsters

Now wasn’t that fun…. LOL! Sometimes you just need to see it in writing before it sinks in that you bought a ton of stuff. But this will last at least 2 weeks. Some things will last well into the winter. Next pay I should only need food and baking supplies (butter, baking soda… I guess I should start a list now… LOL!)

And of course I will be heading back to Ukazoo. I told Grim about it and he is looking forward to checking it out. Gotta Love new stores! I will try and get some pic the next time I’m there.

This ended up being much longer then I originally intended.

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Punkin Chunkin Time

Here are a few recipes that I stumbled across that I thought you might be interested in.

Pumpkin Bacon Pasta

Pumpkin and Pancetta Pasta

Pumpkin Pierogies with Pecan Sage Cream Sauce

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds with Sea Salt

Apple Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin Chili

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Fanciful Twist Halloween Party

 

Oh, Dear! Oh, My!

 

The rain has come….

 

The rain has stayed….

 

All the party goes will pass right by!

 

No tents of fun….

 

No treats of sweet….

 

The rain has soaked everyone’s feet!

 

The skulls look sad….

 

The pumpkins look on….

 

Maybe next year the party will go on!

 

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Garbage Lids

Yep, that’s what we call it when we make homemade pizza. Generally, because I toss all kinds of stuff on… LOL!

The one on the right is just pepperoni and cheese. The one on the left has leftover hamburger, onions, tomatoes, butternut squash and cheese. We were out of pizza sauce so we used spaghetti sauce. It was a very nice stand in.

The one that isn’t pictured had pepperoni, onions, green peppers, sweet peppers, pepper seeds and cheese.

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And a Few Nuts More

Grim took me out yesterday on the bike… We had a nice ride even though it was cold enough for me to have to put my face mask on. He’s a big guy so I didn’t need my chaps yet. Those will be coming out soon.

We stopped at one of our favorite spots. The hopes of finding black walnuts were quickly dashed. The only ones we saw were smushy. So off to find a potty. As I was walking out of the potty I happened to notice acorn tops. Then I notice acorns. Not very big ones but acorns none the less. Grim and I picked up as many as we could fit into our pockets. Then wouldn’t you know it, we found black walnuts but had no place to put them as we were pretty far away from the bike at that time. That’s ok, we ended up with 1lb 6oz of acorns.

Now here is what to do with them. You can grind them into flour! Click Here for all your acorn answers.

**Side note** I know why I was able to get so many acorns… The majority of them were bad. That’s why the squirrels left them. Now I know to get my butt out there earlier and try to get good ones.

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Just a few Nuts

The table is 3x5 and as you can see it goes from one end to the other and almost to both sides. This is 25 pounds of Chestnuts that we went picking a couple of weeks ago.

The place that we went to had a buy back program. They would buy back any that you didn’t want for .50 cents a pound. We sold back 45 pounds. I would have picked until all of mine were free but the family grew tired and bored.

I already cooked up a pile of them… They are so good! I do still have a ton in the freezer to enjoy all winter long. You can go here to see how to roast them up.

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