the last time i was here i started writing a post about halloween--but i never finished it because it was mostly just me bitching about how halloween becomes a free-for-all for people to shower my children with junk food. and now i find myself bitching about valentine's day so i thought i'd start another, hopefully less snarky, post ;)
i'll use this post to bring you all (bueller? bueller?) up to date on what i've been up to, and then i'll post another one
so first of all, back around halloween i decided that if people were going to bring food to M's school halloween party, i would provide at least one "real" food option. so i made these pumpkin muffins and dressed them up like so:
then for thanksgiving (well, pseudo-thanksgiving--my side of the family was going to be in a bunch of different places for real thanksgiving, so we decided to do it early) i used a loaf of the pumpkin bread from above (i had doubled it when i made the muffins) and made this awesome stuffing.
and for the record, i made my own pumpkin puree. i only mention this because you should all know how incredibly easy this is to do. this is how easy. try it--trust me. i used a less-than-4lb pumpkin and got about 4 cups of puree. i freeze what i don't use in one cup containers so i can thaw what i need.
and for hanukkah, my wonderful husband got me pasta attachments for our kitchenaid--which, by the way, i had never used in almost 8 years of marriage! so with my very own hands i made this pasta:
and turned it into this dinner:
and i made these raviolis too:
which looked pretty and tasted ok but not great--they're on my list to try again.
so there you have it--a quick snapshot of the goings-on in my kitchen for the last few months. now stay tuned for how i'm going to piss off 21 kindergartners by serving fruit instead of candy for valentine's day ;)
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