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Roasted Pumpkins

Lovely G, 12 months

Pumpkin Muffins

Made these delicious pumpkins muffins. The recipe is adapted from this one on Dr. Oz's website.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour, white or whole wheat will do
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
1/2 c sugar
1/2 cup canola oil
2 large eggs
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 c chocolate chips- optional

Directions
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and set aside. Whisk the sweetener, oil, eggs, and pumpkin puree. Add in the dry ingredients and fold with a spatula until the flour has been absorbed. Place in muffin tins and bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes.  

Pumpkin Carving

This was Lovely G's  first pumpkin patch trip. It was rather chilly, so though we enjoy spending time at Williamson's Pumpkin Paradise, it was a short visit.

Dad chose a pumpkin for Lovely G.

Crumbs

Just thought I'd share another way we make sure to use every last bit of food for eating (rather than sending to the chickens, dogs, or sheep) around here. I have a constantly growing and disappearing pile of stale bread, biscuits, rolls, chips, and tortillas in the kitchen that we grind into bread crumbs in the food processor. Oh, crackers, too. Anything flour based that is no longer yummy eaten fresh gets crumbed and used later in meatballs, meatloaf, or for coating chicken strips. Just stored in ziploc bags and repurposed jars, I am never without a delicious, ever-changing blend of crumbs.

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