Pumpkin Muffins

I love pumpkin! Pumpkin bread, muffins, pie, cake, smoothies - you name it, I love it. This time of year is always a special treat because I really break out the pumpkin and go to town.

This muffin recipe is pretty much a staple right now. I think I have made it three times so far, so I thought I would share.

Enchilada Pasta

I love anything that is remotely associated with Mexican food. I love Mexican spices and I love cheese.. perfect combination. I have had this recipe tucked away in my book for a long time and finally tried it last night: Yum! It has earned it's keep on the recipe blog.

Mummy Dogs

I love Halloween and Halloween food! It's such a creative time of year that I have so much fun with it. These have been my kids' favorite Halloween food forever. As a matter of fact, when we had them the other day Jessi (from college) was sad we had them without her. They are so simple to make and a huge crowd pleaser. I'm sure I'll make them again for our Halloween party, since Jess will be home for that.

Chocolate Chip Mint Ice Cream

Ice Cream is one of my favorite foods in the whole world. I think it should be it's own food group and part of a healthy diet..... I tried this recipe out during the summer, and fortunately took the time to snap a picture of it before I devoured it: I am just now getting up here on the blog. It is so good, but then ice cream is kind of like pizza or sex - even when it's bad it's good. This is one of the easiest ice cream recipes I have ever made.

Carrot Cake

Jess is in school and I am almost back onto a routine: Lord, I can't wait to get my life back in order. It has been a great summer, but nothing has gotten done. I spent one whole day just cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors....

But, now I am back to trying out my recipes. I have had a few strike outs this week. I don't think it was the recipes really we didn't like but rather the zucchini I was using. I was trying to get through the last of the garden zucchini, but it was bad for some reason. I made a quiche but the zucchini in that was tasteless and had large, tough seeds in it (no, it wasn't a huge zucchini either). Then I tried a turkey/veggie sloppy joe. That zucchini had skin as tough as nails.... I then, at Aaron's very strong request, threw out all the rest of the zucchini: we are done with that, it's SO not worth it.

I did have an amazing conquest however. Alex brought me over a big bag of carrots from his garden. Hmm.... what to do with all those carrots? Well, carrot cake sounds good. And boy howdy, it was a-maz-ing! One of the best carrot cakes I have ever had - a definite keeper.

Orange Glazed Chicken Salad

I love salad. It's one of my favorite things to eat in the Summer time. Cool, nutritious and pretty to look at: so I'm always looking for new salad recipes. This one was pretty dang good. Aaron didn't like the oranges so he opted out of that, but other than that he liked it too. Tasty and beautiful, win win.

I'm Working On It... Okay!

Things have been super crazy around here as of late. I have been working mass amounts of hours, been chasing Aaron around with Chrome Molly on most weekends, and spending every free second I have with Jess before she leaves me for the new chapter in her life. I haven't had time to make dinner let alone try new recipes. Needless to say, my cookbook challenge has been somewhat put on the back burner. 

I have posted all of the recipes I tried right before starting this blog, and already had up on my personal blog. They are recipes I want to keep, so need to be bunched with my library. I will add new ones as I can, but won't really be back on track with my goal until September. Then, hopefully, my life will settle down a little bit. We'll see.....