I'm STILL working on cookies for my husband's job. I'm beginning to become grouchy. Actually, that's not the truth, I passed grouchy yesterday. I'm out of most of the ingredients so happily, I can't make any more until he brings more groceries home.
SOOO, instead, I am cooking pumpkins! I had planned to can pumpkins but according to what I have just read on the Internet regarding canning pumpkins, I am kind of afraid to can them! I understand that it is impossible at home to heat the pumpkin up to a temperature hot enough to kill botulism. So I guess I will just freeze them. My mother has canned pumpkins for years and years and hasn't killed anyone yet but leave it to me...I will make someone sick somehow!
I have lots and lots and lots of pumpkins. Our church was giving them away last week and I waited until everyone had what they wanted and then I got some more for us. Many of them are just the regular "jack-o-lantern" type but I am going to use them anyway. I hate to see them just go to waste. I can use them to make cookies, bread, muffins AND stir into regular mashed potatoes! The good little "pie" pumpkins I will save just for that...PIES! My daughters (16 and 12) have been pestering me to make pumpkin pies so that is on the agenda for this week!
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Oh! You make me hungry. I have never tried using a real pumpkin for a pie. I just buy it in a can and open it up. I am sure the fresh is much better. Boy, you are always one busy lady. That is a lot of cookies to bake.
ReplyDeleteWe are doing well. My husband has a sinus cold but he is better. We are hoping to miss the flu.
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Oh goodness, I hope you are both going to miss the flu! I think my kids have been suffering from just the regular flu and not H1N1. Hope he feels better soon!
ReplyDeleteGlad you ran out of ingredients! A break always helps me chase the grouchy away, too.
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