Pumpkin and Wild Rice Soup

I chose to make pumpkin soup and although I liked it~it was a bit grainy for me. The wild rice made it MUCH better! I think next time I will add in more cream. Also would have been good with cumin!


1 pureed pumpkin.

1 box of organic chkn broth.

1 1/2 c cooked wild rice

splash of 1/2 and 1/2

celery salt

coriander


Puree the roasted pumpkin and then add chicken broth and cook wild rice. Add in the other ingredients and simmer for 30-60 min.

Serve with Artisan Bread!!!

OCTOBER

Marks the month of the PUMPKIN....

soup

bars

bread

scones

pancakes

waffles

muffins

cookies

AND

pumpkin roll....that one family recipe that will live forever!

Vacation

Pardon my absence.....I was at the beach!



Today I bought a pumpkin and made Pumpkin and Wild Rice Soup, and Artisan Bread. It was rainy this A.M. and so it was a perfect soup day! I baked the pumpkin and pureed it~mind you I almost lost my food processor~which caused a minor panic. Alas all is well it is working again. Then I added chicken broth wild rice and coriander and some celery salt...simmered that for a while and added a splash of cream and served it for dinner! 

Garden style

The other day I picked all my tomatoes, but didn't have time to do anything with them, SO I left them. Then they just started to turn. I chopped them up and made the MOST amazing spaghetti sauce. I added some garlic, basil and onion and olive oil. No recipe just what sounded good at the time. THEN I didn't have time to process it into jars so i stuck it in the fridge. TODAY was crazy so I pulled out the sauce, oven roasted some garlic and zucchini and added it to the sauce, cooked up some pasta and wha~la~DINNER!!!!

Baking up a little

Something something!!!!!

Apple....

   Apple Cinnamon Scones....was going to make them this morning but then I received a text from my sweet husband last night saying to save them because he was making french toast! WHO could resist that? French toast is my FAVORITE breakfast treat!

    I ended up making our homemade syrup. Did you know you can make syrup? At a FRACTION of the cost of store bought? MIND you it isn't the real deal maple stuff that comes from the tree...BUT its tastes WAY better than that popular butter brand~you all know what I am talking about! I started making it because well lets face it, High Fructose Corn Syrup is in that store bought brand, and I wont do it. I am tellin ya that stuff is from the devil himself! I try my very hardest not to buy that stuff so I started making it. The first time I did my husband poo pooed the idea, thinking there was NO WAY it could taste as good. To his surprise he liked it SO much he now lets me know in advance when we will need it! :) The only downfall I have discovered is that homemade syrup does not last. I am afraid you cant make it with all the poison...ahem....preservatives like the store bought kind. You can look up recipes and try them out, but I just add in equal portions of white and brown sugar and a bit o butter and some water enough to make it the consistency we like! I add a dash of maple flavoring after its boiled!

creating

....this blog should be more about our life round here than about baking because this week I haven't baked anything!

Ok well I did make a chocolate zucchini cake that is to die for on Saturday....

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/PrintRecipeOld?RID=R1545


BUT this week has been fix the tile in the bath upstairs week! We, and I do mean we because my STELLAR husband has done MOST of the intensive labor, took of the plastic tile and scrapped all the old glue off. Today my dad came over and helped Chris put up concrete wall and now we are tapping it and getting ready for me to tile tomorrow!!!


here is a pic of it all finished!!