Sweet Potato-Almond Pie

First layer of the pie--Sweet Potatoes,allspice,butter,vanilla,milk,cinnamon,brown sugar

Second layer--simple syrup,almonds,1 egg,brown sugar

15 bean Soup with Kelbasa

This has turned out to be a guy-pleaser in our house.On one of those discovery health shows a few years ago,I saw that beans have some nutrient that is good for a guy's "health" (wiggles eyebrows) shall we say.It turned out to be a joke that I made the bean soup whenever I wanted to get the husband in a "happy mood".

I take a package of 15 bean soup (without seasonings-too salty for my taste) and cook in crockpot until tender.I add whatever seasonings catch my eye (chili,cumin,taco,salt,pepper,red chili flake) and chop up a few links of kelbasa into bite size chunks.I usually use turkey kelbasa.

I add the kelbasa as close to the end cooking time of the beans as I can so it will still heat up without being cooked to mush.Sometimes I serve over rice.Sometimes with corn bread.Whatever I have handy.It's a definate cool weather favorite in our house-and not for the "health benefits"! AHEM! That's what's for supper tonight---I wonder if it will make hubby "happy" today?

I had a ham monte cristo sandwich for supper....YUM!

Oct 6 breakfast

Chicken spinach feta sausage--I turned around to do something else for a sec and I think I let it get chopped a little too fine!

Found the scret to cooking the perfect scrambled eggs.COOK THEM ON LOW heat-saw that on foodnetwork back a while ago and my eggs have been coming out wonderfully every since!

Alright,I'll confess-they are NOT homemade! They are the from the frozen section.I want to get organized/handy enough to where I can make a batch and freeze them so I can have scratch biscuits anytime without all the fuss.**sigh** One day......

When I texted hubby to let him know I had turned off the house alarm this morning (so he won't try to come in and set the darned thing off at like 7am! LOL),I asked what he wanted for breakfast.He asked if we had anymore hash.Um,NO! I had the last of the leftovers in a sandwich for breakfast yesterday. But we did have more chicken sausage in the freezer (no hashbrown potatoes though).This morning it was chicken-spinach-feta sausage hash with biscuits and scrambled eggs.Hubby was not fond of the hash today LOL.Not sure if it was because it tasted different LOL or if I kinda got busy doing something else and let the processor chop it too fine! It was good,but sunday's hash was definately better!

And yes,we use paper plates.Personally it doesn't really make a difference,but the husband thinks that if we use paper plates,it'll mean fewer dishes to wash.UM,maybe like 3 few plates....But we still have to wash the pots and pans I made dinner in so what's a few more things in the dishwasher.Grandpa thinks that way too.Whatever!

Monday~Monday

Slice the squash very thin and cook until it kind of carmelizes.This is something that the hubby's mom and housekeeper would make when he was little.I sauteed it in a little olive oil and with a little salt and ALOT of pepper.

I really didn't know WHAT to make for dinner tonight.I picked up a couple of pounds of yellow squash at the store today and I knew I wanted that,but had no clue what to cook with them.I fished around in the freezer and pulled out some turkey kelbasa and made brown rice(grandpa doesn't like pasta) and cheesy italian pasta (one of those veggie steamer bags).Dessert was a fruit salad with pineapple,banana,mango, and pear.

Rainy Sunday morning breakfast

Chicken-apple sausage and diced hashbrowns cooking in a little olive oil.

I drained in a collander to make sure it wasn't greasy.

Add a few fried eggs and hubby was a happy man this morning!

Hubby doesn't think it's a proper meal without some sort of "meat"-I'm trying to convince him otherwise.When he asked "what's for breakfast"this morning,I popped open the oven door and showed him the biscuits he asked "that's it?" LOL.So along with the eggs,I made homemade chicken-apple sausage hash.I put some chicken- apple sausages "links" into the processor and got them nice and chopped.I found a half bag of diced hashbrown potatoes in the freezer and cooked them together in a little olive oil (the chicken sausage is lean compared to other sausage).Can I say BRAIN-BLAST!!!! That was delish! I am never buying canned hash again.This was so good I can't tell you! Definately another favorite!

saturday

How tall this fall? Zachary is 4ft2--6 1/2 yrs old--exactly 1 foot shorter than his mom~!

Tinkie sporting her new red shirt and red harness~she matches my purse!

OK,I'm ready! Can we go now!?

Well,I was up sick half the night and got up feeling so weak that hubby called the gun safety class leader for me and asked if there would be another class soon-so I will be taking the one in the spring.I was so weak when I got up this morning my knees were shaky. I think it had something to do with my blood sugar-once overnight I got up to check it and it was like 63--WOAH time to eat something.Then I over did it (counted carbs wrong) and woke up with it high.I should know how to do that better by now but it's still a challenge.I hate diabetes!!

We went back to bed and laid around being lazy a few hours and hubby helped his dad out in the backyard for a bit.Then we decided OK we need to get out of the house for a bit.We took Zachary and Tinkie to Lazy Acres Pumpkin Patch (it's also a christmas tree farm).Tinkie did really well in the car.She would snooze a little and look out the window some and then fall back asleep.LOL She did really well for being on her leash for only the second time.She ran around and was so excited seeing all the new people and enjoyed being out in the warm sun.One attraction that they have is that they do a pig race where they let the piggies out of their pen and they run around a circle track back to their feed bowls-it's absolutely HILARIOUS.We didn't see that this year but said hello to the piggies.We thought Tinkie might have over done it-she got really panty and laid down and was just acting so worn out-kinda scared us a little.We made her drink some water and we rested a little and hitched a ride back to the country store on a tractor driven hay ride.She liked that I think-except for all the tractor noise!We only stayed about 2 hours I would say.Might have stayed longer if Tinkie wasn't with us,but we had a blast! Zach picked out a HUGE pumpkin.I told him we might try and go back again later this month if it gets cooler.I want to go again when the christmas tree farm part is open,I've never been to that.They have a "sleigh" pulled by reindeer I think.All in all it was a pretty good afternoon.

Getting ready for Halloween

OOOOH I love this little guy--he's a HELMET WARRIOR from HAWAII--meant for protection.

A fall wreath I made 2 or 3 years ago.....

4 little pumpkins all in a row.....and a witch house on the top shelf---these stay out all year in my sewing room/office.

Basketball pumpkin and scary face pumpkin.Right now on the table in the living room-they didn't fit right in the window this year.Not sure where they will go next.

Glass pumpkin on curio in living room-I want to get a bigger one.

Mandatory window clings......

Hubby made me put the yellow ribbon on it-not sure if I like that part or not.This is a new decoration this year.

Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Little wiz of oz witch in curio cabinet in living room.

A little Bewitched? This stays out all year-on the wall in my sewing room/office.

Going a little batty? LOL This is one of the first decorations I bought.It's in the window of my office/sewing room.





HAPPY HALLOWEEN