fall love food

 I love apples!  I love fall! Apple are a great fall food!

One think that I have really enjoyed about living where I do is the fresh fruit.  It is so good!  As you can see from this picture I did not hold back when I went to buy fruit from a fruit stand just down the way.  OHh soo good.  I had aspirations to make something with the apples... but that didn't happen... I ate them all.  :)  lol I did enjoy one with my favorite EXTRA Crunch Jiff Peanut butter sent to me via my mother. :)   Thanks mom. :) 

I have also had the great fortune of enjoying amazing food with amazing friends.  One of my favorite things is to cook, with or for someone.  For this Mexican meal we did both.  (And yes it was as good/better then it looks)

Right now I am faced with the problem of having many left overs.  I have rice, noodles, veggies galore, and other odds and ins. What do I do?  I found this recipe from 101 cookbooks and I may tweek it to make a rice and veggie soup.  We shall see how it turns out. :)  

Ohh! Happy Thanksgiving week to everyone!  Enjoy all you can with your families, and friends.  I hope you can truly treasure the moments and the small things you can spend time doing. 

Sayonaraさよなら

Hello October

Slieve Croob in Ireland - August

I had decided that I wanted to write more, and I wanted to write creatively like I used to before the days of college research papers and work deadlines. At the very moment that I decided this, writer's block came over me like the rain storm that soaked me to the bone. So I didn't worry about what I wrote for a while, and I didn't write here either.

I have been taking notes about life and people I see like the wild haired girl in the red rain boots driving the golf cart like she is in Nascar. And the lady talking about her aunt that was afraid of getting lost and to meet up at McDonald's. My grandmother told me a story about her mother getting married at 18 and taking a home economics class to learn how to cook per her mother's suggestion. But instead of learning how to make things like cornbread and buttermilk biscuits, she learned how to make hollandaise sauce. I love taking notes. It makes me more observant and more perceptive. It makes bad experiences funny ones, and sweet stories even sweeter. I jot notes down before I get out of the car to walk into work, right after lunch, or at the gym. There are stories everywhere bursting to be told. They just need a messenger.

I made this bread with roasted butternut squash the other day and it was amazing. Please bake it and share!

Abi (who I am seeing in just DAYS!!) sent me these books all compiled into one, and I can't believe I have not read them sooner.


I think this is the best cheap red wine.

I have pumpkins coming up in my backyard. Please get bigger. Makes me want to watch this for old times sake.

We sang Amazing Grace in church this morning, and I am reminded how amazing God's grace is more and more every day. And His grace is free.

Gray Room-Wallace Stevens

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"Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan Printed with the red branches of a red willow; Or, with one finger, Move the leaf in the bowl-- The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia Beside you... What is all this? I know how furiously your heart is beating."