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| Weekend Coffee Share |
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| Kevin got a job doing something he has found enjoyment in doing these days, playing in the dirt. On this job they were clearing trees for a house site. |
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| Stats: 20 pounds plus or minus a pound or 2 or 3, 45 inches in diameter, 14 inches at the top of the steam to the bottom on the ground. |
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| The pumpkin had a little bad spot there on it's top & it was flat on the back side but it worked perfect for my use. |
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| I cooked 1/2 of the pumpkin to put in the freezer to make pies later on & a cup of it went into a pot of pumpkin chili I made this week. |
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| The other 1/2 went to the chickens for their help in carving a jack-o-lantern. |
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| Mashing up the cooked pumpkin to make a thick puree. It wasn't the perfect sugar pie pumpkin for making pies, but it'll work. The peeled chunked cooked pieces looked kinda like pineapples. |
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| To make pumpkin chili, I made my regular chili recipe that's on the back of the chili seasoning pack then added a cup of pumpkin, 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice & 1 tablespoon of brown sugar. |
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| Happy Halloween Month. |
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2. Go to a fall festival ✅ 12. Drink spiced apple cider ✅
6. Get some pumpkins ✅ 17. Carve a jack-o-lantern ✅
8. Watch fall/Halloween 18. Make pumpkin chili ✅
movies every day in October. ✅
1. The Curse of Bridge Hollow 4. There's Someone Inside Your House
2. We have a Ghost 5. Wednesday
3. Casper 6. Hubie Halloween
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| Mushroomy things were the things to see during this week's jeep ride exploring in the mountains. |
These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?
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| This brought back memories of selling chestnuts back in elementary school during the Harvest Sale days in the 1970s. |
I love how the chickens helped with your jack-o-lantern 🎃
ReplyDelete🙂 busy week
ReplyDeleteWe had a busy weekend. Got the garden all cleaned out, mowed the park and our yard. Hopefully for the last time this year! I cleaned out flower beds & started digging up irises. Should have been thinned a few years ago!!
ReplyDeleteThose are some pretty mushrooms! I always admire people who can identify mushrooms...and which ones you can eat!
ReplyDeleteI miss baking and pureeing pumpkin! I used to grow my own pumpkin and winter squash and spend a good part of a weekend processing and freezing them. It was wonderful to have pumpkin on hand for pumpkin bread and pancakes and... now I'm hungry. Maybe I'll find some time this year to do it. Maybe. I never thought to add pumpkin to chili. Interesting idea!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy these posts. I like the way you say, "come walk with me" and the photo is so pretty of the cup of coffee and the misty looking meadow. Glad your husband has a new job he enjoys. Boys and their toys!! They like to dig up stuff, huh? Your pumpkin was perfect for all of its purposes. I hope to go pick out some tomorrow. Can't believe we are already into the second week of October. We usually go to the pumpkin patch but no one seems interested this year. I love pumpkin chili. Yours sounds even better than the recipe I use. YUM!!
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