Saturday Six

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Fall is in the air...the days are still quite warm here but the cooler nights have me craving warm comforting foods like the 40 Cloves and a Chicken recipe posted by Charlie, accompanied by some heavenly mashed potatoes and sauteed spinach. The aroma of roasted garlic is still wafting through the house this morning. smileys/smile.gif

Fall also makes me want to delve into making all sorts of apple, pumpkin, pear, and cinnamon dishes. So many great recipes recently posted here that are calling out to me.

Had some delicious pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting this week. It was great putting my feet up with a slice of that cake and a latte after working hard cleaning the garage. Food rewards...gotta love 'em.

Have some leftover short ribs which I think I'll shred and make enchiladas with using the Red Chile Sauce (Chile Colorado) sauce posted here. Mmmmm....enchiladas....more comfort food.

Come to think of it, maybe I'll fill a few enchiladas with some of last night's leftover garlic chicken. Now how bad could *that* be?

Trying to decide what recipe to prepare for Cookbook Club on Monday. The book being featured this time is A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, by David Tanis. Hmmmm, what to make, what to make?

http://www.amazon.com/Platter-Figs-Other-Recipes/dp/1579653464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254586990&sr=1-1

 
If I go work in my garage, will you bring me some cake and a latte? smileys/wink.gif

That might motivate me to do the work!

 
Saturday Six

1. Baby was up every two hours during the night, but I don't feel too bad, surprisingly.

2. Cheerios for breakfast. I like mixing the sweet with the plain.

3. Have some lovely Bartlett pears that taste soooo good. I love pears.

4. Had a root beer with lunch--it's almost like a dessert.

5. I'm going to make the Norwegian Gold Cake this afternoon. I just can't resist the name.

6. Tomorrow night I'm going to make the chicken recipe in T&T with balsamic vinegar and Boursin cheese. I have a box of that cheese I need to use up and I think that will be perfect. Will serve with acorn squash and wild rice.

Bonus: So glad it's the apple cider time again!

 
Of course! Actually, I've got a pork shoulder slow roasting right now -

we could exchange some beef with red sauce, and pork with green sauce - how about it?

 
Got any root beer left? Try putting a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream in a glass and pour

some root beer over it. Just love those root beer floats.

 
My Saturday Six:

I sound like Morgan Freeman this morning, sore throat & laryngitis (?) so I've been taking it easy. Last night I ordered la Chinoise so I had black bean sauce beef chow fun leftovers for brunch. Such naughty decadence!

Sadly I *have* to get up and go to the bank so I will pick up a chicken on my way home and make crockpot chicken soup for tomorrow.

Now I'm wanting a rootbeer float, thanks Pat!!

Tonight I have to go to the opera, a dear family friend invited me, so I'm bringing lots of lozenges and a red bull in my evening bag.

Tomorrow is an event called Cupcake Camp, I'm thinking I should go and have a cupcake, don't you? I'm wondering if I could make and bring my tirsmisu cupcakes but I'm not sure I can do it all...

Hope you have a great weekend!

 
Baking disaster averted!

Don't try this at home. So I made the batter for the Norwegian Gold Cake and poured it into a tube pan. I almost used my Bundt pan, but thought, no, the recipe calls for a tube pan so use that. So I poured it in and shoved it into the oven.

About 10 minutes later, I went back into the kitchen to get some food for Liam and smelled something burning. I opened the oven, smoke poured out, and I saw that the batter was leaking out of the bottom of the tube pan and onto the bottom of the oven.

!@#$%^&*, said I.

I grabbed an old jelly roll pan to catch the rest of the batter and pulled everything out. I grabbed my Bundt pan and poured what was left of the batter into that (only a cup or two had spilled, but it looked like a lot more). By that time Liam was screaming for his food, so I turned everything off and went and fed him. Then I put him in his bouncy seat and surveyed the damage.

Luckily, the stuff on the bottom of the oven had baked just enough that I could scrape it up with a spatula. So I did that, and shoved the Bundt pan with the leftover batter BACK into the oven and baked it. I KNEW I wanted to use my Bundt pan!

Turned out wonderful. Next time I'm checking to see that the tube pan is properly assembled!

Whew.

 
Cupcake Camp sounds cute. Take pictures!! My Saturday Six

- Finally found some Silver Queen corn (end of the season, and it's been hard to find this year). Love the sweet, white kernels

- I went to pick more crabapples to make cranberry jelly, and came away with a bee sting on the inside of my ring finger - seems he and I chose the same apple at the same time

- On the way back, I stopped at a locally popular vegetable/fruit shop. It's an experience... pumpkins, apples, fudge, freshly made donut smell, cheese, you name it. And over 1000 jars (must be!) of jelly, jam, and pickles. Three roomfulls of them! I had to buy one - sweet onion and pepper relish.

- An apple pie is on the to-do list for this weekend

- I think I have enough pie pumpkins. DH asked why I was hoarding pumpkins. Must get going on deciding on what I want to make with them (other than pie - will make that too).

- Mowed the lawn again today - hopefully the last time until spring. Geesh, it never seems so big as when I'm mowing it.

 
A Revision..... and a goofy story....

My sore throat is worse. Now I sound like Morgan Freeman with a cold.

So I canceled the Opera. The funny thing was that my mom's friend, who invited me, didn't believe it was me on the phone. She kept saying, "But you don't sound like the Heather I know". Well, yeah, I'm sick! I'm not sure how to react to that. Honestly I was hoping for a "there, there, Heather, feel better" or something but not outright disbelief it was me.

So I *had* to go to the bank to deposit items for the rent check, and stopped in to the grocery store to buy a chicken, and root beer, and vanilla ice cream.

Once I got home I stuffed the chicken and a few hacked up veggies into the crock pot, plugged it in and took a 4 hr nap. Then, I realized the Roost didn't smell like chicken yet (am I really that sick??). Well, I hadn't turned on the darn thing. But the chicken was icy cold and so was the ceramic crock pot so I turned it on and returned to bed.

An hour later, still no chicken smell, I thought I should give it a stir or something. I had turned it to "warm". DOH!

Sooooo, I decided to just flip it to high and cook the bejesus out of it and decide what to do in the morning. Sigh.

Now, this is a perfect illustration why we are supposed to have someone to look after us when we are under the weather. Darn cat, he's so useless...

The sad part is that there will be no cupcake camp for me tomorrow. :-9 waaa.

To end on a happy note, I had a rootbeer float for dinner and it really felt good on my throat. Again, thanks Pat!

 
Yay, glad the root beer float helped. Today's chicken should

help even more...feel better soon, Heather.

 
Amanda, Happy to hear that the cake turned out wonderful considering your almost disaster.

 
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