Tag: pumpkin

  • #VirtualPumpkinParty: Pumpkin Pie Cake

    As I mention every year, pumpkin season is the best season. I secretly do not mind when it starts just a bit earlier each year (though I’ll admit, this year’s first pumpkin spice related sighting may have come a bit too early). I do not get pumpkined out. So when I saw that my friend…

  • A Day Off: Projected Intentions

    Posting here has been scarce, for good reason. I’m in my last semester of a post-bacc teaching certification program at a local university. That means I’m student teaching. So far it has been frustrating, exciting, exhausting, frustrating, time consuming, and fun. But above all, time consuming and exhausting. I’m convinced it’s harder to do as…

  • Brooklyn Pumpkin Tour

    Can you imagine anything more exciting than a Brooklyn Pumpkin Tour? I certainly can’t. Brooklyn Based just published a post on where to get the best pumpkin stuffs in the area. They also link to this Pumpkin Ale Chocolate Cake recipe. Mmm-hmm. This whoopie pie doesn’t look like it quite measures up to my Amish/Mennonite…

  • Pumpkin and chocolate

    I’m fairly certain the combination of pumpkin and chocolate is to me what peanut butter and jelly is to normal people. Unfortunately, I really only partake of this delicious marriage of foods in the fall. Fortunately, I’ve done an awful lot of partaking so far this fall. I’ve made two batches of pumpkin and chocolate…

  • Weekend To-Do List

    I had plans to have a really autumnal weekend . . . farmers’ market, fall foliage viewing, mulled cider, pumpkin bread — the works! However, I have had to alter my plans. Now . . . Stay inside Drink lotsa hot chocolate and lattes and other warm drinks Bake pumpkin bread and pumpkin muffins and…