Happy Halloween!!
October was a busy month from day one to today, but all those busy days added up to a fun and super fulfilling month.
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Mount Adams 10/22/16 – 4.8 RT
Last Saturday Brody and I met up with our friends Baxter and Carrie for another hiking session, despite poor weather forecasts. Sometimes you just have to get out there anyway, because there is so much to see and do and not enough time to do it all….
This fun recipe came to me late this summer. I was looking for something to do with the abundance of eggplant that graced our presence. I love eggplant parmesann, but there’s only so much parmesann that one can eat before you start to go a little crazy. At least that’s what Chuck said, and so the quest for fun new eggplant recipes began.
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Bread has been the foundation of the human diet for millions of cultures for thousands of years. Here in the US, the tradition of baking bread daily has largely died in favor of the convenience of the grocery store. Most of what you can buy in the store these days, however, is not actual bread. It may have started that way but in the process of industrializing, and then later fortifying the bread-like product that now lines our shelves is nothing like the original bread that we are used to eating. It’s for this reason I have started to learn make baking bread more of a habit around our house….
I have a love hate relationship with fall. I love the crisp weather, fall foliage, cider doughnuts, and bonfires, but it’s also a lot of work. There is the garden to put to bed, vegetables to can, dehydrate and freeze, wild game to be hunted and butchered, it’s a lot and making time for it when you have a full time job and a social life is not the easiest. Somehow we make it all work and still find time to sit by the fire with a glass of wine to relax. It’s really one of my absolute favorite things to do after all that work.
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