Merry Christmas!!!

A very Merry snowy Christmas to you!!!

Love our gingerbread house lit up - even better with the snow this year!

Pumpkins!

It's official: pumpkin fever has struck the W Family. In a serious way. Yup. It sort of started with the pumpkin-shaped cornbreads, but then it grew. I guess I could say I was inspired by my SMU roomie, Kat, who's become Baltimore's domestic dive - an entire week of pumpkin recipes (among many other delicious looking creations!)! So, today, I made roasted pumpkin and butternut squash soup and roasted pumpkin seeds.

*it's so hard to get soups and things to photo well!*

*mmmmm! toasty!*

The soup recipe is from Good Things Catered, another blog - all of her recipes that I've tried have been fab! And not crazy hard. And is so good! It's almost hard to describe the flavor - so just swing by for some instead! :-)

For the record though, as much as I love all things pumpkin, I DO NOT have a future as a pumpkin cleaner-outer. Nope. But I only cut my finger today, nothing too crazy like my usual klutzy self!

And we just keep getting more random...

I totally never meant to take a month and change off from this - but between school and everything else, it sort of happened! Whoops. I'll do better this subterm (which starts next week!), I promise! Anyway... Onward to more W Family randomness.

So, the other day at school we had a foodie-type discussion and the topic of things people will not eat came up. And, of course, I got the looks when I said I don't eat red meat. I mean, we are in Texas after all, no? And I don't eat the national food. Oh well.

Then today, I stumble across this post at slashfood. Foods celebrity chefs won't touch. Which is rounded out by this, from the author:

"As for this writer? Red meat is just not for me; the taste, the texture -- it's all unappealing to me. I didn't like it even as a kid, and stopped eating it altogether when I was 12. Strangely, I don't mind cooking it for others, but other than bacon, which is closer to potato chips than meat in my mind, red meat is off the list."

I think I have a way to describe why I let eveyone else have my share of cows! :-) So awesome.

You didn't think I wasn't going to post our funny furbaby, did you? Of course not!


This was the best I could snap... Princess Gizmo was way more interested in shaking her baby to death than sitting still for a picture! ;-)

Oh, yum!

Best thing about Fall? Besides football, turkey chili, of course! Since the weather has been somewhat gloomy and chilly, I decided it was time to embrace it and make a huge pot of chili. Doesn't hurt that HH went out of town the morning after I made it - so now I don't have to cook while he's gone! ;-)

Anyway...



And, because, well, dur, you can't have chili without cornbread...


I used my mini pumpkin pan for the muffins and they came out sort of pumpkin-y on top!

Delish!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

It's my mom's birthday today! And not just any birthday... she's turning one half of a century old!!! Crazy - she totally doesn't act 50! See???



Dude. I told you so. And yes, that's also my Grams in the pic too... and this was taken at 10 am one morning. No. I won't explain further. :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!