I baked my little heart out and gave my oven a major workout today. I baked a pineapple-apricot cake, two batches of chocolate-and-cashew cookies, a pumpkin roll with cream cheese filling, and a vegetarian pie with lots of fresh vegetables. The pie was for our dinner, and the rest I’m taking to Debbie’s baby shower tomorrow afternoon. I told Helena that I’d make a cake, but I got inspired going through the cookbook and went a bit overboard. I’m sure my family won’t complain, though, if I end up having to bring home leftovers.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, and I also roasted a pumpkin. I got about four cups of pumpkin pur\u00e9e, some of which I used to make the pumpkin roll and the rest of which I popped into the freezer to save for making pumpkin pies next week. I bought four pumpkins this year, and have one left to roast and freeze. I should have plenty for three or four pies and another pumpkin roll or two for Thanksgiving, and a bit left over to make pumpkin pancakes and the like with throughout the year. I’m thinking I might try to make some pumpkin butter (think apple butter only tastier!), too, if I have enough to spare. One of the things I really miss from the States is being able to buy canned pumpkin year-round. While it’s true that fresh pumpkin gives a better flavor, it’s not so widely available here and I don’t have enough freezer space to store more than a few cups. And last year we didn’t get any pumpkins at all up here, so I was reduced to making my Thanksgiving pies from sweet potatoes (not such a sacrifice, all things considered, but still …).<\/p>\n
After all that hard work, I’m ready now to make a cup of tea, put up my feet, and settle in for a cozy night in front of the TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I baked my little heart out and gave my oven a major workout today. I baked a pineapple-apricot cake, two batches of chocolate-and-cashew cookies, a pumpkin roll with cream cheese filling, and a vegetarian pie with lots of fresh vegetables. The pie was for our dinner, and the rest I’m taking to Debbie’s baby shower… Read More Domesticity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}