The exciting part about going apple picking is coming home and having to come up with different ways to use your apples. The first thing Max and I made was Apple Crisp, no recipe needed because we cheated and bought a pre-made mix ;)
28 October 2011
26 October 2011
Picnic
I finally got to use my new Picnic Basket from The Nantucket Bike Basket Company and my monogrammed picnic plates! It was a beautiful fall day by the river, complete with some Graul's Market snacks and Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, which always makes me feel like a kid again.
21 October 2011
Apple Picking
One of my favorite things to do every fall is to go apple picking. It makes me feel like a kid again, I love the fresh country air and the excitement of coming up with ways to use all of the freshly picked apples. Max and I have gone up to Brown's Orchard in Glen Rock, PA the past two years, it is quite the hike to get up there, but the orchard and family market (we bought the best homemade chocolates this year!) are totally worth the trip.
20 October 2011
More Pumpkin
Even after making the pumpkin cookies I was still craving pumpkin so I decided to make some pumpkin butter. I had never had pumpkin butter before, but all of the recipe's I had looked up included most of the ingredients from pumpkin pie filling, and I LOVE pumpkin pie. I also love the consistency of apple butter, so it seemed like a win-win thing to make. It was very easy, and sooooo delicious. I have been eating it on toast in the morning and even put it between two pumpkin cookies to make my very own version of a fall chipwich!
Ingredients:
1 can (29 oz) pumpkin puree
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup water
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/8 tsp. allspice
03 October 2011
Fall Sweet Treats
Fall, the best season, has officially settled in Maryland. There is one problem though, it has been endlessly raining. In order to cheer up the dreary weather my sister and I decided to make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, and of course set out some of my favorite candy corn :)
The cookies were delicious, we had never made them before, but they turned out to be little bites of pumpkiny goodness, super moist and fluffy.
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
1 tablespoon pumpkin-pie spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, pie spice, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
2. With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar on medium-high speed until smooth; beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Beat in pumpkin puree (mixture may appear curdled). Reduce speed to low, and mix in dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
3. Spoon onto baking sheet. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Cook 12 minutes.
September Playlist
So much for posting in September.. I decided that I was not really a fan of my blog, so how could anyone else be? The month of October is going to focus on a blog revamp, which I am hoping will make this blog more interesting. But for now, here is my September playlist which I listened to on repeat all month long.
1. Lost In Time - Whitely
2. Lost In My Mind - The Head and The Heart
3. Life Magazine - Cold Cave
4. The Life I Keep -Whitely
5. Last Night - The Morning Benders
6. In Love, Not Limbo - Of Oceans
7. Hours - Tycho
8. History Book - Dry The River
9. For 12 - Other Lives
10. Figueroa - Hotels & Highways
11. Faded High - Gayngs
12. Doorways - Radical Fear
13. CPR/Claws Pt. 2 - Typhoon
14. Born - Starfucker
15. Barton Hollow- The Civil Wars
16. Barely Legal - Real Estate
17. Baltimore Bound - Supervisor of the Loveless Average
18. Apathy - Mikal Cronin
19. All of Us - Painted Palms
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