Taste of Fall

fall-recipes

Break out the butter and make some sweets to celebrate fall.  Here are some recipes that I posted last year.  It seems that my interest in cooking is renewed as the seasons change.  And not to worry-we’ll soon be wearing bulky sweaters to hide our love of fall comfort food!

Triple Apple Muffins

Pumpkin Pound Cake

Pumpkin Cheesecake (this one’s my favorite)

Here are some other fall recipes:

Pasta with Butternut Squash, Sage and Pine Nuts from Apartment Therapy.

Spiced Pumpkin, Lentil and Goat Cheese Salad from Epicurious.

Cranberry and Pear Chutney from The Perfect Pantry.

Spicy Sweet Potato Fries from Kalyn’s Kitchen.

Vegetarian Chili from Herbivoracious.

Fall Harvest Desserts from Martha Stewart.

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Filling from Vegan YumYum.

And check out this post from Chow on Cooking with Fall Ingredients.

Etsy Finds Friday

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Set of 4 Tumblers made from recycled bottles, $38 from Rewined Recycled Glassware.

Pleated Bag, $39 from Kinies.

Gold-filled stacking ring set, $60 from tinahdee.

the girl, her goose, and her goat, embroidered art, $75 from Mary’s Granddaughter.

Japanese cotton/linen embroidered fabric, $8.75 from cottonblue.

Wavy Pleats Clutch, $44 from yorktown road.

Textile Necklace no.445, $160 from kjoo.

Chocolate Buttons Baby Shoes, $18 from DesignCreateEnjoy.

Where the Wild Things Are felt crown, $25 from The Rice Babies.

Ice Cream Parlour

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It’s play dough!  I made some homemade play dough with my four-year-old today from this recipe.  We even added some iridescent glitter and fragrance to it.  Even though my daughter knew it wasn’t real, when she first saw it scooped into the tea cup she asked if she could eat some.  I know, tempting.  Luckily we had some actual ice cream in the freezer.  So we enjoyed pretend eating and playing ice cream parlour.

I think this would be a fun craft for an ice cream themed birthday party (for children old enough to know not to eat it).  You could make plain play dough and have the children add color and fragrance to make their own flavor, then you could scoop it into a jar for them to take home.  Oh, and you could make little labels for the jars.  Could be really cute.