One of my goals this
month was completing King Arthur Flour’s October Bake-along Challenge:Whole-Grain Bread.
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After
assembling all my tools and necessary ingredients, I got to work. It really was
not at all hard to make this bread.
The challenge also
fulfills my pledge to bake and share with someone in my community as part of
Bake for Good Month. For every pledge made in October, King Arthur Flour will
donate to Feeding America to fight domestic hunger.
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After cooling, my nutritious
bread offering went next door to my very pregnant neighbor.
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A Halloween
cross-stitch project finished early this morning is now added to my October
decorations. I love this month—it does seem to me to be a magic-filled month.
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My new Halloween
decoration is NeedleWorkPress' "Halloween Time". I ordered everything
I needed from 123Stitch.com.
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The project is
stitched on Weeks Dye Works 30-ct Grasshopper linen using one thread over one
thread. Embroidery threads used are Gentle Arts Sampler Thread, Weeks Dye
Works, and a Kreinik metallic for the numbers.
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The finished piece
fits inside Tim Holtz's Idea-ology assemblage clock. There is also a “Christmas Time” piece which
came out at the end of September which I’ve got in the line-up to stitch. It can replace the Halloween work. As "times" change, I can store each piece inside the clock so nothing gets lost.
In addition to today
being Autumn Equinox, it is also the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins!
To celebrate, I participated in the Hobbit Day 5K. September is also World
Alzheimer’s Month. As I honor hobbits, part of my race fee goes to the Cure
Alzheimer’s Fund where 100% of donations goes directly to research towards a
cure for Alzheimer’s.
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Next up was King
Arthur Flour’s Monthly Bake-along Challenge. The recipe this month is
Inside-Out Pumpkin Muffins.
There’s ingredient (boiled
cider) that needed to be made ahead of time as it takes a few hours, so I did
this step last weekend in preparation for today’s baking effort. Here is a
recipe card I made using "The Washington Post’s" recipe.
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I could have skipped
the boiled cider ingredient, but if I’m going to the trouble to participate in
a challenge of any sort, then I try to do so as authentically as possible.
The finished results were
photographed by looking down the top of the Mason jar where I let it cool
before storing in the fridge. The picture reminds me of the mosquito in the
amber depicted in the Jurassic Park
movie.
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The rest of the recipe was pretty simple and did not take long at all to make and assemble. Here is how it looked coming out of the oven.
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These yummy muffins
are perfect for saying hello, autumn!
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I wish you happy
autumnal days full of hobbits and yummy muffins.
Today is the last day
of summer. It's hard to really see a transition to fall from summer in Florida,
but we gave it a go today. I made Key Lime Pies in Mason Jars—here is the
recipe link.
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After tucking the
treats in the fridge for later, my husband and I wandered over to the beach to
say goodbye to summer. Living on the Gulf coast in the Florida panhandle, the
water has brilliant days we call Emerald Days. Today’s water was gorgeous.
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While we won't really see any cold weather until around Halloween, we still try to celebrate the seasons in our own beachy-kind of way. Goodbye, Summer!
The National DayCalendar says today is a bunch
of celebratory days, but I’m honoring National Constitution and Citizenship Day
as well as National Apple Dumpling Day.
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I made apple
dumplings using King Arthur Flour’s recipe. Here they are fresh out of the oven.
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The napkin is one of
a set I made years ago to go with a quilt throw for picnics. My homemade
vanilla bean ice cream goes perfectly with the dumplings. Here’s to standing up
and honoring our citizenship and our Constitution!
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