Things cause got slowed downwardly a footling flake for the weekend, together with it's a proficient thing. Sewing fourth dimension is desperately needed. Yesterday I needed to option upward some things from the grocery store, together with thence in that place were some chores to accept assist of when I got home. The annual pots needed watering, together with I was able to harvest the kickoff of the cherry tomatoes. We added those to our chicken Caesar salad final night.
After that, I picked some to a greater extent than cherries from our trees. These are to a greater extent than oft than non Black Tartarians alongside a few Bings thrown in.
There was plenty of low-hanging fruit, together with I could stand upward on proficient erstwhile terra firma to option some other 3 pounds. That makes seven 1/2 pounds total, together with we've in all probability picked simply most one-half of them. We tin solely intend the raccoons cause got taken a goodbye this year. It's been non bad fun getting actual cherries from our ain trees.
It was around 3:00 p.m. past times the fourth dimension I made my means into the sewing room yesterday. Since I hadn't been in that place inward a duo of days, I'd missed the apparent human sacrifice that took identify inward my absence. We tin give cheers Smitty for that gruesome scene. I didn't accept an pictures. You're welcome. Fortunately, Mike was abode together with went to function alongside our industrial carpeting cleaner to build clean upward the mess. Ick.
While he was working at that, I sorted through the crimson scraps inward grooming for making crimson blocks for the Rainbow Jubilee quilt. Only the brightest reds were selected (as opposed to the brick reds) for these blocks, both large scraps...
together with modest ones.
Cutting them into strips was barely nether means when Matthew showed upward early on to cause got dinner alongside us together with to collect some to a greater extent than of his belongings.
So that was the halt of a rather unproductive twenty-four hr menses of sewing, but it was fun spending the afternoon alongside Matthew. He moved into his novel identify the kickoff of June, together with he seems happy every bit a clam there. It's a non bad place together with he has some roommates he enjoys. Also, he's hoping he has a novel chore at a place that volition allow him to ride his wheel to work. He's been inward a holding designing since final September, together with thence it's real dainty to run into him thence content inward his novel digs.
While he was here, I switched out the hummingbird feeders for build clean ones. Along the way, I admired the royal hydrangea. It's covered inward flowers now.
They are a deep purple.
Also, I noticed the hens together with chicks (sempervivum, if y'all postulate the snotty botanical name) are putting upward a few bloom stalks. They brand the most strange footling Dr. Seuss flowers.
They were a housewarming gift from many years ago, together with they've thrived inward the identify where nosotros planted them.
This morn when nosotros laid gratis the cats, nosotros noticed this visitor to our plain simply on the other side of the vegetable garden. I cause got an sentiment she's the i responsible for eating the love apple tree plant.
She seemed unafraid together with curious most us together with the kitties.
While Matthew was hither yesterday, nosotros went through the freezers together with pulled out some nutrient he left behind. While nosotros were there, I works life a cup-sized component subdivision of roasted, pureed, together with frozen pumpkin left over from a previous year's CSA share. It seemed a proficient fourth dimension to endeavor these Pumpkin Cream Muffins, which are, surprisingly, on our diet.
It was a proficient means to usage the pumpkin together with at 210 calories per, i muffin at breakfast won't blow your calorie budget. The diet told us nosotros could cause got i muffin alongside some fruit together with a piece of bacon. We opted for 2 muffins together with a difficult boiled egg left over from the Fourth of July. It was a footling over our calorie budget, but non every bit good bad. Inside, they cause got a dainty footling cream cheese center. It's a footling similar a frosted muffin alongside the frosting on the inside.
When I looked online, I works life several similar recipes, but nil that was just the same, together with thence I'm giving it to y'all here. It's adapted solely slightly to advise bowl sizes.
Pumpkin Cream Muffins
adapted from Cooking Light Diet
Baking spray alongside flour
4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese -- softened
3 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract -- divided
half dozen 3/4 ounces (about 1 1/2 cups) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons solid set down cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon solid set down ginger
3/4 teaspoon solid set down allspice
1/2 teaspoon tabular array salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon solid set down cloves
3/4 loving cup granulated sugar
1/4 loving cup unsalted butter -- softened
2 large eggs
1 loving cup canned pumpkin puree
1/4 loving cup chopped toasted pecans
Preheat oven to 425°F. Place 12 muffin loving cup liners inward muffin cups; coat liners lightly alongside baking spray.
Place cream cheese, powdered sugar, together with 1/4 teaspoon vanilla inward a modest bowl; stir until smooth. Set aside.
Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry out criterion cups; marking alongside a knife. Combine flour together with adjacent seven ingredients (through cloves) inward a medium bowl, stirring alongside a whisk.
Place 1 teaspoon vanilla, granulated sugar, together with butter inward a large bowl; trounce alongside a mixer at medium speed until good combined, most 3 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating good later each addition. Add pumpkin; trounce at depression speed until combined. Add flour mixture; trounce at depression speed 1 infinitesimal or until simply combined.
Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling one-third full. Top each alongside most 2 teaspoons cream cheese mixture; separate remaining batter evenly over cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle nuts evenly over batter. Bake at 425°F for v minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375°F. Bake muffins at 365°F for an additional 10 minutes or until muffins outpouring dorsum when touched lightly inward center. Remove muffins from pan, together with cool on a wire rack. Enjoy alongside non bad gusto!
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After this morning's breakfast, I stitched plenty of the latest Snow Globes block to enable me to movement the hoop to the adjacent position.
Now the residuum is within the boundary of the hoop, together with this shouldn't accept every bit good long to finish.
My cherry pitting station is laid upward together with that's where I'm heading next.
On today's agenda is some Sweet Cherry Lime Jam. I'm giving y'all the link to the recipe there, but I haven't tried this before. I'll permit y'all know how it turns out inward tomorrow's post.
When that's finished, it's going to last sewing, sewing, sewing, together with high time. I needs me some sewing fourth dimension bad.