The beautiful fall weather is here
in force and the nights are getting chilly. I got tired of
watching the forecast and worrying about frost alerts, so I
decided to harvest the garden yesterday. We only had tomatoes
and carrots left anyway. The kids both helped and got very
dirty. When we came inside Lex was super excited to eat a
carrot, but I insisted on washing the kids first, then the
carrots. After bath I scrubbed up a few carrots and Lex at 2
huge carrots all by himself! He put a sizable dent in a 3rd,
but couldn’t finish it. I think he ate enough servings of
carrot to make up for all the servings of veggies he’s refused
in the past :) Today he ate two more! Eve ate a whole carrot
that first night too. It took her awhile, but she did it! They
sure do love the garden. Next year’s will be bigger and
better!

I got a scalloped
bread tube from the Pampered Chef Outlet and we tried
making some bread. The Use & Care card comes with a
recipe which uses store-bought “dough in a tube” but I thought
it would be fun to try from scratch. Lex loves the bread
machine, so we got that out and made some tasty Italian
seasoned bread. Here is what happened when I baked it in the
bread tube…

The bread came out pretty tasty
though and I can see how it would be cool with some practice
(and the proper amount of bread dough!) Eve loves them and
calls them cookies. I’ll confess to eating a few myself
:)