October 02, 2020

Fall flavors: Sampler of six for the season

October 02, 2020/ Lisa Carpenter

Apples and pumpkin, pumpkin and apples. The top two flavors of fall.

As fall is my favorite season and baking one of my favorite pastimes, it’s fairly easy to believe I would have a few recipes related to apples and pumpkin in my repertoire.

That I do!

September 28, 2016

From the archives: Four for fall

September 28, 2016/ Lisa Carpenter

Having blogged for more than seven years, I have oodles of goodies stored away in the Grandma's Briefs archive, goodies that rarely see the light of day because they go way, way back. At least seven years or so.

Today seems a perfect day to pull out some of those well-seasoned posts, a few of my favorite fall-themed features you just might have missed.

fall recipes and fun

14 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT OCTOBER

My shortlisted October loves... in no particular order:

1. The sun has shifted south. Whereas summer...

November 11, 2010

Oh do you know the pumpkin grandma?

November 11, 2010/ Lisa Carpenter

Last Saturday, I decided to make use of the pumpkins I purchased for carving, then never got around to carving.

So this is what I did:

Cut.

Clean.

Bake.Baked!Scrape ... into a food processor.Process.Wonder if it's supposed to look like applesauce. Check the recipe ... Yes, it's supposed to look like applesauce.End up with a HUGE bowl of pumpkin puree.An amount equal to this many cans!Bag it ... and line up for the pumpkin can-can, Rockette style.

"Take us to your leader!"Use one bag to make one of these. Yum!Use the innards to make these: Sweet-n-Salty Pumpkin Seeds.There you have it! That's how I spent 90 percent of my day last Saturday. But it was worth it.