Pumpkin Head

Thursday nights. I look forward to them every week. Unfortunately, we have not been able to enjoy our food fun fests the past 2 weeks due to the Wine Bonanza and my sickness last week that kept me out of work for 3 days. 

My favorite season is upon us and I wanted to make a dish that matched the beautiful scenery. The dish I chose was spicy fall stew baked in a pumpkin with poblano-cucumber salsa. Mel said it is the best veggie dish that I have made but Kenny still liked the chick pea dish I made.  

I made the stew then baked it in the pumpkin

yummy!

Orange, yellow, red and green; just like nature!

Mel made my number 3 favorite dessert tonight.  She made an apple cake with homemade cream cheese dressing. It had the consistency of carrot cake but had big chunks of apples.  It was wonderful!  No wine tonight, I'm detoxing for the race and Mel isn't feeling good. I guess Kenny didn't want to drink alone. 

Matt enjoyed dinner so much it sent him into a coma and he slept in the recliner for 2 hours after dinner.  Glad you liked it babe!

We are heading to DC on Saturday to pick up our race packets then to Arlington to stay with Chris and Sarah in their deluxe apartment. Sunday morning is the race. I'm looking forward to it; however, I'm not looking forward to how sore I'm going to be.

Monday is book club. We are going out to Sarah's cabin for wine, great conversation and possible hot tubbing.  Can't wait.  Just hope we will be able to talk about something other than politics. Doubt it.