Menu Monday

It's another semi-uneventful week in the Brown household. I think I got most of my ingredients this week though.

Mon: Baked Potato Soup

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It's supposed to get cold and rainy here (again) starting tonight, so I thought this might be good to make. It's also going to be dark when we get home (thanks daylight savings time) so it will feel even colder and nastier.

Tues: Easy Corndogs

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I love hot dogs and any incarnation of them (corn dogs, beanie weenies, all that gross stuff). As gross as it sounds, they are one of my favorite foods. I might make some potato wedges to go with this, but I'll probably just be lazy and we'll just have the corn dogs.

Wed: Ham Steaks with Cheesy Broccoli Mashed Potatoes

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I've been wanting to make these for a while, but I always get side tracked when planning my meals and normally only plan for main dishes. My sides and salads Pinterest board has been severely neglected for a while. These look pretty easy and like they'd be a healthier option than mashed potatoes.

Thurs: Freezer food

We still have lots of random bits of things leftover in our freezer. KB will be deer hunting for the next 2 weeks, so I've got to make some room before there's deer everywhere.

Bonus time!

Pumpkin Spice White Hot Chocolate

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I was planning on making this on Saturday, but it ended up being kind of warm here that day. We also worked outside in the yard all day, so by the time we got inside the last thing I wanted was a really hot cup of hot chocolate. Hopefully I can pull it together enough this week to make it.

Dutch Apple Pie

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KB's work Thanksgiving is on Thursday. He signed me up for a cake. I don't really bake cakes. I'm going to make a pie and everyone is just going to deal. We still have lots of apple leftover from my in-laws, so hopefully I can use them up in this. I'll probably grate the apples instead of chopping them. I've done that before and I like it better that way.

What will you be cooking/eating this week???

Pinteresting Wednesday

It's time for another Pinteresting Wednesday post.  Link up with The Vintage Apple to play along.

Here are my favorite Pins of the week:

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What are your favorite Pins this week???

Saturday Stuff

It's been a busy Saturday....

Obviously this isn't me....because I'm not a dude.  I'm also not an Olympic caliber skeet shooter, but I did get some practice in today.  I never shot the target....at all.  Even when the target was a piece of cardboard and I was shooting a .22 pistol from 10 feet away.  KB's family always shoots guns the afternoon after Thanksgiving dinner, so I think KB is just trying to make me a little better so we have a chance of beating his brother and his girlfriend this year.

Made my own pumpkin spice coffee creamer from here.

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I also made some pumpkin spice syrup, but I forgot to take a picture of it.

I also made these pumpkin cinnamon rolls from Meg at Henning Love.  They are oh so delicioso.

I combined everything into a nice little snack for KB.  He said everything was delicious.  It took me all day to make everything, so he is a very smart boy for lying to me if it wasn't.

Thoughts on a Thursday

It's time for Thoughts on a Thursday!

Link up with Carolyn (on her honeymoon!) to play along.

• I pretty much love all MTV shows.  True Life, 16 & Pregnant, The Challenge, I Used to Be Fat, Made ... you could put pretty much anything into an MTV show and I will watch it, but I HATE the new Real World.  The people are so dumb and annoying.  Frank need to get over it, Nate is a douche, Zack is annoying, and the weird singer girl is boring.  I'll have another Teen Mom rerun please.

• I'm planning a big clean up weekend at our house.  I've been gone most of the past month so our house is definitely a little dingy.  I'm looking up some homemade cleaning recipes and plan on stopping by Target on my way home to get some Borax and Washing Soda.

• I found out I have to work late tomorrow to get some ads through legal review.  Seriously....working late on a Friday.....dealing with lawyers on a Friday......I'm not looking forward to it.

• I'm also planning on cooking quite a bit this weekend.  I'll be making the following:

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What are your Thoughts on a Thursday?

Pinteresting Wednesday

It's another Pinteresting Wednesday.

Here's some of my favorite Pins of the week!

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What are you Pinning this week?

Halloween Aftermath....

Last year we had a whopping 4 trick or treaters.  True it was raining and cold.  This year I only bought one bag of candy because last year I was stuck with a ton.

This year we had over 30.  We ran out of candy and towards the end I just stopped opening the door.  Needless to say though, my mother in law had over 400 little goblins.....but she was prepared.  Also, my pumpkin that I carved for KB's mom won as the best decorated!

It looked like this....

Note: This isn't actually mine, but it's the stencil that I drew off of onto the pumpkin from UltimateStencils.com.

Mine had a web etched into it so it looked like the whole pumpkin was a web.  I didn't have a camera and it took me a lot longer than expected, so I didn't even really think about taking a picture.

How was your Halloween?

Pumpkin Practice

I found this weird little guy at the grocery store this weekend and decided that I'd practice my jack-o-lantern skills.

 He had a weird little orange spot on his side.

 I got these wood carving tools last year to work on my pumpkins.  They were only a couple of dollars at Lowe's.

 I drew some crazy squigglies with a silver sharpie.  They ended up coming off after I started carving, so I ended up just free handing everything.

 Here he is! 

I put him outside next to our other pumpkins and the sun actually bleached the orange parts and made them a white color...even cooler.