Pumpkin Season

I haven't posted much lately...at all...we've been busy at work and busy at home, finishing the move and trying to keep up with housework!

I've only used one pumpkin so far, which tells me I am very far behind! Normally I try to have pumpkin everything...bread, soup, lattes...etc.

We did puree a pumpkin, roast the seeds, and use it for soup, in oatmeal, and in homemade pumpkin spice lattes. For the lattes, I heated up coconut milk, added pureed pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and a tiny bit of honey before I added some instant coffee. Not as sugary as Starbucks, but it was still pretty good! I think the coconut milk would even be good on its own like that... We don't eat a lot of bread or even oatmeal anymore, but steel-cut oats with a scoop of pumpkin and some cinnamon is great in the morning and it doesn't need any sugar!

On one of the cooking pages on Facebook I saw where someone had cut up a butternut, parsnips, and apples and seasoned them with olive oil, orange juice & zest, and rosemary. I used lemon instead of orange but I decided we had to try it! I roasted the veggies and apples with bone-in chicken thighs and that was a great dinner. The next night we cooked a tri tip steak with roasted rosemary potatoes and cooked some frozen vegetables (zucchini I think). Those are not normal dinners for us, but we decided we really need to spend the time and cook mostly meat and vegetables a lot more often.

Rosemary is quickly becoming one of my favorite herbs. I've never really used it much before but it is good with a good variety of meat and vegetables, and soups!

Sorry for the lack of pictures...I'll have to get some off of my phone and onto here!