Pumpkin Carving Time

My husband and I carved our pumpkins today.  We let our dog Ruby carve one too.  She chose to do a self portrait.

Next year we grow our own pumpkins!

Holy Jalapeno!

Now that's a lot of jalapenos.  Any ideas on what I should do with them?

FREEZE WARNING

We got our first freeze warning of the fall season.

Time to bring the lemon tree inside.

Garden Journal

 So I was looking at my notes on my garden from this past season and I thought to myself there needs to be a better way.  I pulled out my laptop and began creating pages to organize my notes.  I printed it out, created a cute cover and headed over to my local office supply store.  There I had all my pages spiral bounded.  

I thought other gardeners would like a journal like this so I'm making some to sell on Etsy.

From now until December 25, 2012 I'm offering 20% off to my readers.  Just enter code myblog.

Fall is here!

I made my first autumn dish of the season.

acorn squash

I cut an acorn squash in half and cooked it cut side down in a 350º oven for 30 minutes.  Then I turned the squash over and added a pat of butter, a sprinkle of cinnamon and about a teaspoon of brown sugar.  I finished cooking it cut side up for another 20 minutes in the oven.

Delicious!  This was a big hit in my house.

Hydrating everyone!

Water flowers...check.

Water dog...check.

Salsa Verde...Yumm

Do you every wonder what to do with all those unripe green tomatoes?  How about making some salsa verde.  I used to think you need tomatillos but you don't.  Green tomatoes work just fine.

Check out this recipe for salsa verde I found.  I used 4 jalapeno peppers.  It wasn't spicy enough for me.  Next time I might use 8.