Relaxing...Productive...Weekend? What is that???

The Holidays are here and there is something happening every weekend, almost every weekday, plus work, plus the everyday stuff, and it was beginning to be to much.  I needed a relaxing weekend to GET STUFF DONE and that is what I did.

I had the house to myself.  So it was pretty quiet, the TV was off most of the time, except for when I was watching Pretty Woman.

I achieved so much and now I can say I feel ready to take on all of our festivities.

Here are all of the items I checked off my To-Do List:

1. Went through my childhood boxes, consolidated 3 big tubs into one small shoe box of the best pictures. 

2. Dropped clothes, books, and toys off at the Good Will. 

3. Cleaned out my closet and rearranged my clothes in my drawer like they did here.

4. Made Home-Made Sausage and breakfast casserole for the week.

5. Ate Trade Joe's Joe-Joes and watched Pretty Woman.

6. Made Spaghetti Squash and Tomato sauce for the week. 

7. Cleaned my stove.  I placed the burners in ammonia.   I tried the all natural salt, vinegar, and baking soda for the stove top, but that didn't seem to work great, so I used 409 after.  It still isn't as clean as I would like on my main burner, but I will try again soon.  I need more vinegar and baking soda.

Ta da...

8. Cleaned my bath tub with Borax.  (The marks on the bottom are from a previous tenant and won't budge, any ideas?)

9. Made grain-free Pumpkin Pancakes and Apple Butter from Apple Hill.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for my life, my family, my friends, my boyfriend, my job, the food in front of us and the Craig sweet tooth still going strong and creative this Thanksgiving... I present to you Pum-ple Cake by Lauren and Kayla!

Leftover Remix: Pumpkin Pie

By the time dessert was served we were sooooo full at Friendsgiving, that barely any of the pumpkin pie was ate.  This was great because it gave me a lot of pie to work with.  I thought the combination of the pumpkin pie filling, whip cream and crust blended with eggs would be a great baked french toast mixture.  So I gave it a try and I would say it was quite the success.   

Pumpkin Pie Baked French Toast

1. Preheat the oven to 350.  

2. Take the leftover Pumpkin Pie and blend it in the bender until smooth. 

3. Chop up bread. 

4. Crack eggs to add to the blender (I do it in a separate bowl, just incase you loose a shell)

5. Add eggs to blender and keep on low speed just to evenly blend with the pumpkin pie puree. 

6. Pour the egg and pumpkin pie mixture over the bread.  Bake at 350 for 40 min. 

7. Serve and eat.  I wish I had extra whip cream to top it off with but I blended it with the pumpkin pie, but you can also top with syrup.  

Please note I did not include measurements because leftovers vary.  For this recipe I used 2/3 of the pumpkin pie.