So, another daily update from us...do I blog too much?? First of all, Sunday dinner was much looked forward to by Jeff and I, we invited our friends Jeremy and Emily over for our favorite Halloween dinner: Dinner in a Pumpkin! Emily made a yummy dessert and we had fun laughing with some of our new friends. The recipe for our annual Halloween Dinner (an Ellsworth tradition) is as follows:
1 small-medium pumpkin
1 small-medium pumpkin1 Chopped Onion
2 Tbsp Oil
2 lbs Ground Beef
2-4 Tbsp Soy Sauce
2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1 4oz can of Sliced Mushrooms
1 can of Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 1/2 Cup Cooked Rice
1 can of Water Chestnuts (sliced)
Put oil in frying pan, saute the onions until tender.
Add meat and brown.
Drain Grease; add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushroms and soup and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add cooked rice and water chestnuts.
Spoon into carved pumpkin.
Place on foil-covered cookie sheet and cook at 350 for approx. 1 hour ( or a little longer) until the pumpkin is cooked.
** Don't forget to scoop out and serve some of the cooked insides of the pumpkin to eat, too!
Holy Yum, Batman!
Today was my day to cook for the dinner co-op, but while my chickey pot pies were in the oven, I got a little crazy and decided to make strawberry freezer jam for my first time. It was easier than spitting, but so fun for me! yeah for homemade jam!
AND...Max has been doing a great job tinkling on the potty every night before his bath. He gets an MnM every time, and gets really excited about it, but isn't interested in pooping (even though he is bribed with new monster trucks) and is not interested in tinkling any other time during the day. Soooo, I tried a new thing tonight, which he certainly enjoyed, much to the dismay of our neighbors. We went potty about 20 minutes sooner than normal, he got his MnM and then, he got to put on Big Boy Undies!!! Isnt' he so cute in them?!? He ran all over the house, hardly able to contain himself, and the new-found freedom! 
Here's Max doing the excited dance with his MnM! What could be better. Then we ran down the sidewalk to go tell baby Corban that he was a big boy, up the stairs to tell Berkleigh and Merrick that he was a big boy (but they stinkin' weren't home), then we saw Kristy and Tom outside, and then Keith, our other neighbor...so now, all of Huntington Beach is in on helping get Max to tinkle on the pot regularly. Don't be alarmed if YOU get the next random visit from a little boy in baseball or Handy Manny BVD's. Soooo cute!!!There was a Random day from us...hope you enjoyed!
Happy Autumn!
8 comments:
No you don't blog to much...do i comment to much?? =) You took like a blogging hiatus so look at it as catching up. I love you AUTUMN JOY!
Thanks for the recipe. I got your blog off of Emily's. I had fun talking with you the other night. We just got through the potty training with Carter. Same Here: An M&M for each time. We definitely should get together. Carter got more interested in potty training when he hung out with a boy a little older than him for a day. Seriously, it works charms. Because a mother's suggestion doesn't do it. So..there's one reason why we should hang out! At least we can get to know each other through our blogs.
yummy yummy DIP!!!! i want some more!! i look forward to that meal every year! so thanks for sharing with us. we had fun times with you guys.
I am coveting your freezer jam... Mmm!
Do you sleep? You never cease to amaze me with how much you get done in a day all the while toilet training a 2 year old! Child #2 will be a breeze for you! I miss you!
JAM?? You do JAM???
So dang CUTE! Buddy won't go #2 on the potty, either! It's makin' me crazy! Love the big boy undies!
I have been dieing to make the pumpkin recipe since you aired it! And we finally did it tonight...and OMG it was SO good! We all loved it but my 10 month old devoured it! We'll put up pictures on our blog too but it was mm-mm good! Thanks for sharing!!
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