Pumpkin Spice Muffins......

yummm..........When we visited Toronto, Canada, last October it was pumpkin spice muffin season at Tim Hortons and I have been thinking about making some ever since. Yesterday I went searching on line and found this recipe from Canadian Living Magazine. Had to make my own pumpkin puree because it doesn't seem to be available in Australia, but that was easy - just cut up a butternut into large pieces, scrape out the strings and seeds, bake in a moderate oven for about 45 minutes to an hour, then cut off the skin and puree the flesh. We don't get the spherical bright orange pumpkins here so I thought butternut would be a good substitute.

To make a long story short, after lunch today I made the muffins, they turned out well, we have already tried them fresh out of the oven. They're a little different to Tim's recipe but not bad, if I do say so myself. I didn't make the maple cream cheese spread either, and I used pecans (because I had some) instead of walnuts (because I had none), a whole pecan half on each muffin.

Geez the election at the weekend was much ado about nothing, we still don't know who won......don't know who our government will be for the next few years.......so long as the bloke who leads one of the parties doesn't become prime minister, he has to be the scariest bloke ever in my opinion. For what it's worth. I don't care if his wife thinks he is lovely and his daughters love him and he helps little old ladies across the road, he still scares the living daylights out of me.

No pics today because the camera battery needs to be charged, but they will come in due course. You know what they say, if it's worth having it's worth waiting for. I could pop out and take a photo of the tiny pink and white wild flowers that are slowly appearing in the reserve, and the lovely wattle trees flowering just up the hill, but it's raining, cold and misty. So I won't. You wouldn't want me to get cold and wet, would you?

"How to reprove.

Parents should never check expressions of tenderness in their children, nor humiliate them before others. This will not only cause suffering to little sensitive hearts, but will tend to harden them. Reproof, if needed, should be administered to each child singly and alone."

Now I am off to make Big Decisions about cutting fabric. Have a wonderful week!

Jennifer