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Roast Chicken.

Another perfect fall day and delicious fall cooking.

 We are fortunate enough to have a local turkey farm that sells farm fresh whole chickens as well as turkeys and everything you can think of made from turkey. Turkey "ham" salad, turkey bacon, turkey pepperoni and turkey sausage and more. Pounds Turkey Farm has a wide variety of Turkey items as well as other local farm raised beef and more. 

 On the menu today is roast chicken. I have found so many different recipes on Pinterest and other foodie blogs that I follow but today I was just looking for a plain old roast chicken. This recipe fit that description, not to say that it was plain just that it was nice and simple and I had all the ingredients on hand. 

 I am loving sweet potatoes lately so along with the side of potatoes, carrots, celery and onions, I cut up a couple sweet potatoes too. Yum. 

 A little time consuming but all of this was super easy and delicious. While I was chopping up all the sweet potatoes and veggies, I decided to chop up the acorn squash my sister had given me from her local CSA farm share and make soup. No recipe here just a throw together soup. It was perfect for the chilly fall day. 

What's cookin' at your house tonight? 

Wednesday.

What is Wednesday like for you? 

 In our little town in Western Pa, the past week has been cloudy and raining. Finally after basically a week of rain, Tuesday brought a little sunshine! A better way to start the day. Sunshine definitely brings a smile to my face. Today, Wednesday, the sun is out there but not quite as prominent as yesterday. 

 Enough about sunshine, although, I could talk about it all day. I was thrilled to find all my new followers on my blog page and my Facebook page. 

Thank you all so much and welcome to my little blog! 

 I have been sharing the latest deals and coupons via my Facebook page recently because I can share them sooner. I tried another new recipe yesterday! I found it on Pinterest of course. 

 You can find the original recipe here. 

 I never have all the ingredients I need on hand even though I always keep fresh fruits and veggies and tried to have a fully stocked pantry, always something I forgot. 

 Ingredients: 

4 sausages (beef or pork)  I used Turkey. 

1 pound potatoes

1/2 pound carrots

1/2 bell pepper

1 large onion

1 fennel bulb I didn't have this so I just skipped it. 

2 garlic cloves

2 tbsp oil

freshly cracked black pepper

1 1/2 tsp Italian herbs

1/2 cup chicken broth 

4 tbsp balsamic vinegar 

For the rest of the directions, check out the original recipe. The step by step colorful pictures are great! Basically you bake all the potatoes/veggies and brown the sausages then add them all together for a bit and bake. 

 My meat and potato loving hubby, loved it! Super easy, basically two pan meal and the best part about it is that once you prepare it, you can clean up the kitchen while it's baking. My favorite type of recipe! 

Sunday Family Dinner & Apple Pies

Sunday Family Dinner & Apple Pie.

I wrote a little last week about how our family loves Sunday family dinner, well, I can't speak for the rest of the family but I love it. With 9 of us 'kids' all together plus spouses and my Gram on Mom's side & Gram & Pap on Dad's side, it is always a full house. Although we aren't all usually home at the same time anymore, there is usually a minimum of 15 of us at the 3 tables in Mom's diningroom. The summer sometimes tends to get a little busy and we don't get together as often as we would like to, but especially fall and winter. Spagetti is on the menu at Mom's house tonight so we will have all the usual salad, bread ect... 

 Since I was off the hook for making supper, I decided it is a great day to make pies! Let me remind you, I have only ever made maybe 3 pies in my lifetime so... I am always reading and researching before I start. Yes, I said researching how to make apple pie. It may sound funny to some but I like to know what I am doing before I start. The last two pies I made were a little different, I made The Pioneer Woman's Flat Apple Pie because I figured it would be perfect for my hubby to take in his lunch! 

 Today I tried a different approach & decided to go for a more traditional pie. I love The Pioneer Woman's Perfect Pie Crust. Now, again, I can't really say it's the best recipe ever when that is pretty much the only recipe I have ever used. As for now, I haven't used a bought pie crust, because I am a big believer of trying to make everything from scratch first and then if I need to save time later, then buy the pre-made stuff. Like I said, I am trying! 

I picked up the apples at a local apple farm. They sell other products as well but they grow all their own apples! I love having an apple farm so close to home. If you are local and haven't heard of Kistaco's, you can check out their website here. I also picked up some of their own Apple Cider for my sister this weekend. So, after 'researching' recipes ect... I decided on a recipe. Well, for me, I can't come up with a recipe on my own but I usually end up looking at two or three recipes and kind of mix and match a little from each. So, I used this and this. 

 I even tried to do a little lattice type crust on top. Again, be easy on me, I have never done this before. Now my new challenge is to make the filling a little thicker.

Feel free to share any tips. Do you have a favorite pie recipe? Feel free to share. If it's not a secret family recipe. 

So yummy.

My almost perfect pie. 

My pie making buddy. She lays on her bed and waits for crumbs. 

Purex Plus Oxi Review & Giveaway **Winners Announced.

Purex Plus Oxi Review & Giveaway.

***The winners are...

Julie & Tiffany Christie 

Congratulations! Please contact me within 48 hours to receive your prize. Thank you for entering. 

Introducing Purex Plus Oxi, a new stain-fighting liquid detergent from Purex. 

I was recently offered a chance to try this new detergent as a Purex Insider. I love to try anything with an extra boost of stain remover & freshness. My favorite thing to wash with a new detergent is towels! I think you can really tell if it adds freshness when you try it on your towels. I tried Purex plus Oxi this past week on a load of towels/washrags ect... and I was impressed! The towels came out soft and smelling fresh. Another success for Purex. 

Purex has kicked off the release of the new plus Oxi with a sweepstakes! Enter to win $1000.00 here. 

 If you would like a chance to try Purex Plus Oxi for yourself, you can enter my giveaway. 

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Follow this link to the Purex sweepstakes and then come back here and let me know you entered! 

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Capturing Memories.

I wouldn't say I am a photographer but I can honestly say photography is a hobby of mine. I am always trying to capture the memory and also the perfect photo. Needless to say, my laptop is full of photos from day to day activities and of course Ginger. Ginger is a chocolate lab mix, she was rescue from a local shelter. She is just like our own child, our four legged child. 

I have a lot of what we call 'playdates' with my niece & nephew and Ginger loves it. She loves to get right in wherever they are and get extra close to whatever they have. The kiddos love her and are always following her around. 

 Last week we decided to carve our pumpkin with the help of our niece M, and Ginger, as usual, wanted to join in too. 

A few other fall memories I have tried to capture. 

Sunday Family Dinner & Pumpkin Dip!

Our family is big on Sunday family dinners. It is a great way for us to get together and chat about the recent events in our lives and even just the normal day to day. This Sunday I decided to have both sides of the family over for dinner, with Chilli on the menu! It was a chilly (haha) and rainy day, the perfect day to cook and bake at home. Hubby made breakfast in the morning then I started the chilli. I love to start it early but let it simmer all day. Chilli is a perfect comfort food for a crowd since it can be left in the crockpot and eaten in shifts. One of the things I love with chilli is cornbread. I found a yummy recipe that says one to two eggs. Why can't it just say exactly how many. Well, as I get the recipe out, I realize that I am one egg short if I go with 2! Since I was doing two batches, I tried the recipe with three eggs. We had a little bit crumbly cornbread. Now on to the snacks...

Crumbly Cornbread. 

Pinterest is a great resource for recipes, it is a great site to search different types or recipes and see what others think of it! Well, if you are like me, you pin too many things that you will never make. My recent goal has been to try one new Pinterest project/recipe/idea each week. 

I can honestly say it has been a fun challenge. So for a snack for our Sunday dinner, this dessert/snack is perfect, so quick and easy but very creative too. I can't take credit for the creativity, you can check out the original post here at Carolina Charm. 

 The only time consuming part of this is carving the pumpkin. I am sure it would be just as good in a bowl but the pumpkin makes it even better! 

My attempt at the Pumpkin Dip! 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

Fall baking. 

I can honestly say I am not much of a cook but I am learning one recipe at a time! With that said, I do love to bake. What I bake isn't always perfect but I love to bake. As a child/teen I loved to bake and decorate cakes for all the family birthdays (with 8 siblings, I think we had a party every month) and parties. I loved it! As I got older I still loved to bake but usually simpler things like cookies, muffins and other desserts. 

 A few weeks ago, while searching for pumpkin recipes,

 I found this Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe and just had to try it. 

Pumpkin and chocolate, what more could a girl ask for? 

Please excuse my photos, I may have forgotten to take a picture before we tested the muffins and tossed most of them in the freezer! Working on better pics a little at a time! 

I also just stumbled on this recipe for Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins on another great blog The Sweeter Side of Mommyhood.  I will definitely be trying these next week! As I feel that it is necessary to try a new pumpkin recipe each week all throughout October & November! Maybe even December too. :-) 

Did you win?

The winners have been announced for my Soft Scrub giveaway...

 Was it you? Find out here. 

I am working on a new giveaway today! Check back tomorrow to find out what it is! 

Think laundry!

Changing leaves

I don't think we could have asked for better weather today and hopefully the upcoming week. It is a gorgeous day with all the changing leaves! I tried to snap a few photos of the beautiful colors of these changing leaves!