Merry Christmas and Christmas Bread...

With such a busy season in full swing, I am going to say Merry Christmas now and return to blogging after Christmas. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and are able to spend time with family and friends.
I will return after Christmas with new blog posts and fun things to share. I have some fun new ideas to share and posts about our homeschool and frugal living. Stay tuned...


Before I go, I want to leave you with one of our favorite holiday treats.

Pumpkin Pie Bread
-makes to bread loafs-

3 and 1/2 cups flour  (can be replaced with gluten free flour, and still taste great)
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoons baking powder
3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (recipe below)
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
4 eggs, beaten
1 15 oz can pumpkin
1/2 cup water

Pre-heat oven to *350, grease 2 bread loaf pans

In medium bowl, swift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin spice
In large bowl, beat together sugar, oil, egg, and pumpkin. Slowly add in flour mixture and water.
Mix until well blended with no lumps.

Pour into loaf pans and bake for 60-70 minutes.


Pumpkin Pie Spice

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

Mix and store in air tight container. 

Ready for fall!

I have never been one to enjoy the hot weather. This fair skin, red-head, does not do well in the heat! Not-At-All! I do believe I was never intended to live where the temps, at any point, make it above *80! Nope, not me! I think I would do quite well in, say, Alaska, Greenland, maybe Iceland!  Ok, well maybe not somewhere quite so cold, but I could definitely handle cooler temps year round! Unfortunately the rest of my little family enjoys the warmer weather.  

The last few days have been fairly hot, for Colorado, and have been sitting in the high 90's. Since we live out on the plains (desert like if you ask me) it gets pretty warm. And with very few trees to help shade the house we basically bake for much of the summer. 

With my patience of the heat just about gone, I have been thinking of fall quite often. Fall is my favorite time of year! I love having the windows open and feeling that cool crisp air blowing through the house. And I love being able to play outside with the kiddos until sundown and not burning up in the sun or being eaten up by swarms of Mosquitos. 

With the excitement of fall inching closer and closer, I have been thinking about and craving pumpkin bread. I decided that tonight instead of waiting for fall, we were going to make some pumpkin bread. So even as we heated up the already warm house with the baking of bread, it is a welcome sweet smell. Now, we are going to enjoy our fresh hot pumpkin bread...in front of the air conditioner. 

 

Who else is ready for fall? 

What is your favorite season and why?