31 Days of Savoring Home: Day 21 Hanging on to Fall!

Posted by on Oct 21, 2012 in 31 Days of Savoring Home, Seasonal | 0 comments

Hi folks, Hope you are all having a restful Sunday. It’s pumpkin carving night in these parts (ie our home). We are having friends over, carving pumpkins, roasting the seeds, simmering a pot of that spectacular Pumpkin Barley Chipotle Soup with Chicken from Edie, snacking on Aunt Hilda’s popcorn cake and enjoying friends and all that good stuff. Basically holding onto fall and eeeetching out every last bit of it’s glory. Have I shared that recipe with you yet for Miss Hilda’s cake?! Oh my, you need it! Here are a few pictures from our week followed by that yummy recipe!

Here are a few pictures from our week that make me smile!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

brothers in training

 

 

 

 

 

 

cousins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miss Hilda’s Popcorn Cake (from Emeril’s momma)

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup plus 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
  • 4 quarts (16 cups) plain, unsalted, unbuttered popped popcorn
  • 2 cups M&M candies
  • 1 cup lightly salted cocktail peanuts
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
  • 1 pound marshmallows (mini or regular)

Instructions

Grease a large tube or Bundt cake pan with 2 teaspoons of the oil. Set aside.

In a large bowl, mix the popped corn with the M&Ms and the peanuts and set aside.

In a medium saucepan, melt the butter, the remaining 1/4 cup vegetable oil, and the marshmallows over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. When melted, use oven mitts or pot holders to remove saucepan from heat and pour marshmallows over the popcorn mixture. Stir to combine.

Spoon mixture into the prepared cake pan. Using your hands or the back of a spoon, press firmly so that the mixture is compacted.

Cover with aluminum foil to keep moist. Let sit for about 3 to 4 hours, or until firm and set.

To serve, invert the cake pan onto a large plate or platter. Shake gently to release the cake. Serve at room temperature.

YIELD: 1 cake, serving 12 to 16

 

I’ll be back on here tomorrow to share my friend Rebecca’s farmhouse!! So excited that she is willing to share. Y’all are going to love it! Everybody write her a comment begging for a B&B out there!

 

 


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31 Days for Savoring Home: Day 20 Done with this mess!

Posted by on Oct 20, 2012 in 31 Days of Savoring Home, House and Home | 1 comment

The before pictures don’t do this place justice, well except for the laundry room pictures. The laundry room was somehow used as a multipurpose room with a small kitchen in it, one that NEVER saw a sponge or Clorox. Seriously, not sure how we have continued doing laundry in there but the washer and dryer corner was seemingly unused compared to the other parts. Today we are dealing with the  mess and redoing the whole space. I can’t say I’m savoring it yet. In the end I hope it’s a cheery mud room that serves our family as we come in from days loaded with backpacks, bags, shoes, socks, etc. We currently have piles building around our entryway of shoes, etc and with a split foyer layout that means the mess in when you walk in the front door. I bought some cabinets at the Habitat for Humanity Restore (great place!!!) that we plan on putting up to act as our backup storage for every other area of the house.

So wish us luck, I am learning that part of savoring something is cleaning up the mess and clear the cobwebs. Here are some before pics…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enough ignoring this mess!  Hoping to bring you some after pictures shortly!

ps- happy birthday to my little brother! while we paint today my mom is cooking him a Thai feast!! The smell of paint just won’t compare!! :)


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