Happy happy harvest time!!

WOW~!~ the colors outside are just truly breathtaking!! LOVE IT!! As yall know Fall is my #1 favo time of the year!! well I love summer and spring is just absolutely stunning and the snow oh my the snow is gorgeous too!! LOL but fall is my cup of tea!!  So I decided to "farmgirl bling" up some of my shortbread cookies with orange and white colors and filled them with a chocolate ganache filling!!

And since my boys like fall to I did up some of their treats fallish for them!!  I am taking some to market so the boys will have some spending $$$$$ to buy stuff at petco!!  LOL they love goin in and pickin out new toys! 

My bluebery muffins werent exempt from my "bling:" either they recieved a nice drizzel of lemon glaze and the red raspberry muffins got the same treatment. 

Here are some pics on my way home one night last week.  The leaves have been blowin off the trees the last few days so they are leavin us quickly.  The weather though has been exceptional for october.  You know hubby and I got married in late october and I insisted on gettin hitched  outisde at my parents in the orchard that day was just perfect!! 82 degrees outside so noone had to wear jackets or mittens either!  We rented a big canopy, had cornstalks in bundles tied all around, fall leaves hangin with sunflowers and red gingham bows around (my favo red gingham and denim) the aisles were straw bales, fall colored mums everywhere, our unity candle sat on a bed of fall leaves ontop of an old rusty milk can we had on our porch, the alter was wood my hubby made an outline in the shape of a barn, complete with raffia and field corn bundles.  My mom and I saved old metal cans, from like veggies and tied a denim strip around the middle with a bow of red gingham and filled them with cut mums in them for the reception tables.  And i was able to buy red gingham fabric table cloths to go on each table.  In fact I use those table cloths now at market for my tables.  LOL just reminiscing bout that day as we are approaching our 10 year anniversary next week.  October 21!  Cant believe it already!! LOVE ya babe!!!

So another reason i Love fall!! 

Better run and get things packaged up for the last South Haven farmers market of the season is tomorrow!!  Well for most of the farmers Young Earth Farm and I are gonna be goin thurs afternoons november thru april in the hardware parking lot!! email me for more info if ya like!!

Have a blessed evening yall!!

HUGS

Darlene

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Pumpkin Bread Pudding and more day

Ok so today was a vey productive day at the kitchen!!!  I made a recipe up for pumpin bread pudding with a cinnamon sauce and oh my goodness gracious!!! WHAT a yummy treat!! Love the texture, the richness and the yummy flavor!!  This will surely be made on wed for the thurs markets!!

A pumpkin head doll I made.  I love painting their faces!!

I cut up some egg bread we had in the freezer, mixed with eggs, cream and some pumpkin puree along with pumpkin pie spices, baked until golden.

A simple white cinnamon sauce was drizzeled ontop of each.

 the end was cinnamon sugar sprinlked ontop.

Gingersnap shortbread triangles.  These are super yummy shortbread cokies!!

Each one got a little maple leaf imprint

and sugar sprinkled ontop. 

My little greeters at the farmstand!

When you pull in the driveway the "girls" come to meet ya!!  (I think they all learned this from someone that works at walmart!!)

Some fall pics around the farmstand!



one of my pumpkin head dolls I made



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Fall baking

I brought out the cookie press the other day and decided to make some fun fall cookies

These almond butter ribbons were good but especially good dipped in chocolate and sprinlked with a bit of fall jimmies.

Some streusel topped apple muffins.   I always cut up asst apples when baking with them  sautee just a few minutes in butter and cinnamon then  add  to the ingredients.   

Cranberry orange muffins super yummo!  And I added a lemon glaze for my "farmgirl bling"~~

Here are the pumpkin cranberry muffins with their touch of "farmgirl bling"!!

Here are the butter ribbon cookies dressed for fall!

I added some orange food paste coloring to the shortbread dough for the pumpkin spice cookies. 

Arent they just the cutest??

Fred, a tom cat someone dumped off here in feb.  He is just a doll and we are happy to have him be part of our family!  He just doesnt like his pic taken he kept looking away from me or down.  silly cat!!~

PRINCE, he is our only male peacock and just gorgeous I love his coloring and he really has gotten to be quite friendly.  He will take food from your hand and come to ya when you call him.

Ms Rosie May (sorry I just cant get her pic turned) She is a sweetie pie!

Beau, he also is a doll.

Boy I dont like the new format on blogger for uploading pics!! URGG~~~~ this stinks!!  I had all my pics placed in order and they have now moved around and it flipped a couple and I cannot get them turned around!!!  I will have to play around with them later.   I am off to the kitchen we are making some baguette bread and a few cakes and maybe some cookie dough!! 

I will also take some pics of my farmstand, it was decorated for the fall tour this weekend.

 Blue Coast Artist fall tour is so much fun and we enjoy meeting new friends!!

Have a blessed fall monday yall!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Market tomorrow~

WHAT a beautiful fall day here in sw michigan! The leaves are just starting to show color and so so pretty!! it was 72 outside and just gorgeous! however it should start cooling down they say and possible frost this weekend!! yuk! so not ready for all that yet!! we havent got any wood put up for winter yet and need to close up the greenhouse and then blow all the leaves around the yard when they fall, and disc up the gardens and .................. well lots to do to get ready for snow!!  Well for some strange reason I am not able to upload pics!???&()*()&(*&(*)* WHY??  URGGGGGGG!!
Ok so I will try again later for pics SORRY!


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Peach upside down cake, pickles and muffin day

WHEW!! what a busy day~
  I am hoping the weathermen are wrong about tomorrow!!  I baked alot for market and really dont want it to get all soggy and me too!!  They were calling for more storms and windy and rain in am but you just never know here in MI!! fingers crossed!! I can handle some rain but it really chases the customers away and can be quite miserable~!  So heres a peek at my pickles I got done yesterday.  I love the way the polish ones look in the jars with all the dill and red peppers!  

I found this great gingham paper at Hobby Lobby (my favo store) I am there quite regularly and dont know if I mentioned or not but have been in their scrappin magazine a couple of times now!!  gee gotta work on a valentines day project for the 2011first quarter  magazine now!  Anyway I was so excited as they were having their paper sale so I stocked up on all the ginghams I could~!~ it came in red, green, yellow, blue, black, and orange!~! my bins are so full of papers but hey a scrappin gal can NEVER NEVER NEVER have enough papers!! HUH!~! LOL

Ok so here is an awesome new favo of mine "peach upside down cake" with  my own personal changes made to a perfect Martha Stewart cake recipe.

flipped over to reveal the beautiful peach slices along the top of cake!~  I will scale this down to make one cake for yall and post that recipe.Lots of muffins today!! These are my crunchy oat topped banana muffins, with or without nuts. Another favo for sure~ pumpkin cranberry muffins!! I was so wanting to add some of my 'farmgirl bling" to them but resisted temptation!!  gotta have some healthy not calorie filled goodies~~ somewhat healthy anyway!  Ok OK OK just as I packaged the muffins up I added just a bit of my "bling" just a dusting of powderd sugar and that made them POP~~ perfect touch~  So I also got the pumpkin spice bread done, some loaded carrot muffins, some gingersnap cookies, lavander shortbread cookies, some banana bread, my cranberry lemon pecan sandwich cookies and some cardamom crumb cakes.

OH and ps!~!!~ SURVIVOR is on it's new night~!~ I am off to watch my recorded desperate housewives show before hubby gets home!~ HEE HEE i know it is crazy but I am so so addicted to that show and am watching all the reruns to get up to date for when the show premiers for the new season!! LOL

LOVE all those women!! but Susan is my favo!!

Have a blessed evening!!

HUGS

Darlene

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