Hello All,
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
It is so dark these mornings, but I think it is this weekend we "fall back" and turn our clocks back, so the mornings won't be quite so dark (at least for a little bit). Afternoons, on the other hand, will be darker.
Yesterday was super warm and I think there will be more of that today. Fletch and I sat out comfortably and then he grilled steaks for our dinner. Yum!
Today I'll share some things with you - a miscellaneous 3 on Thursday (copying Carole) if you will. First up, I did make both cranberry relish and cranberry chutney yesterday.
The relish (on the right is just cut up/ground up cranberries and oranges. And a boat-load of sugar. The chutney is a ground up orange and cranberries (not ground up) cooked on the stove with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, apple cider vinegar and sugar. I don't process these as they keep FOREVER in the frig. I made enough to give a jar of each to C&M and I even have an extra jar of the chutney for Fletch to take to a former client.
Because Fletch is going to visit his former client, I had to bake some cookies. Connie and David LOVE cookies. I made a batch of chocolate chip with the addition of some cut up uncrystallized ginger. I think chocolate and ginger go so well together. Fletch sampled one last night and pronounced it delicious. I was too full from dinner to try one...but I will today!
Between the cranberry relish and chutney and the cookies, our house smelled like a combination of Thanksgiving and Christmas!
The last thing to share is wine! You all know that at times I buy wine by the label and the other day was no exception. I have not heard of Cult Wine from Napa previously, but I picked up a bottle of cab to try. For some reason, my pictures are not loading...or I can load one but it won't show when I preview my post. But here is a LINK to what the front of the bottle looks like. The wine is just ok - not great, but it went well with our steaks. The label though? That just cracks me up!
I have no idea if we will get any trick or treaters this evening. It's always a crap shoot. Sometimes we get some and many years we have none. I was remembering that years ago my aunt in Vermont would bake chocolate chip cookies to give out. She used to have kids (little and big) come from miles around for her cookies. Today, of course, no one would let their kid have home-made cookies which is kind of sad.
Hope everyone's Thursday is spooky! Have a good one.
I am sad about the time change because it will be too dark for my after dinner walks 🙃 some yummy making going on here
ReplyDeleteMy whole family is crazy about that cranberry orange relish, but they'll only eat it at Thanksgiving. They're all about Tradition and Rituals. If I served it any other time, they'd be outraged.
ReplyDeleteI bet your house smells great and the things you made taste great also! I used fresh ginger for the first time yesterday and I am a big fan! Peeling and chopping it is a little cumbersome but I hope to make a fresh ginger cake with what I have left over. Those cookies sound delicious!
ReplyDeleteYum! I would have liked to be at your house with all of that baking/cooking going on.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
We had dinner on Friday at a friend's -- she's an AMAZING cook (almost everything was from her garden) -- and she served a cranberry-kumquat relish that was SO GOOD! I love anything like that. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have not baked cookies in ages, but that really makes me want to!
ReplyDeleteI don't love the time change because I hate how it gets dark in the afternoon, but I think we should be on Standard Time all the time, so I'd have to deal with it whether or not we changed the clocks. I can only imagine how delicious it smelled at your house yesterday! I'm going to take a page from your book and bake an apple cider donut cake tomorrow while Molly is home from school.
ReplyDeleteOh, yum!! Everything looks so delicious! That wine label did crack me up. I'm guilty of buying wine for the label also. There are some really clever ones out there especially the Nouveau Beaujolais.
ReplyDeleteMy mom used to make a cranberry relish that was very similar and we'd have it on warm biscuits and it was SO good! Thanks for sparking that memory.
ReplyDeleteMy nana made a cranberry relish that sounds very similar Vera! And those cookies are making my mouth water! Yum! Happy Halloween!
ReplyDeleteWould crystalized ginger work just as well do you think?
ReplyDeleteThe cookies sound delicious! Nice job on the relish!
ReplyDeleteThe cookies sound delicious. I like to make a Cranberry Chutney to give to neighbors at Christmas. I can almost smell those good kitchen smells from here.
ReplyDeleteOur weather has been warm but thankfully cold at night so I can sleep okay. We have company coming this weekend and I'll be doing some baking so hopefully my kitchen will smell fantastic!
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