Sometimes it's safe to be in the mouth of a pumpkin

 I had a lot of fun creating this video in honor of Fall Season. I found the photo in the photo directory of wave.video, the video creator program that I use. I love black cats and I love pumpkins so I knew at once I wanted to create something fun with it. I named it: Sometimes it's safe to e in the mouth of a pumpkin

Now naturally you couldn't tell what the kitten was looking at so I had to use my imagination to figure it out.  And to me.... since the kitten was in a jack-o-lantern it must of been Fall Season. So since falling leaves are popular during the Fall it was only natural that I imagined he was looking at falling leaves right! LOL! So then I added the sound of the wind to match the video. ~wink

Well I hope you enjoyed the video. I always have so much fun making them for you. While making it, it boosted an idea for a quick "Autumn Season is upon us" idea. So tomorrow I will post a 60 second "short" for you. ~Smile.... "Live Everyday like a Holiday" Love Pam

Cheese Pumpkins

Cheese Pumpkins
Originally uploaded by Betty Crocker Recipes

We're having guests over for drinks tonight and I picked this recipe for cheese pumpkins to serve with the drinks. I think it's a fun reminder of Thanksgiving and a great recipe to fix for National Pumpkin Month (October) too. :) Thank you Betty C.

Ingredients:

• 8 tablespoons smoked Cheddar cold pack cheese food (from 8-oz container), well chilled
• 2 teaspoons finely chopped peanuts
• 4 butter-flavored pretzel spindles or sticks, broken in half
• 16 tiny pieces fresh parsley leaves

Directions:

1. Line small serving plate with waxed paper. Roll each level tablespoon cold pack cheese food into a ball; place on waxed paper-lined serving plate. Refrigerate 10 to 15 minutes for easier handling.

2. With end of toothpick, draw ridges around balls to resemble pumpkins. Dip bottoms of cheese balls in chopped peanuts.

3. Just before serving, insert pretzel halves into cheese balls for pumpkin stems. Decorate with parsley for leaves. Store in refrigerator.

Candy Corn Cookies Recipe

Celebration Food: Now here's a recipe that's not just for National Cookie Day & National Cookie Month, but it's perfect for all Autumn celebrations like Halloween and Thanksgiving too. We also think this recipe is a must make for National Candy Corn Day which is celebrated every year on October 30th. So thanks to Betty Crocker you can have some candy corn cookie fun with your family.

Candy Corn Cookies Recipe
Originally uploaded by Betty Crocker Recipes

DIRECTIONS:

• 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix
• 1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 1 egg
• Orange paste food color
• 2 oz semisweet chocolate, melted, cooled

INGREDIENTS:

1. Line 8x4-inch loaf pan with waxed paper, extending paper over sides of pan. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter and egg until soft dough forms.

2. On work surface, place 3/4 cup dough. Knead desired amount of food color into dough until color is uniform. Press dough evenly in bottom of pan.

3. Divide remaining dough in half. Gently press one half of remaining dough into pan on top of orange dough. On work surface, knead chocolate into remaining dough until color is uniform. Press over plain dough in pan, pressing gently to edge of pan. Refrigerate 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until firm.

4. Heat oven to 375°F. Remove dough from pan. Cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Cut each slice into 5 wedges. On ungreased cookie sheet, place wedges 1 inch apart.

5. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are set and edges are very light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely. Store in tightly covered container.
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Halloweegan Pumpkin Pancakes

Halloweegan Pumpkin Pancakes
Originally uploaded by River (Wing-It Vegan)

Look-ah-here what I found :)
I enjoy finding great blog posts and passing them on to fellow bloggers. Here's a good one to share.

These pancakes are so cute and what could be better than eating a plate of these happy pumpkin faces for National Pancake Day (October 29), Cool foods for kids month, Eat better eat together month or for Halloween. All these holidays are celebrated in the month of October. 

Hey these could easily be adapted for National Smile Day too. That's not an October holiday, but one to remember for later.

Check out the blog who blogged it.

• Wing It Vegan: Vegan eats and geekery
• VeganMoFo - Halloweegan! The Inevitable Pancake Post
• Oh my gosh you have to see their leggy whoopie spiders too! Even better than mine! I would of shared the photo from flickr but I couldn't find it to blog it. The recipes with this one too.

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A Toast To All Things Pumpkin!

Pumpkin Mug

October 
October is National Pumpkin Month, October 26 is National Pumpkin Day & since we're in the last week of the month, it's our last change to make a toast to all things pumpkin. So raise your cups everyone!

We are about to say goodbye 
to October and say hello to November. I for one wish it didn't have to go yet. I just love seeing all the jack-o-lanterns all lit up. Even though pumpkins are still part of the Thanksgiving season in November, it's the end of National Pumpkin Month for October. So this post is in honor of the pumpkin.

As I mentioned on my website... The pumpkin is very versitile. We enjoy growing them in our gardens, we paint and decorate them, we carve them and we enjoy their ornimental fashions in our yards. We cook pumpkin soup, we bake them in the over and eat along side other meat and veggies, we even make sweet pies and pastries with them. We treat ourselves with roasted pumpkin seeds too. We play games with pumpkins and we place pumpkin on our porches and in our window sills. Why we even drink pumpkin spice coffees and milkshakes too. What would the Fall Season be without it? So here's to you pumpkin. We toast you.
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Pumpkin Spice Latte

• 3 cups hot whole milk
• 4 teaspoons white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 6 ounces double-strength brewed coffee
• 3 tablespoons sweetened whipped cream
• 3 pinches pumpkin pie spice

Combine the hot milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and pumpkin pie spice in a blender; blend until frothy. Pour the mixture into 3 coffee mugs to about 2/3 full. Pour 2 ounces coffee into each mug. Garnish each mug with whipped topping and pumpkin pie spice. 

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Pumpkin Pie Milkshake

• 1/3 C pumpkin, canned 
• 1/4 – 1/2 C milk
• 1/4 t vanilla
• 1/2 t cinnamon
• 1/16 t cloves
• 1/16 t nutmeg
• 2 T brown sugar
• 2 C vanilla ice cream
• 1-2 graham crackers

Mix everything all together and gradually add the milk to the thickness you want.
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Nite Nite everyone, Pam

Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip

Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip
Originally uploaded by fakeginger

Hello everyone! This post is in honor of National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day which is celebrated on October 21st every year.

Cheesecake is a real favorite of mine. If it's not to heavy on the spices, I can easily eat 2 slices. Each slice has to have whipped cream topping too. But this post is not about cheesecake is it- Nope- Today I've decided to celebrate this holiday with a pumpkin cheesecake dip instead of a cheesecake cake/pie. Below is a recipe adapted from Taste of Home.

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1 brick (8 ounces) cream cheese
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 – 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream (optional)
gingersnaps and/or fresh fruit for serving

Using a mixer, beat cream cheese and pumpkin puree until smooth. Add powdered sugar (1/2 cup at a time), pumpkin pie spice, and ginger until combined. If your dip is too thick, add 1 – 2 tablespoons of heavy cream to thin it out. Keep in refrigerator and serve cold. fakeginger
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Happy National Cheesecake Day everyone! Remember this recipe for your Halloween, Autumn or Thanksgiving get-to-gether. Or treat the kids for a after school snack. If you've tried this recipe before, what did you serve it with? Cookies? Apples? Or? Let us know your suggestions.
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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Originally uploaded by Wabana

Hello everyone and Happy Halloween to you all! Halloween is such a fun and creative Holiday. I just love all the fantastic pumpkin carvings that you find and they just keep getting better and better each and every year. Once it gets dark outside, it's really fun to walk down the street in my community and see all the glowing jack-o-lanterns. It really puts a big grin on my face. Pumpkins have gained so much popularity during Halloween. We decorate with them, we do craft projects with the kids with pumpkins, we roast pumpkin seeds for snacks, and we cook every type of recipe that you can think of with pumpkin. Everything from pumpkin pies, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread to pumpkin soup. Are you ready to send some great Pumpkin E-Greetings? Well we have found some really fun ones that you can send to all your friends and family. Have fun wishing them a Happy Halloween. FREE Pumpkin Internet Greetings. Learn more about Pumpkins Click Here for more pumpkin