What’s on tap for this week: what is selfish?, friendship boundaries, adult kids at home, are cities dead, and Friday…favorites or something I HAD to discuss? What will I be grateful for? What will I read? Listen to? Cook? Eat? See? All this right here on this very blog….
Happy Week!
Pie crust from good housekeeping.com
Ingredients1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour1 tbsp.
sugar1/2 tsp.
kosher salt1/2 c.
(1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Directions
- To food processor, add flour, sugar and salt and pulse once or twice to combine. Add cold butter and pulse until mixture forms pea-size crumbs.
- Add 2 Tbsp ice water, pulsing until dough forms large clumps and holds together when squeezed (if necessary, add remaining water 1 tsp at a time). Do not overmix.
- Transfer dough to piece of plastic wrap and shape into a ball, then flatten to form 1-in.-thick disk. Wrap tightly and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hr and up to 2 days.
Waking up on the Wrong Side of 50 
Love the pics! I love your painting. Thanks for sharing. 😊❤
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Three things jumped out @ me as I read through this one…first, I smiled when I saw the Van Halen “Jump” photo. For several years, I’ve talked about that song being one of the songs they play @ my funeral, Secondly, I had a case of pumpkin envy flitter through my brain when I saw that picture. I love to putter in the garden, and believe it or not I have not yet cracked the code on consistently growing pumpkins. There’s more to it than sticking the seeds in the ground and keeping them weeded. Maybe next season 🙂 and finally, pie crusts from scratch. I’ve dabbed in that as well, with limited success. Went out this morning and picked some end of season Cortlands, planning to wrap a couple of them up in home made pie crusts, our neighbor made for me last year …ie baked apples. Nothing says fall like the smell of apples baking when you come in the house. keep us posted on your pie crust experiments. 🙂 later! DM
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I found a recipe from the good housekeeping website. Best so far. It’s done in a food processor with butter. My issues were not separating it into two parts when chilling so that I could roll out each separately. I will add the recipe to the bottom of the page. And those pumpkins! Amazing!
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Eddie Van Halen… I used to dream about that guy.. now my dreams feature things more like that scary skeletor in that bloody seether pic above..ugh. Loved the “life balance” of having the delicate squash photo right above the ice cream.. 👍 Lastly, I’m glad you have both boots.
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Well you know, all in a day….ice cream and salad…
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Van Halen, monster hitmaker! I am not sure how you can eat so many sweets and still stay so trim. NYC must speed up your metabolism. Have a great week!
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So not trim!!!
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Ah, but in your picture you look trim. I am still working on trim with my size 10-12.
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What a beautiful cat. And to Eddie, gone too soon.
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So sad!
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How was Enola Holmes? Congrats on the boots finally!
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I enjoyed Enola…very female empowerment. Also, henry Cavill gives an interesting interpretation of Sherlock holmes
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Love your pictures, My husband and I enjoyed Enola Holmes and ypur kitty makes my day as usual. Don’t forget her every week.
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Will do!
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Love the painting of Two Dreamers. I bought some apples and some chocolate chips today so there’s baking in my near future. 😊 I usually make a streusel topping rather than a crust.
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I avoid crusts as well. This year I’m learning them
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I really like those stick “people” with the pumpkin heads. I need to figure out how to do that in our yard this Halloween. We don’t get many kids even on a normal year, so it really would be for me 🙂
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Nothing wrong with self decorating!
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Love the photos, love the pumpkins, love it when they are all piled up, I think it’s the colours that do it for me.
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Colors are gorgeous
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Fascinating pictures. Wish I had the energy and my shoulder was totally better to do a lot of things, but I’m kind of a homebody, so those fun outings are not too often. But I can vicariously through your pictures. 😀
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💗💗💗happy to oblige
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