Fall

Fall is my favorite time of year, it's a bit cooler outside, the leaves are beautiful, and although I'm not a big fan of winter, I do love Christmas and having some snow on the ground.

I have been keeping busy as usual with exercise and in the kitchen. I went for a 5 km run a few weeks ago and it was such a beautiful day

Yes in October I was outside in shorts and a tank top, can't complain about that!  One breakfast I do enjoy, or even for a snack is creating my own yogurt. I don't remember the last time I had a yogurt with fruit already in it. I rather add my own to my yogurt, so for this one it's plain Greek organic yogurt, I added fresh blueberries and strawberries, a bit of maple syrup and some chia seeds

I sometimes also add in granola or nuts for some crunch. My friend and I also got really busy in the kitchen and made our own bread

One of them is oat and honey, and the other is white and whole wheat flour. We want to try to get together as often as we can to increase our skills in the kitchen by trying out things we have never made before, and these were a really good success. They were delicious!  We also decided to make our own meatballs

With some of those, we made a tomato sauce and our supper was spaghetti, with some of our homemade bread, and desert, we made an apple crumble. It was a really good supper!

The bonus is we had some left over to make more meals with them. The other weekend I did make a big pot of tomato sauce with ground beef, lots of vegetables, some herbs and spices, and let it cook in my slow cook all day. I have 3 mason jars in my freezer with extra sauce to use for another time. I also did a bit more baking and made almond cookies which are my favorite, and also made some molasses cookies since it's been a while since I made them. I lost the recipe again but thankfully my friend still had it.

This weekend my friend and are getting together again to get some pies ready for the holidays. We will of course have some meat pies, and unsure what else yet, but hoping we make potato pie, and apple pie and we will of course have to make some pet de soeur.

I have started Christmas shopping, but still a few more things to buy till it's all done. I went to my dad's yesterday, and my brother, sister in law and the kids were there to, and we planned a day to get together for Christmas to celebrate together, and looks like we agreed to come to my place to celebrate, so I'm excited to have them over, and I will have some pies all ready for our supper. Not sure if they will be as good as my mom made them, but I will be using her pie crust recipe cause it was always so good! I will post about our weekend and share pictures and recipes.