Hello from Tempe!

Hello all! At the moment me and Erik are sitting in the Airport in Tempe, Arizon.

We have a overnight flight to Philadelphia, then to Boston, which should put us in Boston around 7am. Shew long day. Anyways, I have to say I LOVE Tempe! Its a typical college town with lots of bars, lots of good restraunts, and lots of friendly happy party people. I think I could live there. Well at least for a bit. We missed our flight this afternoon that would have put us in Boston tonight, and at first I was a bit disappointed but now I'm so happy we got a chance to bum around the town and enjoy our little world that we so rarely get to explore. Tomorrow we'll be in Boston, then my best brother Jerr is going to pick us up and then we'll head out to New York to explore and see a Broadway!! Anyways, I'll be back to update you after our trip. Bye for now!

Mini Cherry Pies are delicious

It's a little blurry.

 

 

 

I'm terrible at lattice (sp?)

I'm totally going to make these for a valentines day party!

 

O, I also love this lady

Fall is a lovely time to spend with family and Friends

We went for a little fall drive up into Sundance this weekend, we missed the 'turning point' of summer to fall but it was still really pretty. I also just made some mini cherry pies. And they taste pretty good. O and guess what?? We're going to BOSTON on Wednesday to see my best friend/Brother Jerr!!

Looking over the world we live in.

 

My Sweet Loving Husband of Mine.

 

We went to the Pumpkin Patch!

 

 

Some of our lil cousins

For all you Oklahoma Lovers.

      Well, it seems I've taken to writting more lately.
Erik, has been gone canyoneering. And as we speak I think he's sleeping in his car somewhere between here and Green River. Boo. He tried to make it home though. So I think I'm just going to stay awake till he gets home.
       Anyways, I've been following this Vegan blog for the past couple of weeks and have been LOVING it. You can make anything vegan and it taste wonderful! This morning I made vegan French Toast. Seriously. Amazing. Instead of the eggs you add yeast and flour and instead of the milk you use, well "anything other than diary" milk, like almond milk, rice milk, rice dream, ect. Last week I made those Vegan Milano cookies, and they were (may I say it?) damn good. I think next I'm going to make her Vegan Sweet Potato Pie. YUM.

      So hows everyone doing?

     I think I'm in a missing Oklahoma a lot kind of mood. Well, to be honest its been going on for about 5 years. So I shall post some beautiful pictures that I did not take, but an assortment of Okie's did.

Don't you just love Buffalo. 

Scary. But Mother Nature is just so amazing. Well and intimidating.

Sigh. My heart misses the storms so much.

No sunset can compare to Oklahoma Sunsets.

Oklahoma hail. I kinda wonder how we survived, looking back.

:)

I remember seeing a field like this once when I was a little girl. Kansas has lots of these though :)

AH!

Oklahoma doesn't get like this like Utah does, so when it does happen, its wonderful.

Here it comes! Get excited!

More buffalo :)

Erik loves these!

Happy.

Happy again. I love trees. The world would be a lot less beautiful if it didn't have trees.

This looks more like Arkansas to me, but it might be in the northern eastern part. But doesn't this picture just make you feel so peaceful?

Well, and this one, its a picture taken in Colorado, but I just really liked it.

Baking Festival!

I've been baking a lot these past couple of weeks and it has been loads of fun. This weekend we are heading to Colorado to make some good 'ol homemade apple cidar, picked from our family's own trees :)

This is how my kitchen looks when I'm cooking. But that's the way I like it ;).

My sweet lil' husband helping me whip up some cream

This is my Dad's recipe for Harvest Pie, he makes it look SOOOO much better, but it was still delicious.

There's wonderful lady who makes the best deserts..this is one of them. The LEMON SQUARES.

YUM!

Lemon Squares

Same this goes for these Cherrie-Cheesecake bites!

Cherrie Cheesecake

..well theres nothing special about these other than I made orange frosting for them and wrote 'Happy birthday Jerom!!' in black frosting. I Love birthdays.

Such Wonderful Halloween Weather

And Last but not least...Vegan Milano Cookies :)

MIlano COokies

Apple-Pumpkin-Oatmeal Muffins

I found this recipe off of AllRecipes.com and kinda tweaked it too what I wanted :)

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice (Which I made from scratch-Recipe Below)
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten (I only used 1)
  
• 1 cup canned pumpkin
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil (substituted for apple sauce/grated apples)
  
• 2 cups finely chopped peeled apples
• TOPPING:
  
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon butter or margarine

In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. Combine eggs, pumpkin and oil; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in apples. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. For topping, combine sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; sprinkle 1 teaspoon over each muffin. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

After they cooled a bit I topped one of them with my friend Jenny 's Apple Butter Recipe http://delightfuldelicacies.blogspot.com/2008/10/old-fashioned-apple-butter.html

(Erik's parents gave us a bushel of apples/pears/peaches and raspberry's)

Pumpkin Spice

1/2 tsp Cinnamon 1/4 tsp Ginger 1/8 tsp Cloves 1/8 tsp Nutmeg =1 Tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice