Nature Friday

 We are joining Rosy today for Nature Friday~~

The Autumn colors continue to brighten!

We discovered very pretty mums this week~

We delivered Landlady Maryann's mail and we found that her Quince was blooming!

Check out this creepy guy!

We found Mr and Mrs Spider on their web~

Have you ever seen a pink lady spider before?

Happy Friday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Wordless Wednesday

 

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Tasty Tuesday

 Mom had some apple cider that she wanted to use up and she found this recipe that she wanted to try~

Pumpkin Apple Cider Bread or Muffins

ingredients

• 1cup apple cider
• 1cup canned pumpkin puree
• 2 large eggs
• 1⁄4cup vegetable oil
• 3⁄4cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2tablespoons freshly grated orange zest
• 2cups all-purpose flour
• 2teaspoons double-acting baking powder
• 1⁄2teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4teaspoon ground mace
• 1⁄4teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄8teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄2cup chopped walnuts

directions

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In saucepan, boil cider until it's reduced to about 1/4 cup; let it cool.
• In bowl, whisk together well pumpkin purée, eggs, oil, brown sugar, zest, and cider.
• In bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, mace, cinnamon and cloves.
• Add the walnuts; stir batter just until combined.
• Pour batter to a well-buttered 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan.
• Bake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean.
• Let bread cool in the pan.

We're boiling the 1 cup of apple cider to reduce it to 1/4 cup.  In all honesty,  mom didn't notice the muffins tasting more apple than pumpkin and the cider didn't thicken so she won't be doing the boiling again.  

I got to taste the pumpkin puree!

I got to taste the muffin batter too!

So we made muffins instead of bread in a loaf pan and mom also used dried cranberries instead of walnuts.  The muffins are just out of the oven.  They are such a pretty Autumn color!

Time for me to tasteTest!

They are excellent and not overly sweet!

We will be making this recipe again!

Happy Tuesday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke