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Tonight's dinner party: Whole Roasted Chicken in Pipan Sauce, Frijolitos Pintos, Vegan Enchiladas, Arroz Mexicana, Chile Verde (New Mexican Green Chile) and a Pumpkin Flan for dessert!

Grilled Salmon tonight with green beans and acorn sqaush, sweet potato hash and fluffy scrambled eggs for breakfast tomorrow and rich autumn pork stew with beer and roasted brussel sprouts and at some point an apple pie with the last of my apples from the farmers market!

pear crumble and then pear sauce w/ the leftover pears. yesterday i made some delicious apple sauce, some of which is now frozen for the future.

We are repeating the long bean and bell pepper stir fry: http://onepot.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/bean-pepper-stirfry/

Book club tomorrow so I'll be making aloo mutter and rice and maybe naan if I can figure out how in time. Possibly cardamom ice cream for dessert, or maybe shortbread. It's so grey, it definitely feels like baking weather.

Dim Sum for my daughter's 15th birthday party and then *something* out of my new Julia Child cookbook on Sunday. (my husband swears that it's the best gift he's ever given me)

pork tenderloin with pomegranite/rosemary reduction with roasted acorn squash, and a winter salad- dinner for four!

Ginger Pumpkin Pie and Jamie Oliver's Beef and Ale Stew!

Warming up a little for thanksgiving: Rotisserie Turkey Breast with rotisserie pan potatoes, green beans and a salad.

I just made a batch of Pumpkin White Chocolate Blondies which are so addictive they will SWIFTLY be sent into work with the Mr.

And now I'm in search a Raspberry Scone recipe to bake.

I also plan on baking some beer bread sometime this weekend; and a shrimp dish for dinner Sunday.

Tomorrow it's bread, pizza dough (for the freezer), carrot cake, and ricotta gnocchi. I'm thinking of a butternut squash galette for Sunday--maybe with bacon, sage, and parmesan.

Probably another batch of four-hour baguette (from Daniel Leader's bread cookbook, found on the A Year in Bread blog), and maybe some breakfast muffins for my girls. Or some biscuits I found online recently - I just got a set of Ateco round cutters and I want to use them!

I'm craving a plate of creamy eggs for this mornings breakfast so once that is out of the way, I think I want to make an apple desert of some sort-the one bowl apple cake over at chowmama looked really tasty not to mention easy. Tomorrow night is zuni chicken however.

Just took some brioche hamburger buns out of the oven for our barbecue beef sandwiches.

Sunday will be homemade mac and cheese, pamesan butternut squash and tiramisu. (maybe some brats for the non-vegetarian types)

It is so warm that Monday will be ribs on the barbeque. It is usually snowy and cold this time of year, but my roses are still blooming.

Turkey soup with spaetzle. Stuffing with a fresh baguette from last November's Gourmet magazine. I made apple sauce and cranberry relish last week and there's plenty left. Every year I have Thanksgiving cravings well before the end of the month shows up, and I'm indulging them. I bought a butternut squash too, but I haven't decided what to do with it yet.

I had friends over for the (miserable) PSU vs. Ohio State game yesterday and we had a pretty good spread. I made vegetarian pumpkin chili (a friend brought a regular meat version, as well as pulled pork), hot corn dip, veggies and hummus and mini cheesecakes.

I am FREAKING OUT because I learned there is a source in Milwaukee for locally cured charcuterie at one of our winter markets: http://www.mcwfm.org/producers.html I have yet to check it out, but I'll start going when the last of the outdoor markets close up for the season. Yesterday was 71 degrees here. Weird.

We stocked up on sprouts and celariac, cider, leeks and potatoes, apples and the like. I'm thinking that the celariac greens will be in tonights dinner, and then I'll make a potage with the leeks and taters. We've been meaning to make a stuffed pumpkin but my husband made a vast lasagna with many of the elements I planned to use and we've been eating it for 5 days now. Gah.

But yeah, local charcuterie at a winter market. Damn it's good to be from Milwaukee!

Well, I made a batch of butternut squash soup (my first ever), and I now see what all the fuss is about. Yum!

Then, I got a hankering for comfort food and made one of my favorite meals that Mom used to make: chicken spaghetti! I don't think this is too popular outside of the south, but it's basically cubed chicken, mushrooms, and spaghetti noodles mixed with a can of cream of chicken and a can of cream of mushroom. Top it off with shredded cheddar cheese and bake it until it's bubbly. I'm telling you...it's one of the best things you'll ever eat. :)