Last week Eric and I went to see “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Hale Center Theater in Orem. He’s taking a theater class this semester and has to go see 3 or 4 plays, so there was more incentive for us to go this time since he had an assignment due on Friday. Anyway, we went and loved it – it was a hilarious dark comedy. My favorite part was at the end when all the actors were wearing Venus Fly Trap tentacles on their arms and had little plants growing out of their heads/necks. Hah. No pictures this time. Boo. But we’ll be seeing more plays this fall…so stay tuned.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
pumpkins…yum
Fall is my favorite time of year for so many reasons. Not only do I finally get to stop melting in the heat of my air conditioning-less apartment and wear sweaters and scarves, the trees change to gorgeous yellows and reds and we are this much closer to Christmas. Pumpkin, to me, is one of those flavors and smells that just epitomizes fall. As such, I’ve been taking advantage of the prevalence of canned pumpkin in the cooking aisle and making all kinds of delicious pumpkin goodies (…or at least I plan to). One of my favorites is pumpkin soup, which I posted about last year. I made a few changes to it this year, and it was even more delicious than before. Even Shannon loved it! Here’s the recipe:
Pumpkin Soup
Sautee 2 Tbsp. butter and 1 white onion (chopped) in a large saucepan and then add 1 can chicken broth. Simmer and stir for 15 minutes. After simmering, puree in blender and then return to saucepan. Add 1 (15 oz.) can pureed pumpkin, 1/2 additional can chicken broth, 8 shakes of salt, 8 shakes of black pepper, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/8 tsp. ginger, cloves and nutmeg to taste, a TINY shake of cayenne powder (if available), and 1/4 cup (add more to taste) of brown sugar. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add 1 cup heavy cream, stir. Serve immediately.
So delicious. I also was for some reason craving a pumpkin smoothie while I was at work today, even though I’ve never actually had one before…it just sounded really good. Instead of getting one from Jamba Juice (since the advertisement posters have been taunting me…) I came home after work and looked up a pumpkin smoothie recipe on my favorite recipe site, allrecipes.com. Here’s the recipe I made, with a few minor changes based on what the comments said.
I’m excited to make pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie and to make pumpkin soup again…mmm. Pumpkin.
P.S. I’ve decided “pumpkin” is a really cute word.
#19: go to a corn maze
3 new blogs in one day?! What?!?! I must have nothing to do at 12:36 am on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Hm. I went to work at a date night earlier tonight and I’ve been home for a couple hours playing on the internet…these blogs are apparently the last thing I thought of to do when I’m bored. Hah. Oh, I also apologize for all the bazillions of pictures posted on this blog that basically feature a snapshot of Eric and me in some random locale. We don’t have anyone else to take pictures for us. And there aren’t more of us to take pictures of. So this is what you get…lucky you!
Anyway, last night Eric and I went to the Cornbelly’s corn maze/fall festival/Halloween festival/whatever at Thanksgiving Point and had a really fun time. We did the “Phase B” corn maze there (aka the hard one that takes a long time) and got through it in about an hour. Yay we are awesome maze-doers. Maze-doers? What is the term? There probably isn’t one…but there should be.
After the maze we partook in some of the other activities, like doing a little hay-bale maze where you couldn’t make left turns, going on a hayride, eating a caramel apple, bouncing on a big inflatable pillow type thing, walking through a “haunted creature” (exactly what it sounds like) and a 3-D haunted house (it was for little kids but it was still pretty fun…and trippy), sitting in a giant rocking chair, trying to lasso small stationary cattle heads (no success on either of our parts), and being cold. It was fun! There was a haunted corn maze thing but we decided not to do that because to be honest…I don’t like things that stress me out. Haha. But yeah. We had a lot of fun.
#4: drive the alpine loop to see the fall colors
Well, we didn’t actually get to drive the whole loop since the guard station was open and we had neither cash nor check to pay the $5 or whatever it is to get a 3-day park pass, so we just drove up to the station. Fortunately, the fall colors were in fall swing on the way up to Sundance and Aspen Lodge, so we were still able to get a few good pictures.
#15: drive to payson lakes
Last Sunday between sessions of General Conference, Eric and I decided to brave the cold weather, hopped in the car, and drove the Nebo Loop. Payson Lakes is a little less than halfway through the Nebo Loop. We’d gone here together before we were married and really wanted to go back to sort of take a little trip down memory lane (not that long ago, I know). It snowed while we were there, and I was pretty ill-prepared for the weather. Poor Eric gave up his jacket so I wouldn’t freeze and sink like a little frozen statue to the bottom of the lake. How sweet of him. Here are a few pictures:
