Pumkin Season

It's that time of year friends, oh yes, it's Pumpkin Time!!! Now I guess pumpkin time really starts back in October but as I wasn't around last month I've had a bit of a delayed start.

I've already made pumpkin muffins and have now moved on to pumpkin roll. I was gonna share that recipe with you today, but then I realized it's already in my Cocktails and Carbohydrates cookbook, in fact I have an entire chapter dedicated to holiday treats which I highly suggest you peruse in your spare time.

Now I have found a new recipe for a pumpkin treat that reminds me of Blueberry Dump done pumpkin style, so I'm gonna try that out this weekend on Sweetpotato and let you know if it's worth makin'. Sweetpotato just loves being my guinea pig this time of year, but only for desserts. In fact, he prefers I not attempt any recipe that does not involve an oven cause to be sure it won't end well otherwise. In my experience, cookers don't bake and bakers don't cook. Personally, I have no interest in standing over a stove, stirring steaming pots, hoping that the ingredients come out tasting like something you'd wanna eat. At least with baking, for the most part you're pretty sure that no matter what the condition of the confection, if it's made of sugar, flour and eggs, it's probably gonna taste okay. Sunken cakes taste just as good as risen ones, and with a little icing who can tell the difference? Not so with cooking. I mean, you walk away from your risotto for even a minute and you're serving glue with a burnt aftertaste that no amount of cream cheese frosting can disguise.

hence, I have ceased all stove-top endeavors and am only allowed to operate the oven and the mixer unsupervised. You see, baking is my one and only domestic skill and I intend to cultivate no others. There are women who enjoy ironing and who can't sleep in an unmade bed. I am clearly not one of them. In fact, I think those women should undergo psychological evaluation immediately. Again, I have to go back to, why do something you can pay someone else to do for you? Right now I'm simply trying to survive until I win the lotto and can hire a full-time made because housework simply does not become me. Besides, I wanted Sweetpotato to love me for my body not my housekeeping abilities. Clearly I have succeeded;-)