Dinner out!

We went to Macaroni Grill last week with Dad and Maestra.

Lily shares her macaroni with her brother...

Fettucini Alfredo

This is the day we stopped eating cheesy noodles and pronounced "Fettucini Alfredo".
1 lb fettucini
6-8 TBSP Butter (melted)
1 1/2 cups Half and Half (stir into butter)
1 cup shredded Parmesan Reggiano (stir into milk)
light salt
fresh cracked pepper


Tada

sometimes it's not quite up to code

Jiffy corn muffins

Sometimes you need to sort through your priorities.

So Lily is making muffins on crazy KT's floor.

They were delicious.

Pumpkin Bread

Lily loves the Kitchen Aid. What to do with the extra pumpkin you didn't carve? Well, it was a fight between the pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie - but pumpkin chocolate chip bread won.

Preheat oven to 400
In a medium bowl mix in:
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking power
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

In the Kitchen Aid Bowl add and Beat until creamy:
6 Tbsp softened butter
1 1/3 cup sugar
Add one at a time:
2 eggs (Let the kids break them into separate bowl - they love it! Lily has been doing this since she was 2!)
1 cup cooked pumpkin (canned is fine but recipe follows)
Mix in:
2 or 3 little handfuls of chocolate chips

Pour into a greased loaf pan (I use olive oil spray - Lily loves to spray this all over the place). Bake for 40-50 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.