Monday, August 30, 2010

fall is in the air

Fall is most definitely in the air. Which has led me craving autumn crafting and cooking projects. And so to indulge myself in this fall mood I decided on taking Owen for a nature walk to get started on our fall nature table. On our walk we collected pinecones, leaves and a few rocks. Once back home I showed him how to make leaf tracings with wax crayons and he added a few of his own artistic touches. I then got started on some felt leaf cutouts which I have yet to finish as I had to get working on dinner. Again inspired by fall I decide to make some carrot-tomato soup, which surprisingly enough I put together on my own, only loosely combining two recipes I knew of. I may just finally be coming into my own with cooking. I usually have to follow recipes to a T and can never begin to let myself make anything (even if I had made it 100 times before) without reading the entire recipe carefully. So this was a big step for me. Anyway I decided I would rather serve the soup with fresh basil and heavy cream, which I had none of in the house at the moment, so decided I'd save it for another day this week. So I then got started on some black bean burritos and to my surprise Owen ate them up like no other!! He had two serving and even ate all the veggies!!! I was literally staring, jaw dropped, then started cheering him on for being such a good eater, lol. Lets hope that he will have the same reaction to the soup! I had so many projects going on today that I didn't get much of chance to take photos so here are only a couple shots of the art project we did once back from our nature walk. I will be sure however to post later on this week on our progress with our fall nature table and the recipe for the carrot-tomato soup.


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