Coolier Weather

Hi Everyone,

It has been beautiful weather here in Asheville this past weekend. Waking up to 32 degree temperatures at 7am and warming up to about 60 degrees by late afternoon. Weather like this makes me want to bake and cook all day long so that's what I did this weekend. Saturday morning dropped my daughter off to work for 8:30am and headed out to the WNC Farmer's Market to see what great veggies they might have to make for supper that night. Now the secret to this market is to get there before all of the tourist do that's about 10am.

I knew I needed bell peppers for the hot pepper jelly I was making when I got home. Also checked out apples because I am thinking of making applesauce this year for Christmas presents for friends and family. And then tuck away in a corner booth was something I hadn't seen since I was a little girl growing in my back yard, turnip greens.

Now thanks to Red Wing Farm they encouraged me to step out on faith and I decided to grow some collard greens for Thanksgiving this year and they are doing beautiful. Also Beth, the garlic is starting to shoot up.Sorry I have a tendency to go off on rabbit trails, lets get back to the turnips at hand. 

They were huge green leafy tops that had bottoms the size of baseballs. Just enough white and purple coloring so you knew they were turnips, so I grabbed me a bunch with dinner on my mind instead of Georgia.(ya'll get that on the way home). I also grabbed a head of cabbage for later on in the week along with the an assorted colorful basket of bell peppers to make my hot pepper jelly.

So I am done with my early morning shopping, now its time for jamming. I am a very serious Jam Maker. Everything has to be just so, the stars in the right house, the temperature perfect, and I must have the following movies ready to go, Independence Day, any Batman Movie and any Transformer movie. These things all lined up so we were good to go.

So I jammed all day and turnip green into the evening with some cornbread and BBQ ribs. Can you say Yummy in my Tummy!

Since the cool weather has put me in such a great cooking mood, I was also in the mood to bake. So I pulled out one of my favorite fall muffin recipe, Pumpkin Spice. Roasted pumpkin, sour cream, butter and pumpkin pie spice. To make this recipe even more special I made a second batch where I added walnuts and dried cranberries. MMMMM!!!!!

Menu for October 24-27, 2011:

Pumpkin Spice Muffin $1.25

Pumpkin Cranberry Spice Muffin $1.50

Grammie's Brownies $2.00

Grammie's Nutty Brownies $2.25

Chocolate Chip Scones $2.25

Click on this link to place an order by noon to get your order delivered by the next day. Don't forget Thanksgiving is only 30 days away and Home is Where the Heart is Bakery can help with all of you baking needs from the dinner rolls to desserts. Email me for details.

Have a Great Week!

Love Always,

Grammie