Fall Fun

Is it just me or is the fall season quickly flying by? I can’t believe it’s already mid-October!?! Where does the time go?

As you probably know, Fall is my FAVORITE season ever. I love everything about it.

My fall favorites:

I feel like I’ve barely done any of these fall favorites and now the season is slipping away from me. So much fall fun, not enough time! Gah!

Mal and I tried to go apple picking this past weekend, but all of the nearby orchards were picked cleaned. We’re planning to carve pumpkins and roast pumpkin seeds this coming weekend, so, hopefully, they’ll help me feel like I haven’t missed out on the season. Maybe it’s not too late to squeeze in some fall fun?!

A few weeks ago, Gena sent me a copy of a tiny book called Cooking with Wholegrains. It was written in the 1940′s by the Ortons, a husband and wife pair who owned a bakery and country store. The cookbook was an appeal to the postwar housewife to stop using the refined flours that were becoming so popular in supermarkets, and get back to basics: pure, stongeground, whole flours. Now, sixty years later, the book is being reissued for today’s health-savvy audience. Neat, right?

Well, this little cookbook has a ton of great recipes in it. I’ve already flagged at least a dozen, including one for Oatmeal Bread, which I baked last night for breakfast this morning.

I toasted two pieces of Oatmeal Bread and added Teddie peanut butter and banana slices to it. (I also ended up eating a container of Stonyfield yogurt, but didn’t snap a photo.) On the side, I drank some iced coffee with soy milk.

Just a reminder: The nice people at Seven Hopes United offered to help Mal and me raise money for Team In Training! How awesome is that!?

Seven Hope United will donate 10% of any sales made through Carrots ?N? Cake to Team In Training!! Be sure to enter the coupon code ?CNCTNT? in the section under “Additional Options,” so the Seven Hopes United people know that the order was a referral from Carrots ‘N’ Cake. More details here.

For the locals: The folks at Eversave Boston offered to give one lucky Carrots ‘N’ Cake reader $125 toward any salon or spa services at Fia Salon & Spa in Newton!!!

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What are your favorite fall activities? Have you had time to participate in them this year?

P.S. Check out my produce challenge over on Trading Up Downtown!