Today's Events

Since the kids are out of school for the rest of the week we have been enjoying some downtime.  This morning we went to the market and found a pumpkin.  It was a green pumpkin but the inside was orange so we thought maybe it would be a real pumpkin and it was.  Why did we want a pumpkin?  Well, Shannon's favorite drink from Starbucks is a pumpkin spice latte and he has really been craving one.  And also Thanksgiving is coming up and what is Thanksgiving without a pumpkin pie, right? You can not buy pumpkin in a can here, the only choice we had was to make our own pumpkin puree.  Now I'm pretty sure if we lived in the states that I would not have made my own puree, I would have bought the pumpkin in the can.  Ok, if I'm going to go that far, I wouldn't have made a pumpkin spice latte either, I would have went to Starbucks.  Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Here's our puree after we baked our pumpkin and put it in the food processor.  Guess how much we needed for the latte syrup?  Three tablespoons.  

Cooking the puree and the spices for the syrup.

The finished product.  That's a lot of syrup with just three tablespoons of pumpkin puree.

 Shannon had his pumpkin spice latte after this.  Doesn't it just look so healthy?  I know. 

Here's the pumpkin spice latte.

The first taste and it was a success.   He loved it and said that it was very close to Starbucks. 

The happy camper.

Look what else we found at the market, sweet potatoes from Peru.  Ok, I know I only took a picture of one potato but we bought more.  We are excited about these!

And this is what the kids did while we made the puree.  Tree one.

My favorite ornament.  

Tree 2.  (It's a little dark)

Now you might find this funny.  I do not like pumpkin spice lattes or pumpkin pie or pumpkin period.

Want to make your own pumpkin spice latte?  Here's the recipe.

Want to make your own pumpkin puree?  Here's the recipe.