Risotto and Yakima

Yay for blogger working again!

I made risotto the other night! I used a recipe from my America's Test Kitchen cookbook.....it was really good! I put purple and orange carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, white wine, brown rice, and love into it. The purple cooked out of the carrots and the rice soaked it up, so it kinda had a purple tint overall, but was delicious.....L liked it, too.....in fact we had leftovers of it for dinner tonight. =)

We spent the weekend in Yakima. I took photos for my youngest sister's senior pics.....I hope they turn out great! We had dinner at my grandparents' and the whole fam competed in a pumpkin carving contest.....the winner was a big pumpkin with a cute little dog carved into it! (not mine....I'm not that creative, mine just had a bat carved into it)

My other sis and I ran a bunch of errands over the weekend, too.....we went to a local bookstore over there and I bought a new book for my self The Clutter Cure, we'll see if that gets me anywhere! Haha.....and some blocks for L, she loves them already.....she tries to stack them, then destroys whatever she's stacked....it's pretty funny to watch her. Hubby stacked up a pyramid today with the blocks and L came along a wrecked it and laughed!

Speaking of hubby, he went hunting over the weekend with his dad. Hubby didn't get anything, but his dad did! A deer. Hubby's been hunting twice this year and both times has come up empty handed, but I think he has fun just being in the woods and doing man stuff.....I'm glad he has something to do that he enjoys! After having L, we've both struggled to find time for ourselves.

Tomorrow I work, then L and I will carve her pumpkin....I'm excited to see how she likes the guts!

This year we're doing Thanksgiving at our house! My mom, dad, youngest sister and probably her boyfriend, are coming over and staying the night with us. We did Thanksgiving here a couple of years ago and I think it turned out great, some of our friends and their kids came over that year. But this year will definitely be different. Hubby was diagnosed with Celiac disease in March, so we've got to make an entire comfort-food-dinner with no wheat/gluten! I've already got some ideas for how to change some of our favorite recipes into gluten free goodness, still not sure how to change the green bean casserole, though. We're going to make the stuffing with gf cornbread, the pumpkin pie with gf gingersnap cookie crumb crust (say that 5 times fast!), and some yummy gf rolls. I'm excited to see how it all turns out!