These Make Me Happy!

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Take a look at what I got yesterday!!

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This pot is by Berndes.

Its HUGE and perfect for a big batches of soup and stew for company!

I do have a pretty large stew pot that I use all the time... but there have been instances where I have made two soups for one dinner party, and that's not a fun thing to do with only one pot.  I had to cook one stew in it, transfer it to my crock pot... then cook the second.

But no more!!

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This pot was recommended to me by my mother-in-law, who makes a positively genius chicken-cheese-chowder.  Berndes is especially good because it just wont burn your creamy type soups!  (A very easy thing to do in any other pan... trust me I've been there.)

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Ya know what else makes me happy?

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THESE!!!!

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And THESE!!!

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And THESE!!!

I love fall decorations.

And I love fall.

I love cozy, warm colors.  And carving a pumpkin in a cool new way after reading about it in Martha Stewart magazine.

I love baking pumpkin bars and smearing pumpkin butter on Cracked Wheat Bread.

This reminds me of the semester in college when I bought a pumpkin, gave him a face, and named him Benny.  And my evil roommate kidnapped him and left me a ransom note and tried to get me to do stupid things to get him back.

Or the following year in college...
where I dressed up like a pumpkin!   Just because!

I was feeling the fall spirit!

Yes... This really happened.
Yes... I tied a stick to a headband so it would look like a stem.

Can you tell I love pumpkins?

I LOVE pumpkins.

Happy Fall everyone,
Carissa