These pumpkins are in our backyard and I'm not sorry about this post because it's my favourite time of year!
Autumn is nostalgia for me. It's super close to my heart and brings out my childhood.
To get started, PLEASE read this book. It's lovely and who doesn't love fairytale books with magic and folklore???
From Goodreads.com:
"A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia.
Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and — in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured — Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs..."
Finally, I've baked something this summer/fall.....I haven't since the spring. It's been too hot and since we've moved into a studio apartment, we have a small kitchen. BUT this recipe is super easy and doesn't take a lot of ingredients.
