No - I am not going to write about girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes - because in my opinion, that would be just a little bit creepy.
But I am going to write about my favorite thing about fall: Pumpkin.
I love pumpkin so much, that I don't even limit this to a "fall favorite". To me, pumpkin is incredibly versatile - it can be used in just about any meal, entree, side, dessert, drinks - you name it, you can probably use pumpkin!
Personally, I am a fan of the desserts. I have a massive sweet tooth, and pumpkin desserts never cease to hit the spot. The chart topper is definitely pumpkin cheesecake - with rum brown sugar whipped cream. My mom makes this every Thanksgiving (and occasionally when she feels like being really nice to me). It is legitimately heaven in my mouth. Cheesecake used to be my favorite dessert, and now every time I taste a plain or other flavored cheesecake, it just isn't the same. Honestly NOTHING compares. This has become such a hit, that it has replaced pumpkin pie at all Gourley/Euler family Thanksgivings - including extended family that don't even come to our house anymore. I'm not a pro baker (there's not too much leeway when it comes to recipes, so I'm just not as big of a fan) but I don't think the actual construction is too difficult - you combine a can of pumpkin pie mix with the ingredients you use to make cheesecake. I think the difficulty comes in the actual baking - so thanks mom for making this perfect dessert!
Even though I don't LOVE baking, I do enjoy it, so last week I was just perusing my cabinets and noticed I had pumpkin and chocolate chips. What better to make than pumpkin chocolate chip cookies?! I searched the interweb and stumbled upon this recipe courtesy of cooks.com: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1810,154175-254200,00.html
The recipe was super simple and they are the ideal type of cookie. It's a cakey cookie that is the perfect level of fluffy. And it's not one of those cookies that is moist and fluffy only when it's warm. This cookie stayed moist and fluffy until they were all gone (4 or 5 days). I tried to bring some out to San Antonio to share with my team, and I was super careful with them since I knew how soft and chewy they were - but by the time I got off the plane, I had a huge glob of pumpkin chocolate.... mush. Naturally, I still ate some (just as delicious - I mean, let's be honest, it all ends up looking like that anyways) but was just a little too embarrassed to tell my team. Since I didn't want to eat the entire bag - mainly because I had eaten so many the night I made them - I eventually told them and gave them the bag of pumpkin chocolate mush. They loved it.
Besides sweets, I love pumpkin in just about everything. A couple of my other favorite pumpkin recipes are pumpkin risotto (which you can also put inside chicken - yum!) and pumpkin stuffed raviolis.
For all you loyal followers of mine (yes... all 3 of you) I promise to be a little bit more diligent about this!
Have a great weekend,
Aly
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