Flourless Pumpkin Pie

Karina's Kitchen in Seattle is where I got this recipe:
1 14 or 15-oz can pumpkin
1 1/2 cups plain hemp milk
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla
2 tablespoons light olive oil
1 tablespoon Ener-G Egg Replacer (I used one large egg and omitted the olive oil)
3/4 cup organic brown sugar
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
2 tablespoons tapioca starch/flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon or pie spice
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Cover and mix until smooth and creamy. Stop and scrape the sides of the bowl, if necessary to incorporate all of the dry ingredients. Bake at 350 until edges look crisp but it will take some time for the middle to set. This pie is best eaten after it is cool.

We added tiny apple stars on the top of the pie which made it extra fun!

Happy Halloween!

Will had quite a night-- quite possibly the latest night he's ever had-- yet still was up at 8am! First we treated the neighborhood and then we headed over to his friend Lane's house for some trick or treating among the huge homes of Capitol Hill. These homes were quite spooktacular and we were all so amazed we forgot to take pictures but I'm sure the photos wouldn't do justice to it all. At some of the homes Will just stood there awestruck and we had to help lead him away.

Halloween Train

Will and Lane took a Halloween train ride together wearing their costumes.

Hands On

Will and I went to a hands on farm today and experienced chicks hatching from their eggs, piglets, chickens, bunnies, calves, goats, ponies, ducks, geese, turtles, mice, kittens, and even peacocks! What was so fun about this farm was that you could just go into the pens and pet the animals or feed them little pellets of food.

Hit and Run

Here is Will watching our car getting towed away-- on a dolly because the back wheels were off kilter.




The night before Parent Teacher Conferences someone hit our car as they were leaving the bar near our house. We heard the loud crash at 2am and then the squealing of tires as they sped away. About twenty minutes later the police knocked on our door to let us know that they followed the oil leak and caught the guy trying to make a getaway. If you look closely you can see that he hit us hard enough to knock the car up onto the sidewalk. Paul was saying that had our car not been there he might have driven right into our bedroom!

It looks to us like the entire backend of the car is going to need to be replaced at least superficially, I'm not sure what the internal damage is. I suspect that since there wasn't a hit to our engine that the insurance company won't declare it a total loss. It looks to us like an expensive fix though!

Pumpkin Patch

First Slumber Party!

Will is having his first slumber party tonight at his buddy Lane's house. He is so excited and we are so excited to have a night to ourselves--- the first in four years!!

Until now I never really felt like we needed this but now that the opportunity has arisen we both pulled out all the stops and tonight is dinner at my favorite French restaurant and a movie. Then, of course, it is back to painting and basement work!