Bake Sale for Limes

Friday we had a bake sale for the Limes After School Program and it went really well!! We raised a TON of money!!  The money will be used to supplies, snack, and possibly rent for a building.

For the sale I made iced sugar cookies, blueberry muffins, and banana pumpkin bread.

I found the recipe here.

I changed a few things, I didn't use oats or ginger just because I didn't have them.

I was so excited I was able to use almost all ingredients from Grenada... fresh pumpkin, fresh bananas, fresh eggs, sugar produced here, flour I think was made here (or at least in the caribbean somewhere) cinnamon, and nutmeg that I actually found while hiking up to Mt. Carmel waterfalls!  I found nutmeg laying on the ground and grated it for my bread... amazing.
It turned out delicious and I'm so glad I made two batches so Lee and I would have some to eat!

I put the pumpkin, banana, and egg in the blender 

I make a mess cooking. 

mmmmmmm
Thank you everyone for helping out!!

Home cooking!

I'm still cooking.... every single day in fact, I just haven't been updating as much.. and this summer I'm afraid there's going to be less updates for this housewife, considering my house is being taken away.  But as of now I've made a few things lately that I'm pretty proud of!

1.  Jerk Chicken and Fruit Salsa Sub!  This is my very favorite sandwich.  They serve it at the Owl here and Lee and I love it so I decided to try to make my own version and it came out very successful if I do say so myself :)
To make the salsa I cut up
tomato, red bell pepper, watermelon, and cantaloupe -put it in a jar with some vinegar and honey and shook it up really good and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours.
For the chicken I just used a packet of jerk seasoning I got at the grocery store and mixed it with some soy sauce, lime, and oil. 

2.  Pumpkin soup and cream cheese sandwiches - pumpkin soup is a new addition to my cooking rotation, appearing about once a month... replacing tomato soup, which I like and Lee doesn't so much.  Some days I just really feel like soup and a sandwich!  When I made the soup I had planned on just having grilled cheese, but then I felt like something different so I googled sandwiches made with cream cheese and found one that "Kids Love!" haha sound like Lee and I so I made it & we did love it!  It's cream cheese with cucumber, carrot, and apple cut up in it & you could add nuts but we didn't have any.
ps. note my little cactus display and my magazine basket I made :)

3.  Texas Road House night!
Ok so the only thing that resembled Texas Roadhouse this night was the steak and cinnamon butter...  but it was still good, and you gotta make do with what you have!  We had, steak, potatoes, corn, and cornbread.  I forgot to buy rolls at the store so we ended up having cornbread that I made on the stove top... it turned out delicious, just a little stuck to the pan... and the cinnamon butter was soooooo good. I think I want some right now...
I just melted some butter with a little honey and stirred in cinnamon & put it back in the fridge to get a little harder again.
For the steak I actually marinated it in Italian dressing and soy sauce... some recipe I found online & it was great! not quite as great as Roadhouse, but close. 

and for some reason the photo is rotated the wrong way... how do I fix this?? anyway, you get the gist.

So...now I'm off to find something interesting to make for dinner tomorrow night!

Pumpkin Soup

Last week a friend and I went downtown and ended up at the smoothie shop, I have yet to go to St. George's without a stop there... it's so hot outside and smoothies are so refreshing!! but they also serve different soups for lunch (not quite as refreshing in the heat..) it was only 10:30 but my friend Chris is almost 9 months pregnant so it was lunch time, we asked if we could have a taste of the pumpkin soup because I had heard it was good... and it was! 
A couple days later I was in the grocery store and they had several chunks of pumpkin in the produce section, and it was really cheap! so I asked the lady who was putting the produce out how to make pumpkin soup.. and she replied in very Grenadian fashion with something like "just cut it up, boil it and add spices"
ok... so that's what I did! and then improvised... I added onions for flavor and after it had cooked for a while and was looking pretty thin I decided to add a little cream cheese and milk to thicken it and make it a little richer, and it was delicious!  Lee liked it and he was very skeptical about the pumpkin soup...
I got enough pumpkin to make a pot of soup for $4EC! that's like $1.50!
I found a website with several different recipes and I want to try a couple of them whenever the store gets more pumpkin in!  http://www.mom-mom.com/pumpkin_soup_recipes.htm
Hopefully pumpkin soup will become an autumn staple in our family.... or at least around the holidays!
I took a picture... but it doesn't do it justice, it just looks like baby food :)