Autumn baking :) Butternut Squash Pie Recipe

By popular request here is my latest recipe to a delicious creation...Butternut Squash Pie.

What you will need:
  9" or 9.5" inch glass baking pie dish
  pie crust; pre-made or you can make your own. Great quick and easy recipe here:
 ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/paulas-perfect-pie-crust-recipe/index.html )
  1 1/2- 2 cups baked mashed organic butternut squash
  3/4 cup creme fraiche  or organic sour cream
  3/4 cup sugar
  3 organic eggs
  1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  1/4 teaspoon salt

 Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

Place all the ingredients into a mixing bowl and whisk thoroughly. Then pour mixture into your pie crust and bake for 45-55 minutes depending on your oven. When pierced with a knife it should come out clean as an indication that your pie is done. Let cool and enjoy with a generous dollop of homemade whipped cream!

Remembering the thrill

So last week my husband made me the ultimate surprise by gifting me with a NokiaD90 digital camera. Our latest digital camera was beginning to slowly but surely die on us and was really frustrating me with its shortcomings. So yes I was expecting a new standard point and click camera for our daily needs as a young family. I did not expect my husband to go all out and getting me such a professional grade little jewel :)
Let me just say this camera can point and shoot just great and super quick so I never miss a movement again! However, it wasn't until I went into manual mode that I remembered what taking pictures was all about to me. The control of the aperature was a dream I longed for ever since I stopped using my regular camera and moved to a digital one. The colors are vivid, the auto functions are brilliant and yes again it is so super quick! On my very first picture I said Ahhhh; this is what a camera should do! On my 90th or so shot I was in love with photography all over again.
(Here are some shots starring our son)

March 31st

I haven't worn my watch,
since the 30th of March.
The day my water broke
On the last morning of March

I look upon it gleefully
The symbol of time passed.
As it lies there happily,
Unwilling to move on.

Its arrows stopped and silent,
the date, forever frozen.
To mark the day my life did alter
Forever then, forever after.

A Game

This is a game I bet,
You can not care for me.
I am a toy for your huge hands
Which drop, as soon as they do hug.

You bounce me on your knee,
But soon your mind will wander
and there I am still bouncing,
Without your knee's support.

It is a joke I know,
But somehow I'm not laughing.
I know the subject of your joke
Is no one else but me!

*2003-2004*

The quiet isn't as maddening

The quiet isn't as maddening
as I have always known it to be.
For really two halves of one being
rarely must check with each other.

Companionship, can be,
as quiet or loud, as one wishes.
But really no words need be said,
if the souls have spoken already.

With time Love grows steady & deeper
as serene as the flow of a river
once it gets over the falls;
the trepidations of lust & the quiver.

So silence, is not to be feared
It can, be rather rewarding,
for two halves now joined as one being
Do ponder with only one mind!

The Sweetest things

So many lines on paper
They all do come to my own lips,
But hear them you may not
For you have chosen not to!
So I persist to say these words
Not in the air but paper,
They're all the sweetest things
That you, choose not to hear!