Blooming!

I'm very excited--in the summer of 2007 I took some cuttings from one of my Grandma's and one of Fred's Grandma's Christmas cacti. They didn't bloom last year, but at least some of the cuttings are blooming now. I guess that at least one of the cuttings is from a Thanksgiving cactus, not a Christmas cactus.


We've been busy lately. Last weekend we flew to LA for Fred's friend Josh's wedding. It was a nice wedding, but a tiring weekend. We both had long weeks at work, so it was nice to have a relaxing weekend at home. We did some errands, ordered our Thanksgiving turkey, and did a little bit of work around the house. Last night I used some of pumpkin puree I made last month to make a pumpkin bread recipe that I'd been wanting to try. (If you look up the link--I made the yeast bread, not the Trader Joe's version, although I made that a couple weeks ago, and it was easy and tasty).

Anyway, the recipe made enough for two loaves. We only have one bread pan, so I made one loaf and used the rest to make pumpkin cinnamon rolls. They were really good--one of the best batches of cinnamon rolls I've made from any recipe.

Fred liked them too. He pretty much likes all cinnamon rolls--except for the first batch I ever made for us. I made the mistake of baking them in one of my stoneware baking dishes that I'd used previously for a beef roast. Unfortunately, that left an unpleasant beefy taste in the cinnamon rolls. I've learned to only use that dish for savory dishes and use Pyrex for desserts.