MEGA 'KINS: This afternoon, we made an annual trek up our hill to visit a neighbor's house. The local gentleman fills his front yard with massive pumpkins every year, and 2016 was no disappointment!
We sure appreciate his display, and others do, too, based on the number of visitors his place gets.
FEEDING TEENS: Saturday, we spent the whole day prepping food for the evening's activity. We had signed up with other families from a social issues class CJ takes to provide dinner for a program serving teens and young adults.
Called Teen Feed, the organization helps those in need in a number of ways, including by making sure homeless young people have access to a full, free meal every night of the year.
The meal our group was preparing was being hosted in the basement of a church in the University District. We got there about 5 p.m., right when a large windstorm was supposed to hit Seattle. There was real concern that we'd lose power, so our dinner had to be something that required no electricity. Sub sandwiches it was! We'd done most of our prep at home, including shredding three heads of lettuce, slicing 5 pounds of cheese, cutting 30 tomatoes into slices and using a mandolin to slice three huge onions. We also brought two kinds of mustard, two kinds of mayo, ketchup and sriracha sauce. That way, diners could have options on their sandwiches.
We also made some desserts. I figured cookies and cupcakes are probably a staple for their meals and so we wanted to do something different. I realized I had four boxes of seasonal cereal in the basement, and there was my answer! We made different breakfast cereal bars by melting marshmallows with a little butter, and then stirring the cereal in, and then topping each different kind in a different way.
We decided to turn our Pumpkin Spice Cheerios into little pumpkin patches. We used buttercream and a special icing tip to make 'grass.'
CJ and Annabelle enjoyed running the dessert bar and seeing smiles on many faces!
Good for you.
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