FOOD!

Here in the Pierce household, we love food. And since I'm the cook (and the grocery shopper) I like to make new foods when I can! I get 99.9% of my recipes from Pinterest, and 80% of the time I adjust them, ha!

But sometimes we treat ourselves and eat out! Our favorite place for a lunch date is in Buffalo at Saika Sushi. All you can eat fresh made to order Japanese. Soooo good.

With our leftover homegrown grapes, I decided to try making grape jam from scratch! I wanted to keep the skins but discard the seeds so that added extra work and little yield, but it turned out so good! Best Concord grape jam you've ever tasted.

Sometimes I make a big batch of Bolognese sauce, then I can use the extra for future freezer meals! This time I made a lasagna for dinner, an extra to freeze, plus some freezer meals with spaghetti squash I had cooked. Quick and easy lunch or work meals!

We also had some homegrown Golden Delicious apples left, so used several of those to try making apple fritters for the first time. Those of course were delicious!!!

One beautiful afternoon Nick and I packed a picnic lunch and headed up to Point Breeze for a date next to Lake Ontario.

The lighthouse caretaker was there, so we got to go up to the top of it for the first time.

At work one of my lovely co-workers gave me a dozen of her farm fresh eggs! I love the colors.

And with a few more of my apples, plus some fresh apple cider I made a delicious triple apple cider cake! Apple cider, sauce, and fresh. So good!!

I also finally tried my hand at making some "farm cheese". It's made with whole milk and it's not quite mozzarella...more like ricotta. It made quite a bit, so I ended making another big lasagna! So yum.

With the leftover whey I made some homemade ranch dressing, and some biscuits.

For another sweet treat I made the boys some Fruity Pebbles treats! Delicious and sweet!

And now the Halloween festivities start! Check back for more....