The Teacup Bouquet

What do you do when you Thanksgiving is over and you have 5 beautiful pumpkins left on your front porch?   Make a Frosty  Then what do you do when Christmas is over and you have a Mr Frosty?   Make some pumpkin bread!  https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pumpkin-bread-recipe-1911283 Even though my pumpkin was a big guy instead of the small kind he reccommended, it still turned out delicious.  The pumpkin seeds didn't work out for me.  I toasted mine but they just were big and chewy, not crunchy at all.  Maybe too old?   I added walnuts instead on next batch - superb!  Watch the video if you get a chance and follow his directions on creating something like an emulsion with the eggs, sugar, and veg oil and vanilla extract.  It was a new procedure to me, but I think it made a big difference in the bread.  Like he says, most recipes put the sugar with the dry ingredients!

We went visiting on their street, the poor's street, where my great Aunt Virgie lived .  I remember it as a big house  but a raw house.  No paint outside or inside, and it was very weathered with the gray dried out look, only age can bring to a wood house.  I don't know why, but I thought it was big.  I don't remember seeing any part of it but the sagging front porch and the kitchen.  There were a lot of kids running around there, in and out, slamming the front door.  Aunt Virgie and Uncle Hershal were sitting on the porch, always, when we went there. Momma and I sat down on one of the chairs there on the porch.  People used to have extra chairs out on their front porch for people to sit on whenever they stopped by. l didn't feel connected, even though they were family.  Delilah might have been the closest girl to my age, but I guess she was already thinking about marriage because I remember her ending up down the street with a fami...