Healthy and Delicious Cooking

For some, Fall represents dark days and the horror of winter to come. for me, it evokes comfort and warmth. Orange, burgundy, yellow and mahogany blanket the land, blaze upon the treetops, and dance against the sky. This is the time of year when I buy pumpkins of all sizes, and decorate the house with gourds of all types and colorful Autumn  leaves. Most of my family and friends consider me nutty, but I dont care. I welcome Halloween, and all the ghosts, witches and monsters that grace my door. Then October ends, and all those pumpkins need to be cook! Luckily my family likes pumkin, and it freezes beautifully. We cut them up and divide them into 1 pound bags. During the course of season we make soup, lasagna, muffins, pumpkin with black-eyed peas, pumpkin enchiladas, and the list goes on and on. believe it not, each dish is distinctly different from the other. Fall brings simmering soups and stews to brace us for the winter to come, and Pumpkin Soup is usually the first of the ...