This time of the year just gets me in the mood to stay in the kitchen. Even though the temp outside is still in the 90’s, in my mind, it is fall and the fall decor has already found it’s way into my house. The fall trees are up and the mums and croton’s have taken the place of the begonias outside. If you are like me, and just enjoy having a little more time with the extra lights around the house, let me encourage you to go ahead and get those little Christmas trees out of the attic and get them decorated with fall swags, leaves, pumpkins and fall flowers filling in between the branches. They sit right inside our front door and even the neighbors have told us that they enjoy driving by and seeing the lights up. I was just never satisfied with the 3 or 4 weeks of Christmas lights. So now I have them from Sept through Christmas, just changing out the decor around Thanksgiving.
Today, I am preparing lunch for some ladies tomorrow. I had promised them a real Southern meal of Paula Deen Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed potatoes, green beans and chocolate cream pie, so that is the menu tomorrow. Just finished the chocolate cream pie with whipped cream and since we are having a few more than expected, am headed off to bake a chocolate sheet cake, just in case.
Chocolate Castles 