Successes and Failures

I always like to hear bad news first, so here's my failure: I tried to make pumpkin pie pops. Some time ago was my first shot at it and it didn't work. Second time around this afternoon was another failure. Now, I realize that when trying something new it may take 10, 100, 1000 times to get it right and I'm not willing to give up. Thankfully, hubby-bubs is willing to eat all my mistakes.

However--here's the success part--since the pie pops didn't work, I threw the remaining pumpkin pie filling in a pie shell and the Duffy's will have pumpkin pie for dessert.

We did take advantage of the lovely fall weather last night and grilled out steak and asparagus on the grill. I also made my favorite summer salad (recipe posted)! I love it when I'm frugal and I got a deal on the steak, which I cut up and froze in order to turn it into beef stroganoff on Wednesday, once the weather turns cooler.

Tonight it's lightly breaded chicken with quick risotto (one of Daughter #1's favorites). Again, I was frugal and bought enough chicken to make this dish and chicken chili cheese etouffee on Friday. The chicken is cut up and frozen and will be ready to go!

It's likely we won't have leftovers after tonight's dinner or on Wednesday so I'll likely fill in with a pasta dish--I'll let you know what I decide. Until later....