What I Made This Week: Applesauce, Salad, and More Pumpkin Muffins

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You guys are going to think I’m crazy with all my talk about pumpkin muffins lately. I mentioned it in the newsletter this week, and highlighted it in the What I Made This Week post from last Friday. We ran out of these muffins over the weekend and I didn’t have any all week long. This is not good. I’ve come to rely on them for quick breakfasts, and school snacks. So, I finally relented on Wednesday night and make a batch. Relief, we’re back in business.

My big recipe win this week was making homemade applesauce. And, it’s delicious! I can’t believe how easy it is to make. I need to take a few photos of the finished product, then I’ll upload the how-to and recipe.

And, drumroll … I made a salad with lettuce that we grew in our yard! Oh, this was so amazing. I can’t tell you the pride that you have for little lettuce leaves that you’ve watched grow from a seed. Just look at these lettuce leaves!

But, it wasn’t an easy process.

This is what my little garden looked like this summer. I can hardly stand to look at this picture. We went on kind of an epic summer vacation and were away from home for 6 weeks at the beginning of the summer. This is what 6 weeks of neglect looks like.

This is what it looks like after a massive weed pulling session. That was a lot of weeds.

And, here we have a layer of weed protection! I don’t ever want to see that many weeds again.

After we got this all set, we put soil on top and planted our little lettuce seedlings. They were so cute and so tiny. I wasn’t sure they would work.

But it did.