Trick or Treat or Time Warp

The first of the three Halloween traditions started when I was four years old.  My mother asked me what she should cook for dinner on Halloween night and I said, "Fish!"  From that day forward we have had fish every Halloween.  The second tradition was started by my father.  Each year he leaves out a few pieces of candy on the porch for the midnight trick-or-treater.  Something like leaving cookies out for Santa.  The third tradition is a new one that I started tonight.  Watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and singing, and dancing.  So, whatever your traditions are on this all hallows eve, may it be a happy one.    

ABC (Apples, Beer, and Cookies)

It may be snowing already, however I am still determined to check things off my fall to do list.  Here are a few things that I have done so far, followed by the to do list:

Apple Picking
Apple picking, apple cider, and apple cider donuts.  I have to admit as much as I love apples and apple picking I go for the donuts...and not even really to eat them, just to be pleasantly overwhelmed by the delicious smell of the donuts. ahh...

Pumpkin Ale Tasting 
Nine different beers, blind taste test, one winner.  My favorite was the Fisherman's Pumpkin Stout from Cape Ann Brewing Company.  I kind of want to try making a chocolate stout cake with it because I think it would be amazing....maybe I will add that to my fall to do list.

Harvest Moon Cookies
Every year my mom makes delicious decorated sugar cookies to enjoy well watching the harvest moon rise. We take a walk while enjoying the moon and then grab a seat on the porch and chow down.

The Fall To Do List:
1) Make an apple pie
2) Consume at least 5 different pumpkin flavored things
3) Make pumpkin seeds
4) Collect some colorful leaves and press them
5) Make an interesting sweet potato dish
6) Make a Halloween Costume (Bugs Bunny)
7) Hand out candy on Halloween
8) Decorate the house for fall
9) Plant mums
10) Put up the bird feeder

Happy Fall!
EM