Fall Flavors (Picture This)...

I'm sitting here nauseous (as is the norm lately), thinking up a post and I can't get my mind away from some of my Favorite Fall Flavors. 

And I want to SEE all the things I'm thinking about so I'm going to find yummy pics, too! Ooooh, yeah!

 I LOVE Thanksgiving! The whole meal that we have is at the top of my faves list. Ours is usually pretty traditional and simple, just how I like it! Turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed 'taters and gravy, pea salad (one of my favorite things!), sweet potato casserole (among other things)...Oh! And we started a few years ago doing a traditionally baked turkey AND a deep fried turkey (if you haven't tried that, you're missing out...seriously!)...I'm hungry just thinking about it!

Okay, I'll be honest...our spread looks nothing like this, but I thought it was beautiful...love all the fall colors!

Then there's dessert. Pecan pie, pumpkin pie, fudge, and other miscellaneous sweets (we always experiment with new desserts). One of my VERY faves is this:

Pumpkin cheesecake...it. is. DIVINE. Geez, I want some now!

Aside from Thanksgiving, some other fall faves include homemade chili (this is actually mine I made recently...could have used a prettier bowl, huh?).

Homemade stew (not my pic, but sure looks yummy!):

My hubby's homemade hot chocolate:

Goodies I like to make like these (bad pic because there were prettier ones than these! Lol):

 And these:

The slew of candy the girls bring in from trick-or-treating (which my preggo self already can't wait for!):

Oh, and I can't forget mine and my hubby's famous duck gumbo (it's AMAZING and literally takes hours to make...and SO worth it!), and yes...this is a pic of ours:

Our recipe is derived from the one and only Duck Commander. Thank you, sir!

Gosh, I'll leave it at this...I am now hungry and ready to start making all these things! :-) What are some of YOUR fall faves?!

Confusion In My Mouth....

Alright, so for as long as I can remember I haven't been real big on actually mixing salty and sweet foods. I like balance, though, so if I eat a bowl of ice cream, I'm usually gonna follow that up with some chips or crackers or something salty, and vice versa. Well, you know those things that are like corn dogs, but it's pancake and sausage on a stick? You know, these things:

People dip it in syrup and just LOVE it, right? I have never been able to do it. I, to this day, don't like having my pancake syrup and bacon or sausage touch. Ew! I keep them very separate on my plate (or just off my plate). But the weird part? I will take a bite of pancake (drenched in butter and syrup) and then....dun dun dun...a bite of bacon or sausage right after that! Yup. And I like it! So why, when it comes to having it all wrapped up in one do I have such a difficult time? Well, today I got home from dropping Emily off and there was just something in my mouth calling me to try one of those weird pancake corn dog reminder things again...so I did. And every bite was a bite of confusion in my mouth. But I kind of liked it. What made it even better was the sip of coffee I'd take with each bite. Almost yumminess. Speaking of, one of my favorite things in the entire world is a Chick-fil-A chicken biscuit and hazelnut coffee. Take a bite, take a sip...SAVOR it. Heaven in my mouth, it is. Makes me happy just thinking about it. *sigh* Now I want one. But back to the weird breakfast thing on a stick. I'm still not convinced that I like it. It still kind of grosses me out. But today, that weird jumble of confusion in my mouth worked out. And I decided to blog about it. All I claim is that this blog is for my thoughts. Never said they'd always be deep ones. ;-)