Good Morning Sunday

 Good morning everyone, actually it is almost noon here already.  I have decided to have a very slow day today. It's cloudy and a bit dreary again as the weather is changing by the hour-wind and cold coming in.
   So I am playing on the internet today-going through photos, playing catch up, so I decided to share a post.
    
  We had a really nice day on Thanksgiving, meeting a young family that drove up from Texas to be with their cousins. Their cousins are our friends that make the best catfish and built their log cabin home. It was interesting as the gentleman was grown up in a family where the parents did not want them exposed to other family-weird I know, so he is working on visiting and knowing his family now that he has a family of his own.
  I had made the sourdough pumpkin swirl bread-recipe from Erika-and it turned out beautiful, so I took a loaf along to share with sourdough biscuits I had made as well.  Of course our hostess made so much food-ham, turkey, greens, baked sweet potatoes, corn casserole, dressing, macaroni and cheese (gluten free also for me), and lots of sides, pies.  
    What husband and I enjoyed the most was conversation with the young couple-very inspiring for me. Hard working, christian family that had allot of the work ethic and strive for bettering themselves that we were grown up under. A little politics thrown in, the school system today opposed to when we all grew up in (ours in the '60s and this couple now in their '30s). We don't usually get in discussions like this-but the day was worth it if just for that.

 A couple photos:

The sourdough pumpkin swirl bread-thanks Erika

I have been looking for recipes that are lower in carbs-this was a paleo recipe that I was amazed how good it was-no fat, the flour is almond flour, four eggs, spices, fresh pumpkin, I left out the nuts but added the dried cranberries, just three tablespoons of maple syrup. of course it did not rise as normal quick bread would but was baked through, moist, and delicious. If anyone interested I will post a link to the recipe.

I love pumpkin pie over sweet potato pie (Hubs is the opposite) so I made myself a pie with the fresh pumpkin, but decided to bake without the crust-no additional carbs and fats that way-after cooled in the frig, it slices and comes out just like a regular pie does. so was happy with this

Saturday I decided to make us a turkey dinner I made simple sides-steamed whole sweet potatoes, kale that I simmered, a big salad, and my own homemade cranberries and blueberries.
   Today-Sunday I am making a big pot of creamed turkey soup-from the cooked down bones etc from yesterday. 

     Of course I am enjoying the new Christmas movies by Hallmark channels-I think they started premiering these about nine days ago. There were a couple that I found excellent-the acting and story line, but others so so. 
     I have also been continuing to read the first Outlander book. I looked up when this was first published and it was back in 2004.  I still am enjoying the story very much-I am putting myself mentally into this time period and it really is so well written. a bit R rated in parts but if I don't want to read about some of the violence I just speed read over it. The author is describing the normal occurrence of that time period.  I think this Monday the rest of the books in the series will arrive.
   On Friday morning I dropped off all of my Christmas cards to be mailed. So a few of you should receive a card soon.

I guess I have written a long post again-Happy Sunday!!