Fall, FINALLY!

I've been WAITING for yoga pants and sweatshirt weather and it is finally here!  Oh wait, no it isn't.  This finicky flip-flop weather is making KA-RAZY.  Last week the high (according to my car) was 49*, the next day it was 70* and by Monday, 78* - WHAT?  At least I've not put away my flips and shorts.

Anyhow, when it was actually fall-like last week, I made pumpkin scones - so delish!  I added dark cherries (from TJ's) instead of white chocolate chips and pecans.  I honestly believe they are magic scones as it turned Owen's frown upside down the morning I made them.  He was being a bit of a pill and rejecting all food (except for bananas of course) until I offered a pumpkin scone.  Maybe it was the sugar, but I am going to believe it was the pumpkin that soothed his little spirit!

Pumpkin Scones

From my dear friend Angela

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup solid packed pumpkin
1 tsp vanilla extract

Optional:
1/3 cup chopped white chocolate
1/4 cup chopped pecans
**I skipped these two and added 1/2 cup dried cherries.  For some bizzaro reason I just don't like chocolate for breakfast.  I know, crazy, right?

Instructions

Mix flour, sugar, spices, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.  Cut butter into small pieces and cut into flour.  Mixture should look like course crumbs.  In a separate bowl mix together the pumpkin, buttermilk and vanilla.  Add to flour mixture and mix until the dough comes together (don't over-mix).  Transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead gently 3-4 times (until it comes together), and then shape/pat dough into a circle about 1 1/2 inches thick.  Slice in half and then cut each half into 3 equal pie-shaped wedges.  Alternatively, roll out and cut with a biscuit cutter.  Brush with egg glaze (1 egg beaten with 1 T mil), and sprinkle with sugar.  Bake on cookie sheet at #75* for 20 minutes.

On top of the delish pumpkin scones, we went to the most ghetto pumpkin patch! 

There was a crazy creepy petting zoo with piggies, chickens, turkeys, goats and calves.  The piggies were certainly aggressive.

The turkeys were just about as big as O - I invited them to dinner but they declined...

Owen was not fooled by the saddle sitting on a bale of hay instead of a horse...

"I think I'll take this one.  I can carry it all by myself!"

Jeremy was hesitant to put O on the tetanus tractor...

Little Man is about 2.5 feet!