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    A week or so ago, I shared my experience, (and recipe), for Pumpkin Dinner Rolls and my attempt to make them look like little pumpkins on this post. I mentioned to you that buying a mold might me the easiest way to get the shape.  So, I went ahead and bought the mold and gave it a try!  

     Today, I'm posting on Lindsey's behalf! She had some glitches with our site, which was unfortunate because she was so excited about this pumpkin post! 
      As you know, if you have been following us, Lindsey loves pumpkins!  Not just pumpkin spice and not only during the Fall, but she loves them all year round.  She is one of pumpkin's most devoted fans.  It's no wonder then that this year she grew her own pumpkins in her garden and was thrilled with the resulting beautiful fruit! (From Google: "A pumpkin, from a botanist's perspective, is a fruit because it's a product of the seed-bearing structure of flowering plants. Vegetables, on the other hand, are the edible portion of plants such as leaves, stems, roots, bulbs, flowers, and tubers.")  Aside from the many pumpkin recipes that we have already shared on the blog, she decided to make this wonderful, comforting recipe for Pumpkin Stew, made in a Pumpkin! 

     There goes another Halloween!  I hope yours was terrific!  We didn't get a lot of trick or treaters on the big night, but on the Saturday before, we went to a party at the church with some of our kids and grandkids.  It was a lot of fun!
      There is always a chili dinner at that yearly party, and my son made some terrific homemade chili and some really tasty cornbread muffins to share.  These muffins were really flavorful, and because my son made them, they even had bacon in them!  He made a huge double batch, so there were quite a few left afterwards that we came home with.  For some reason, all of the leftovers were left at my house for my husband and I to eat.  Just the two of us...So, being the way that I am, I couldn't allow these great muffins to go to waste and I decided that a tamale pie sounded like just the thing to make to use them up!