PUMPKIN PARTY!!

WOOHOO!! it's that time of year.. oh yeah!!
i have a few friends that i want to thank... they bless me and chris and have been dear and cool amigos* for years! (*friends in espanol!)
so.. i told them to get ready for a pumpkin party!! actually... just for me to deliver the 'party' to them!! :-)


here's the bread recipe and a few pics i took.. btw! the kitchen smells really pumpkiny! :-)
taken from taste of home magazine, dec./jan./1998 (i've been baking this one every year since this issue was delivered to our home on williams street... good memories!)

delicious pumpkin bread

5 eggs
1-1/4 vegetable oil (i like canola oil)
1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2 packages (3 ounces each of cook-n-serve vanilla pudding mix) i like to use Dr. Oetker Organic Vanilla Pudding... yum!
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt (i use less sea salt; it 'rocks'!! heheehee)

• beat the eggs in a mixing bowl.
• add oil and pumplkin
• beat until smooth...

• combine remaining ingredients
• gradually beat into pumpkin mixture
• pour batter into greased loaf pans (5 small, or 3 big... or, i like to do 4 small/not so full, and 1 big loaf, the 8inx4inx2in)
• bake at 325 degrees, for 50 -55 minutes or until a toothpick/sharp knife inserted near the center comes out clean
• cool

it is sooooo yummy! i know that lots of pumpkin dishes aren't very popular perhaps with kids... ? but this one is a real winner! Yea!

happy pumpkin day!!!