helpful tips from my kitchen!

[moominmolly]

[1] If you've had a long hard day, the kind where you can just barely make it in the front door with your groceries (even though people are helping you with that last bit), don't drown your sorrows in a whole big container of cottage cheese. Just don't. Go for the ice cream, or something, instead. In the end, you'll be happier, and you'll probably waddle less.

[2] If you feed 1/3 of your pumpkin muffin batter to the floor, try to be pleased that the remaining batter -- that's right, the stuff you were just staring at and wondering whether it'd make a really flat loaf, or what -- just so happens to precisely fill up the emptied muffin tins.

[3] Butternut squash roasting in garlic and a bit of spice smells really good. As a bonus, it matches the pumpkin muffin batter on the floor.

(And apparently, it makes vegetarians come downstairs and ask, "what is that seductive meaty smell that smells so meaty and yet good?" "Uh, squash.")