I feel a little crazy. It's not a bad crazy. I just stuffed the pie pumpkin (following one of the recipes in the Spice Cookbook) to make the mashed/pureed pumpkin needed for a homemade pie. It feels kind of silly to do this, because I have cans of pumpkin available. This will use up the pumpkin and I will hopefully be able to make both the promised pumpkin pie out of it and this pumpkin gnocchi recipe. Possibly a little over ambitious, but despite my Grinch-like tendencies I get like this during the holidays, especially about food (sometimes I feel like I have the Yarn Harlot's problem with holiday knitted gifts only with cooking).
A symptom of this: I bought the Martha Stewart Living magazine based purely on the ginger bread cake on the cover. I want to use the ginger bread cookie recipe (which makes 6 dozen men) to make sandwich cookies with the eggnog frosting I have left over. I also want to make cuccidatti though I'm not sure if my small almost-galley style kitchen is equipped to become a 400-cookie cookie factory. Even with cutting the recipe in half that is a generous amount of cookies. This is about the time of year where I try to decide if I am making food for gifts for Christmas or making knitted objects. I usually end up going for the knitting even though it takes longer to make most of the gifts.
(I have people coming over for pumpkin foods, so there will be no squares today though I might end up trying one of the beaded crochet things I was thinking about earlier this week.)
