Spaghetti Squash with Red Sauce

Baked the Squash, made a simple red sauce with Italian sausage over low heat to allow the flavors to all come together. Turned out pretty good.

Hot honey Beer Braised Chicken with Butternut Squash (experimental)

I had forgotten this was on the list, and was kind of set on pizza, so delayed. And between the time that I put this on my “things to do” they formalized and published the recipe.

Chicken And Corn Chowder with Sweet Potatoes

I didn’t buy the corn muffin mix (swaps documents, adds to grocery list), so Delayed!

Smokin Mac N Cheese (With Pumpkin)

This took a bit of time to get done, I admit I wasn’t actually working at a quick pace. I made some adjustments. Added Jalapeño powder, instead of cayenne, because I didn’t have any. I also added a can of pumpkin puree, which made it a bit more liquid than the recipe would normally be, but even so, it came together well. I adjusted a couple of other things up a bit as well. Turned out pretty good, a little heat and complexity.

Brats

Good as always.

I bought a few pie pumpkins. I prepped the pumpkins on the Sunday. One of them didn’t look quite right, and after a bit of googling, found out that it probably wasn’t good, so I tossed it. I ended up with about 2.6 pounds. Not enough to make 3 loaves or 6 smaller loaves, so I ended up just making 4 mini loaves. Since our team lead, who has been out for a bit, was coming down to possibly receive and award, I figured I’d make some mini loaves to pass out at the event. We, under her guidance and development, won the award, which was pretty cool. I wasn’t aware that there were other people at our company, that were up for awards too. Anyways, it was nice to do some baking, pass them out and see my team lead again. I baked the chocolate chunk pumpkin bread on Wednesday night so it would be under 24 hours between baking and delivery. I am happy that our team is allowed to be innovative, and are trusted with things that can be so important. As a side note, while baking, I finished off the existing Vanilla, Flour, and Sugar, but I was aware they were low, so I was able to just swap to the next one I had.