Sinus Headache? Tip:

I woke up with the gnarliest sinus headache this morning. The sudden drop in temp. combined with dry air always causes sinus headaches for me. I took Sudafed first thing this morning, and later ibuprofin (out of desperation) when my headache would not cease. I just had lunch....leftover pineapple-chicken curry (with extra spice) and feel INSTANTLY better. I had forgotten that eating spicy foods cause sinus headaches (caused by dryness) gets the juices flowing and relieves the headache instantly! <3

Here are some other benefits of eating spicy foods.

I am rarely without a bottle of Sriracha OR jar of jalepenos at the dinner table. :)

What I made today.

When I first awoke this morning, I thought that I would take it easy today.

I ended up cooking for 6 hours today. Ha. HA.

Home-made Pita Bread. 

Let dough rise.

Bake 2 at a time (total of 8).

Korean steamed pork buns. 

Which entails chopping various veggies into teeny-tiny pieces,

cooking the meet/veggies. Squeezing out alll the liquid from the

meat/veggie mixture. Letting the dough rise twice.

Rolling the dough out into 16 equal pieces, stuffing them.

Steaming in 3 separate batches (since I do not

have giant steamer). 

tzatziki sauce.

No, I don't plan to eat all that today! Tomorrow will be an easy day when I cook up chicken pitas. Yum. :)

Yum.

I made these the other day. Pumpkin Cupcakes. I had some left over pumpkin pie puree from a pumpkin cheesecake that I made a couple weeks prior. I needed to use this up! Here is the recipe I used. I halved the recipe for cupcakes and instead of using plain puree I used the kind with all the spices already in it (since that was what I already had opened) and skipped the cinnamon step in the recipe. I did add walnuts, but I could've done without, esp. in cupcakes. The husband said he liked the walnuts though, so I guess it's a personal preference! I personally don't like "surprises" in my cupcakes, I like them to just be soft.

Hope everyone is enjoying their fall thus far!

fall foods.

Opal Apples (a new variety). Crisp, juicy, tangy.

*AND this is a break through, bc I have for YEARS

hated apples, not because of the taste, but because

of the texture. So this is pretty amazing.

The only time of year I allow myself to buy Oreos.

For some reason, the hot-orange filling 

makes them absolutely irresistible. 

Other Fall foods I am looking forward to: Pumpkin Pie ice cream (which we already have in the freezer!), home made apple pies, caramel apples.