Autumn Decorations

Along with Autumn cuisine I also enjoy decorating for the season. Now I don't mean paper turkeys in every corner of the house. I like to spice my apartment up with a couple Autumn scented candles. I have one called "Spiced Cider" from Bath and Body Works in my bedroom currently. But my ultimate favorite is "Autumn Wreath" from Yankee Candle. I don't own it, my parents do. I absolutely love that sent.  Unfortunately there's no Yankee Candle store near where I live and I don't like the buy things on the internet.

Another way to decorate your home for Autumn is to put a nice fall leaves wreath on your door. It makes your home seems more inviting to guests.  Another idea I saw in Better Homes and Gardens magazine was to integrate fresh apples with autumn bouquet. Once Halloween and Thanksgiving rolls around I would lay off stuffing your place with pumpkins and turkeys it would look too over done. Maybe include a pumpkin in your center pice of you really want one.

Have fun decorating your place for the Autumn season but don't go crazy.

Fall Cuisine

It's that time of year again in Michigan when the crisp air sweeps in and the streets turn into an array of orange, yellow and red. This is also the time with cold weather food favorites come out. I personally love this time of year because my family's recipes come back. Nothing tastes better then a warm home cook meal on a cold autumn night. The three recipes I look forward to are home-made chicken noodle soup, pot pie with noodles from scratch and a polish sausage and sauerkraut dish. 

Perhaps the easiest one to make is the Polish sausage and sauerkraut dish. It's a great meal to have when there's not a lot of time to cook. There's only a few ingredients to this simple dish.

Two Links oF Polish Sausage
Jar of Sauerkraut
Cream of Mushroom Soup
(Optional cut up apples)

Then you take a large casserole dish and combine the cream of mushroom soup and sauerkraut together. The you cut up the sausage and lay is on top. If you choose to do the apple you can lay them on top or mix them together with the soup and sauerkraut.

Heat oven to 350 degrees, cook for 30 minutes. Serves three people with left overs. It's different then what you may be used to but it's yummy and I hope you enjoy it. 

Update

Ok so obviously I haven't posted in a long time. A few new things have happened to me since my last post.  I've been at my new job a the bank for six months now. I'm doing really well and I enjoy working in finance. I had a Summer sublet in downtown A2 which was great. Now I'm living in an apartment in the next town over. I'm living with a good friend of mine from college.

I dated a guy for a few months but it didn't work out. Which sucks but I'm moving on. I'm continuing my dream of moving to NYC next Fall. There's a lots of the same bank that I work at up there so transferring won't be much of a problem. I'm super excited about that. I've wanted to move to NYC for the last nine years.

I started a new blog today. It's totally different from this one. It's called SkinnyGirlFoodie.blogspot.com. It's about my exploration of A2 restaurants and reviews of them. I'll be reviewing restaurants if I'm in other cities too. I'm gonna use that to try and jump start a freelance career we'll see how well that goes.

I'll be updating more often now. I might still do make-up reviews but it'll mostly just be about my life and what's going on. So in short I'm back.