Is it Fall yet?

 This cool weather feels like fall!  Can we now have no more hot weather?  I'm done with it!  Cooler temperatures have inspired me to bake more.  Here is a peach pie, having the strips put on.  That's a new gadget to cut pie crust and noodles with zigzag edges.  I love using it.

 Having some extra yeast dough, I made cinnamon buns with caramel and pecan topping.  That's only about a dozen nuts, broken and sprinkled into the brown sugar and butter in the bottom of the pan.  Even if your original recipe, that you bought them for, calls for a whole package of nuts, you can always hold out a dozen or so.
 

After  school, Eliyah made biscuits and we ate them while reading the last of "Farmer Boy"  Now we are reading "Black Beauty"

I have been using a syrup made of raspberries on my ice cream for several weeks, knowing that it wouldn't keep forever.  A couple of nights ago I poured it on my ice cream and noticed a peculiar texture, sort of slimy and my heart sank.  I tasted it and it had molded.  Yuck!!!  But I didn't want to throw the ice cream away.  I stood there staring at it.  Then I turned on the cold water and rinsed the two scoops of ice cream quickly and put them into a clean bowl.  They were a mite smaller but not harmed at all and I was happy to have saved them!
These are our menus for the week:
Sunday:  Large Shrimp cocktails( a dozen apiece) baked potato with sour cream, tossed salad, ice cream
Monday:  Salmon patties, cheesey broccoli rice, salad with tomato, canteloup
Tuesday:  Clam chowder, beef and hot pepper cheese, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, dark chocolate
Wednesday:  Salmon patties, cheesey broccoli rice, salad, dark chocolate
Thursday:  Pizza and salad, dark chocolate
Friday:  chicken Fajitas with rice, refried beans, salsa and tortillas, chocolate sheet cake with ice cream
Saturday:  hamburgers, garlic roasted potatoes, cake and ice cream.

We went to the grocery a week ago and spent $203.  I plan to visit the road-side vegetable stand in Ellettsville tomorrow but that expenditure will be included in next month's shopping trip.  It won't be much as his prices are very reasonable.
We are planning a family dinner for October and I am getting out cook books looking for something yummy. My daughter has suggested hot pasties which sounds very good.  I hope lamb is on sale at the butchers when I go.