I'm Spicy

Hello.  My name is Heather and I have a problem.

I'm a spice-aholic. 

Would you believe that's not even all of them?

And would you believe that only two of those jars are doubles?  Its true.  I own two jars of basil and two jars of ground cloves. 

The rest are completely different, individual, non repetitive herbs and spices.

Why?  Because like I said, I'm a spice-aholic.  During this time of year all the spices go on sale.  Some are even buy one get one free!  How can I pass that up?  Some people have shoe addictions, others have jewelry addictions....I have spice additions.  What can I say?  I like flavor.

Turkey Bread!!

Because you asked, and because I'm a people pleaser...here are the step-by-step instructions to make your own turkey....bread.

Start with a ball of bread dough.  Any kind you like.  We love french bread so most (OK all) of my bread creations are made from french bread dough.  I love, LOVE, LOOOOVE my breadmaker, so I always throw the ingredients into the breadmaker and put it on the 'dough' setting.  It does the work for me so I can go shopping for coordinating outfits for our upcoming family portrait.  And then grocery shopping.  In two hours!  Because I got to go ALONE!!  Normally I would have milked this opportunity for as many hours as I could before recieving the inevitable text from my husband.... "ETA?" 
But I had bread dough to come home to.  And I was already 45 minutes late...Ya, I was shocked, too. 
Back to the bread.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins with Pecan Struesel

I woke up with a cold today :(  My kids dragged me out of bed at 7:27 asking for breakfast...I guess they deserve to eat.  So I poured them some cereal and thought about the tasks of the day...

there was laundry....................nah

oh, and my kitchen needs to be mopped!........................nah

the toilets are looking pretty bad.............................definately not.

So what am I willing to spend my limited energy on?  Then Julia says, "Mommy, what kind of muffins can you make?"

Without thinking too hard about it, I respond, "Pumpkin."  Well, then.  I guess its settled.  I'm making muffins.