tonight, i made potato soup and served it with slices of homemade bread–a truly good loaf! i think i’m getting the hang of this month’s bread recipe! for those who don’t know, grandma’s potato soup is sprinkled with crumbled bacon. so, i had cooked up two slices of nueske’s smoked bacon (the best!) and had them sitting on the counter beside the soup while i finished making dinner. i went down to get in some time on the stationary bike before i had to go to choir and to let the soup cook a little longer. when i got back upstairs, there was only one piece of bacon. i quickly thought back and realized that mr. happy stuff had been in the basement with me the whole time so… that left only the house goblins or the kitties. i found an incriminating chunk of bacon on the floor right beside the stove and another piece… right in front of maryann. she stole my bacon! and i only had two pieces! mostly, i thought it was hilarious. but i didn’t tell her that. we can’t encourage this type of behavior. but the soup was good even with reduced bacon-age.

so i took some of the plain yogurt i’d made and i added some pumpkin topping from trader joe’s and just a touch of maple syrup and…. yum! pumpkin yogurt! why don’t they sell this in stores? at least seasonally? it’s like creamy pumpkin pie filling!