A Ghost in My House

By Lori Powell

With a chill in the air and goblins on their way, I welcome fall!

Candy, although alluring in their tiny packets, are not my big craving so I am safe from temptation, at least for this holiday. My Halloween pleasure would be a devil’s food cupcake or a hunk of brownie, instead.

My house is one of many in my neighborhood that is part of a ghost walk this weekend. I made the ghost A-list due to spooky stories about the prior tenant and my own personal pleasure at hearing him (but not, thankfully, the pleasure of meeting him) in the night.

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Fall Memories – Candied Pecans

By Marilyn Hunter

When I was a little girl, we would pile into the family wagon (a Ford with “wood” paneling) and head to mamaw and papaw’s West Texas home for long weekends. Starting in mid-summer through the fall, my brother Eddie and I spent our afternoons gathering pecans from the backyard grove. We knew our efforts would be rewarded come Thanksgiving with Texas pecan pie.

Our boys may be years and miles away from my papaw’s backyard of pecan trees but I can still teach them the art of shelling and candying pecans.

Fancy pecans, candied with ginger and brown sugar, are a special fall treat. Package them in pretty jars and give as gifts, set around the house in small bowls as party treats, sprinkle over salads or mix with chopped fruit to sprinkle over ice cream for a quick and simple dessert. The boys love to snack on them all season long.

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Halloween Candy…Yum!!

By Lori Powell

After the autumn leaves comes the arrival of our spookiest of holidays, Halloween. I am ready for it this year with three bags of candy and I will be taking part of my neighborhood ghost walk. Since my town dates back to the 1600s there is a ton of history here and, well, some residents just have never left…spooky!

I am always hopeful that we will have a bunch of trick-or-treaters and I am always surprised the next day by how much candy didn’t get gobbled up.

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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups are Wickedly Good

By Katie Barreira

As a child, it was difficult to imagine anything more awesome than holding up adults for candy while in disguise. But I was lucky enough to have a pair of fairy god neighbors who sweetened the Halloween jackpot. More hair raising than the Pinsky’s haunted garage, more engrossing than Mrs. Feldman’s eyeball punch, the enchanted Victorian at 14 Ferncroft Road promised a special and, to my parents dismay, sizeable confection meant just for me.

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