I have posted before about my Recipe Club, and I am excited to share what happened this month. My friends and I recently had recipe club at my house. The theme I chose for this month was Pumpkin. They were to make and bring a food item that had Pumpkin as the main ingredient and bring copies of the recipe to share.
Everyone brought delicious recipes. I made Creamy Pumpkin Sauce with Pasta as the main course. There was also, Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Monster Morsels, Pumpkin Dip, Pumpkin Cake, and Pumpkin Butterscotch Cookies. I couldn’t have been more happy with the results. Ladies were going back for second.
Creamy Pumpkin Pasta:
1 pkg. (16 oz.) penne pasta, uncooked
1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, cubed
1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
1/2 cup milk
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 tsp. ground red pepper
ground nutmeg/salt/pepper to taste
** I added roasted pumpkin chunks to the pasta
COOK pasta as directed on package.
MEANWHILE, place cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, butter and milk in large saucepan; cook on low heat until cream cheese is melted, stirring frequently. Add pumpkin and spices; cook until heated through, stirring occasionally. ADD pasta; toss lightly. Serve topped with additional Parmesan cheese, if desired.
Everyone brought delicious recipes and food. We had a great time chatting and eating, a great girl’s night out!! Here is what they all brought.
For a fun game, I cut open a small pumpkin and counted all the seeds. The closest guess of how many seeds this pumpkin held, got a prize: a pumpkin pie plate! There were 275 seeds in that little pumpkin, can you believe that?
I love that with a Recipe Club, you not only get to have a recipe and see what the dish looks like, but you get to taste it too. Yum!
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Marie, thanks for sharing the pumpkin recipes; I LOVE pumpkin!
OMGOSH..this is SO not good for me to read while I’m on my program. All of this sounds DIVINE!!! I need to start this in my ward. Such a fun idea. Thanks for sharing the recipes!!! SEE YA TONIGHT!
What a bunch of HOT girls! That was really fun and the food was really good. And you know that means alot coming from a picky eater. I can’t wait for the next one at Cassie’s.
You look HOT in that picture! :)
You look gorgeous in that pic of you and your friends! Such a fun idea! And everything looks so good!
Wow! how fun- can you email me the recipes of all that yummy pumpkin stuff?? I have a dinner at my house on the 23rd and it would be awesome to use some of those recipes!! Fun! Do the hubbys come to your recipe club??
Oh, and I loved your super cape- thanks for making/sending that to me! I appreciate it!
Email me at @gmail.com">mmpickett@gmail.com- I changed my email address!
Maire-
The recipe club looks like fun and you all look great! How fun that you have all stayed tight and in touch.
Your recipes look delicious once again and you never cease to impress me with your ‘go getter’ spirit and all that you are doing! I wish I had your energy!
ashli