School is back in session and I am becoming more and more busy.  Therefore, I am going to take a break from blogging for a while and concentrate on my personal, professional, and educational lives.

Whenever I think of the fall, I think of winter squash, more specifically butternut squash, sweet potatoes and turkey.  We received butternut squash in our co-op box this week.  We love fresh vegetables and we can not eat them fast enough before they go bad; therefore we freeze most of  the ones we receive.  Below is how you do a step by step on how to freeze butternut squash.

1. Turn your oven on to 350F.

2. Cut the stem off of the butternut squash.

3. Cut down the center of the squash.

4. Take a tablespoon and scoop out all of the seeds and pulp.

5. Place on a cookie sheet.

6. Place the cookie sheet into the oven for one hour.

7. Take cookie sheet out of oven, let the squash cool off

8. If you want to puree, take a spoon and scoop out squash into blender and puree (I placed in a food processor).  Then place into ziploc bags and freeze

9. If you want to keep in chunks, take a knife, cut squash into sections, peel off skin, and place back onto the cookie sheet.  Once onto the cookie sheet, place into freeze, freeze chunks.  After a while, place the frozen chunks into a ziploc bag, label and place back into the freezer.  This will allow you to have frozen chunks of butternut squash without them being stuck together.

It is finally September, but the weather still feels like summer.  I can’t wait until I am able to crack out more sweaters and jeans!  I am very much of a jean person.  Big Surprise there!   This outfit was designed to get me into the fall or autumn spirit without making me so utterly hot when outside.

One of my biggest down falls is lack of accessories.  I am still trying to work with them and gain new perspective of using them in outfits.  I bought this necklace at JcPenney’s on the clearance rack.  It definitely adds a little something to the whole outfit.

Shirt: One Clothing via Ross

Sweater: Target

Shorts: EBay

Sandals: Rainbows

Necklace: JcPenney

P.S. This is actually an outfit I wore yesterday!