2 recipes for you on this Sunday in November just in case you're as much as a pumpkin nut this time of year as i am:

1.) pumpkin pecan chocolate chip cookies from a very cool and inspiring blog i also frequent. i just saw/read/found out that she, the blog's originator had a crush on john schneider all her life when she was younger too! i don't think she married a guy who sorta kinda resembles him though. oh but the cookies right. i didn't ice them, since we've been having enough sugar lately but ooh ooh child they are good. i thought they needed more bake time though in case you do make them.

2.) chili for dinner. i'm sure everyone has their own recipe already but this one uses 2 cups of wait, it may ruin it for most of you, canned pumpkin puree. trust me you don't taste just pumpkin, there's no cinnamon or anything it just adds to the overall warmth of the taste. and let's see i made a huge amount of other adjustments based on what commenters on the recipe/site said like i added a lot of Emeril's southwest seasoning (thanks to my brother, this was in my C'mas stocking a few years back. seasoning lasts forever right?), a lot of tabasco, carrots, different colored peppers, 1 small can of tomato paste, 1 can of kidney beans and almost 1 entire bottle of sam adams lager.