Pumpkin Bisque and The monster SPIDER....

The pumpkin bisque was a super quick recipe, that was incredibly easy. The only cooking required was to saute the onions. I was done with the bisque, put it in the fridge and Martin was still working on the spider. When he had the spider in the oven, he asked: "do you still have to make the pumpkin soup?" I can say that this soup had a great pumpkin flavor. Unfortunately, I didn't like it because 1/2 cup of brown sugar made it way too sweet for my liking. It would have been great, had we reduced the sugar content to 1/4 cup. However, Martin liked it and ate all of it throughout the week. I really want to try this recipe again at a later date with less sugar.



SPIDER MONSTER BREAD is all I have to say. Martin made this incredible bread arachnoid. He did a wonderful job putting it all together. He even made a spider web on tin foil with honey and powdered sugar for the spider to relax on. Oh and he made it into a black widow by putting cayenne pepper in a diamond shape on the spider's back. You may ask why we call this the monster spider... It quite a funny story. We couldn't find wheat bread at the store, so we bought white bread dough. I wish I had had time to make our own bread dough. Maybe next time. Anyway, we used the allotted 4 loaves that it told us to use in the recipe. It didnt really register with us that it would actually really be 4 loaves of bread molded into a spider. Next time we make this, we are going to use probably 2 or less loaves. Anyway, Martin started molding the bread onto a cookie sheet. We should have realized then that this thing was going to be a monster, when half-way through the process of putting it together, it no longer fit on the cookies sheet. We ended up having to make tin foil extensions to the pizza stone, just so the legs would have somewhere to rest. It took 4 hands to get it into the oven. We think it probably doubled in size while it was baking. As you can see by the picture, it pretty much took up the entire oven rack. Then there were the eggs. Even more bread! We ate the eggs for dinner and had a huge spider on its spider web. It sure looked awesome though. And tasted great. Martin ate the cayenne pepper part. YUMMY MONSTER SPIDER BREAD!!!