Green Beans and Peppers

SO GOOD! Terra, we did end up using the butter. The debate in our house was whether or not to use the olive oil. Martin wanted to do the recipe just as it was written, so we used butter. But next time we will use the olive oil. We used extra onions, but the flavor was amazing just with the salt and pepper. We were expecting to need to put in some garlic or something extra for flavor, but the peppers and onion really made them so good. I like to steam the beans enough to still be crunchy. They were so delicious, and again so easy! Hopefully we can get to the farmer's market to buy some more green beans this fall and make them again.

Pumpkin Roll

This was so much fun! I will agree with y'all in saying that making a pumpkin roll was intimidating. It turned out great though, and really was easier than I thought. We actually doubled the recipe because we were having more people for dinner than we expected. We made a small one and a larger one. Half of the small one was gone the day that we made it. We decided not to add the nuts to the recipe because we don't like them as much. We also used parchment paper instead of wax paper because that is what we had. We had absolutely no problems with the cake sticking to it. (Maybe a suggestion for the future) We would like to try it again, but maybe with a little less cream cheese filling. This is a yummy pumpkin dessert that tastes like fall!!! A definate new favorite in our house.