Naturally Optimistic

My honey has requested this for his b-day cake this year....anyone got any recipe ideas? This is the kind of bundt cake with the pudding tunnel inside.... Hmmmm.....

Last night I made another new recipe. It's from Raesha's site and she got it from Dawn whom I don't know but I thought the recipe sounded good so we went with it! Steve loved it and I thought it was pretty good. I'm not a huge salsa fan (ie: I don't like peppers -YUCK) but I'm trying REALLY HARD to make things that are more interesting for dinner and not just to my bland taste buds. Plus I'd like to expand my palate a bit - even if it's one little onion flake at a time. I made homemade corn bread to accompany and we added our tortilla chips & cheese just before eating it (so it was crunchy!) instead of cooking for a couple minutes after the chips were added. We also used some sour cream on the side and it was a very good dinner. Another new recipe for the rotation - whohooo!

Here is the recipe for the pumpkin lasagne from earlier this week. It's from www.foodandwine.com - but when I searched there again, it came up with nothing...go figure... Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons olive oil 2 onions, chopped (I used about 3/4 of one onion....I'm not a HUGE fan...) 2 lbs Swiss Chard, tough stems removed, leaves washed well & chopped (I couldn't find Swiss Chard at my Cub so instead I used Spinach. It worked just fine) 2 1/4 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried sage 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg (I used the kind from my spice rack) 3 cups canned pumpkin puree 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan 1/2 cup milk 9 no-boil lasagna noodles 1 tablespoon butter 1. In a large nonstick frying pan, heat the oil over moderately low heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Increase the heat to moderately high and add the chard (or spinach), 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper...