By Sheri Hopkins, Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone! The heat is on folks. It has been hot! Hold out, by the time you are reading this, cooler temps will be here. Y’all know I love fall. I have been looking at costumes for plus size gals on the internet. There just isn’t a lot to choose from. I may have to just wear my Charlie Brown Halloween shirt, find something to wear in my hair and wear my crazy earrings. I sure don’t want to scare any of the littles that come to my house trick or treating.
You all know I love the Andy Griffith Show. I was wondering do I need to change the name of my column? In the Andy episode, Opie has a paper called the Mayberry Sun. The paper isn’t selling, so Andy encouraged him to put more interesting stuff in the paper. Opie has a column in the paper called Mayberry after midnight. He reports about seeing a lady sneaking a dip of snuff, and how another lady is a blonde right out of the bottle. I could call my article Mansfield After Midnight and see what all I could write about. The most interesting story would be the famous town beagle that nobody can catch and he keeps getting into people’s trash on Wednesdays. I know too many ladies that get their hair colored out of a bottle these days, that would cover half my family. Ha, ha! They also quoted Andy as saying, “sometimes the preacher is drier than dust.” I doubt I would ever see my neighbor, Martha, out behind her fence sneaking a dip of snuff. Enough about my Mayberry obsession.
I have been talking about my nephew, the Judge, lately. If y’all only knew how funny he really is. If you got him, his sister, Kelly, his brother Jason (that passed away), my brother Larry and add me to the mix, we could have a reality show. One year at Christmas they were all together and the three teachers of the group were talking about math and methods to solve problems. They are chatting away and here comes Michael into the room getting in on the tail end of the conversation. As serious as he could be, he says, “have y’all heard about Mr. Ducks?” They all busted up laughing at him. He’s a nut. I am sure y’all remember Mr. Ducks? Mr. not OSMR LIB MR Ducks. Enough about my crazy family. I love them all and I am the biggest “duck” in the puddle.
Since we are getting close to fall, I am doing a pumpkin pull apart bread, and it is easy. It is made with biscuits.
PUMPKIN PULL APART BREAD
1 can flaky biscuit dough (8 count)
1/4 cup sugar
1 and 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup butter melted
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and coat your loaf pan with non-stick spray. Split each biscuit in half. Dip each biscuit in melted butter. In a small bowl, stir together the sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Dip each buttered biscuit in the sugar mixture until well-coated. Next, begin to stack each piece of biscuit dough, place a generous dollop of pumpkin puree (about 1/2 tablespoon) between each biscuit. One plain biscuit will form the top of your biscuit stack. Lift the stack of biscuits and carefully place in your greased loaf pan. It should fit just about perfectly. The cooking time will vary, you should bake for 25-30 minutes. I would check them after 25. You can sprinkle additional pumpkin pie spice and sugar on top when it’s done, and I would drizzle a little powdered sugar and milk icing on top. Enjoy, and have a wonderful week!
