Two Autumn Recipes from Lyn

Hi! Today my dear friend Author Marta Perry was scheduled to share a story and tell us a bit about her new book out this month, Leah's Choice, an Amish romance I highly recommend. But Marta has had a death in the family so today I'm going to take her place. I hope she'll be available by next Thursday.

A favorite honorary niece has asked me to share my zucchini bread recipe with her. Also a group of readers on www.Goodreads.com Love Inspired Historical group are sharing autumn recipes. I want to share a recipe that is a life-saver if you have a lot of family and friends around the table at Thanksgiving who love stuffing! I always need more than I can stuff into even a 25 lb turkey.

So here are the two recipes:
1-Aunt Lolly's Zucchini Bread

3 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups raw zucchini, grated
3 cups flour
1 Tb each salt and baking soda
1 Tb vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts

Beat eggs. Add oil, sugar, & zucchini & mix well. Stir in flour mixed with other dry ingredients. Fold in vanilla & nuts. Pour into two greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 F. for about an hour (or until toothpick comes out clean). Loosen & remove from pans and cool on rack.


& 2- Lyn's Crockpot Stuffing

1/3 cup butter
1 cup onion, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
1/2 tsp. each poultry seasoning, salt, sage
1/4 tsp thyme
6 1/2 cups dry bread cubes
2 cups liquid chicken or turkey bouillon
1 can of cream of chicken soup (optional)
1 egg, well beaten

Saute onion and celery in butter till tender about 7 minutes. (Personally, I skip this step. I like my celery and onion firmer.) Combine all ingredients; add egg last and pour into crockpot. Cover and cook on high for 45 minutes. Then turn down to low for 5-8 hours. Determine if you should use all the liquid by the moisture of the bread cubes.
For larger recipe 13-14 cups, double all ingredients.

Hope those two recipes are of use to you. Our November has been warmer than our October. In our area of northern WI, October was the 7th coldest and wettest on record. Brrrr.

Like the squirrels that race back and forth on my front porch-deck, my dh and I are getting ready for the holidays and winter. Cleaning, putting away outdoor items, and bringing firewood close to the house. Hope your preparations are clicking along too!--Lyn

Lyn & Friends for a Great Fall Weekend

This past weekend my friend Author Roxanne Rustand visited me along with another friend who was a longtime food columnist who now is a photographer. AND WE HAD FUN!

We went shopping in Eagle River WI, which included garage-saling. When we stopped at one house, I spied a crabapple tree. The boughs were drooping nearly to the ground they bore such a rich crop. I asked and they gave me permission to pick a bag of this specialty fruit. The next day I rinsed them and cooked them down to juice. Then next day I made the juice into 9 jars of my ABSOLUTELY favorite jelly. And I'm not giving it away--since most people don't love it as much as I do!

And here's a photo of me and my daughter's cat, Tricksy. Roxanne is a petlover extraordinare and her blog is the "All creatures great and small place" at
http://roxannerustand.blogspot.com/


Good friends are one of God's greatest gifts. And pets are a close second. Soon I'll be guesting on Roxanne's blog. I'll give you a heads up. Yesterday, my dh and I drove up to the Kewana Peninsula in Upper Michigan. The colors weren't at peak but very close and the low mountains there made for beautiful panoramic views. It was a long day. We left at 7 a.m. and didn't return till after 8 p.m. But what a glorious day! This was our celebration of our wedding anniversary on Monday. A great gift for both of us.
What are your favorite autumn activities and pleasures?

The first post of the new blog

I love stories. I love to read them as well as write them.

I have waited to set up my own blog until I decided what I wanted to write about and read about.

I decided to write blog posts about what I love most Stories of Strong Women. My brand is Strong Women, Brave Stories because even though I write different types of novels, all of them have this in common.

I plan on blogging twice a week and Tuesdays and Thursdays. I will be inviting other authors of the different types of inspirational fiction to tell us about their own stories of strength, endurance and victory. And also about their strong heroines in their stories.

And I also ask that you share your own stories (without violating anyone's privacy. Please change names and places to hide identities. After all, everyone who surfs the Net are not nice people-you understand? )

But I would love you to share your own and your family's stories of strong women.

I just finished a manuscript and am doing my sorting and getting rid of clutter before the holiday season is upon us.

And I'll be starting another manuscript as soon as my house is "bustled" into shape.

So I will be starting regular postings the week before Thanksgiving--I hope.

Until then, I wish you a happy fall season.
Lyn