No heat? Fire up the oven!

Please ignore the mess that is our cook top!

This morning, for the second morning in a row, our heat stopped working. Ish called the front office of our apartment complex and they sent Mr. Maintenance Man out to take a look at it. While we were waiting, the temperature in our apartment continued to drop. As I do not deal well with being cold and I actually had some energy this morning (it’s a first trimester miracle!), I decided to bake some pumpkin spice muffins using a recipe my aunt had given me. Our apartment warmed up to a comfortable 70 degrees by the time Mr. Maintenance Man finished fixing our heat thanks to the oven being on. We also now have about 32 muffins left after eating breakfast. I think we might deliver some to Ish’s parents and one of his sisters.

Pork extravaganza...

So my brother brought out a pork loin to be defrosted and cooked a couple days ago.  As is often the case we got side tracked so had to make a last ditch effort to cook it tonight so we didn't lose six pounds of pork.  My mom and I diligently worked to rescue the pork from it's impending doom.  The results?  3 separate pork loin dishes.  Tonight's dinner of roasted pork with roasted apples and sweet potatoes shaken up with apple cider, cinnamon, and ginger (yum!).  A basic mustard rubbed pork loin to be delivered to Nana.  Still cooking, there is the pork with green peppers, onions, pineapple chunks, and dried cranberries.  I wonder if I will still care for pork at the end of this week.