Magazine Mondays: Applesauce Cake

We got a teeny tiny taste of Fall last week- it only lasted about three days- but I made good use of the cool weather and took the babies on plenty of nice long walks. I also felt better about turning on my oven to make this delicious Applesauce Cake (recipe here) from Everyday Food. I love that magazine and I'm finally participating in Magazine Mondays a fun and relatively informal (I need all the flexibility I can get these days!) event hosted by Cream Puffs in Venice, a blog which I have followed for a very long time! . Anyway, this is an old magazine recipe from October 2005 which means that I must have gotten it back when I was in college and my life looked like this:


Don't worry, we didn't burn the whole forest down...I don't think... But seriously, about two months after this picture was taken (at my graduation party) I did this:


Then about nine months later I did this:

Sixteen months after that, I did this:


Now here I am with a three month old and 19 month old baking Applesauce Cakes out of old magazines that I kept telling myself to throw away and snapping hasty, out-of-focus pictures of them to upload to my sometimes interesting, sometimes bare bones blog. This is a delicious cake, easy to make, and perfect for welcoming Fall.

WELCOME!!

Well. Here I am. Posting my first post ever on my first ( well sort of first ) blog ever. I want this to be a mostly food blog with soft floral undertones of my quotidian adventures- ha! Honestly, God knows why I'm creating this blog or how much I'll be able to do with it. All I do know is that I usually have about an hour and a half each morning while sweet Helen Mae sleeps to do something- and by something, I mean something that I can do without leaving the bed so that my little gumdrop doesn't roll onto the floor during her nap (yes, she sleeps in our bed not a crib- but more on that later). SOOO this is it- we'll see what it becomes or how soon it disappears or if anyone ever even stops by to read it at all!