Bringing some Style to K-land!

So, I have decided that I have no shame, so why not show off my fancy winter duds?

These were given to me 2 days before I left NC as kind of an inside joke between me and the McAllister family.  If you can't tell what the print is on the pajamas, let me help you out:  cowboys and cacti.

The nice thing is, these guys are flannel and warm.  When your concrete house has no heating, it's kinda nice for your clothes to keep you warm.  Plus I have my matching pillow accessory!

Let's hope these duds keep me warm when January rolls around!

Quince!

 This is a quince.  (pronounced "kwins")

It's a fruit that I've heard of often in the US (because of my dad liking hard to find foods), but I'd never seen one until just the other day.  And I ate it too!  I hear it's the most expensive fruit you can buy here in K-land.  It's a kind of like a pear and kind of like an apple.  But it's also a little bit fuzzy like a peach.  Really, it's too sour to eat by itself, so I only got through half of it.  The family that gave me one to eat also gave me one to take home.  So I decided to make something with it:

 Applesauce!

We often have a lot of apples.  It takes a little bit of time, but I cut up probably 15 apples and that one quince and made some applesauce.  (Of course, the picture above is the "before cooking"picture).  In all, I think it ended up tasting pretty good.  But you know the best way to use a quince???

Quince jelly!

Okay, I didn't actually make quince jelly, but if I could, I would.  For now, I'll just dream about it.  Anyways, tomorrow being Thanksgiving, I think I'll have plenty of food to fill my plate.  As long as I don't end up in a  food coma, this blog will eventually get updated again.  Bye!