WOOLLEY’S STEAKHOUSE

October 2012

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15 Inexpensive Things To Do In The Fall Hop on your Attend a high school football or Replace the batteries in the bike and soccer game. smoke detectors. head to a bike trail, if Visit an apple orchard. Make some salsa from the one is Make caramel apples. tomatoes in the garden. available. Rake leaves for an elderly or Go for a nice drive to enjoy Have a sick neighbor (or yourself!). the colors, and pull over and bonfire in have a picnic along the way. the back- Clean out the gutters. yard. It doesn’t have to be Get an early start on huge or anything. It is a great Shop for end-of-summer Christmas shopping. Take way to reconnect as a family. clothing sales. advantage of all coupons and

Plant some mums and bulbs. Find some new crock-pot sales now and spread your However, to greater ensure recipes and give them a try. spending over months your mums will survive the This can be a money saving instead of a couple of weeks. winter, plant it in the ground activity too. If you can find a ASAP after buying it as number of crock pot recipes opposed to leaving it in a pot you can start in the morning on the porch. and then eat for dinner, it should make quite a dent in Gather up the kids, buy a your overall food budget. pumpkin, and bake a pumpkin pie from scratch.

Woolley’s on Tap

Fall is here and with it a hops are bold and pre- hops offer hints of citrus, seasonal ale, Red Hopto- sent with a distinct, tickling the nose, while ber. Shining like autumn piney flavor while the the tongue carries a sub- leaves in a globe glass caramel malt and tle, roasty tone that pairs this beer pours a dark roasted barley provide a pleasantly with the and lovely garnet as it backbone to stand Red warming bite of bitter. builds a bright, inviting Hoptober upright. Cen- Red Hoptober is perfect head. The Eldorado tennial and Cascade for shortening days and campfire nights. Page 2 Newsletter Title

FUN FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN

• October 31st in North America, candy bar being the most popu- • Around 50% of adults in the U.S. around $3 billion is spent every lar. will dress up for Halloween and year on Halloween costumes abut 67% will attend • Halloween is the second alone a Halloween party or most commercially success- go trick or treating • Haunted house attractions bring ful world-wide after Christ- with their children. in about half a billion dollars an- mas. nually. • The most popu- • Around million children, in lar costume for • Halloween candy sales average the U.S., between 5 and 13 adults is a witch. The around $2 billion per year in the go trick or treating every most popular cos- United States. Chocolate candy year, which is around 90% of tume for children is a bars are consistently rated as the all children in that age princess. #1 treat to get, with the Snickers group.

HOW TO CARVE A PUMPKIN Carving a pumpkin is really pretty pumpkin should match the shape easy. With a few short, straight of the design you have in mind. The original cuts with a knife, you can make Or, you can pick your pumpkin triangular eyes, -a nose and a first and decide on a design that jack-o'-lanterns were toothy mouth. The result is a face will suit it later. You can also try carved from almost anyone can recognize, carving a white pumpkin, a butter- even if you just draw it on a piece nut squash or a gourd in place of a turnips, potatoes of paper. It's the face of a jack-o'- traditional orange pumpkin. or beets lantern. Your pumpkin should sit on a flat But carving a really memorable surface without rolling over. Its jack-o'-lantern can take a little skin should be free from cuts or and press the area around it with more planning. Sometimes, you can do it with the same knives abra- your finger. If the you'd use to carve a basic face. sions, pumpkin is soft or if Other designs, though, require and its the stem pulls free, it extra tools and extra time. This stem has started to rot, guide will give you a good idea of how to carve jack-o'-lanterns in a should and you should variety of sizes and styles using a be choose another one. range of techniques. about Once you get your two pumpkin home, use Whether you want to create snag- inches a damp cloth to re- gletooth grins or elaborate (five scenes, the first step in carving a move any dirt from good jack-o'-lantern is selecting a centimeters) long. Before purchas- the surface, and pat the pumpkin good pumpkin. The shape of the ing a pumpkin, tug the stem firmly dry. Page 3

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients • 1cup canned pumpkin Directions • 1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate • 1 cup butter, softened • In a bowl, cream butter and sug- chips • 3/4 cup sugar ars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar flour, oats, baking soda and cin- namon; stir into creamed mixture • 1 egg alternately with pumpkin. Fold in • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Chocolate chips. • 2 cups all purpose flour • Drop by tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at • 1 cup quick cooking oats 350 degrees for 12-13 minutes or • 1 teaspoon baking soda until lightly brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon Pumpkin-Chocolate Cheesecake Bars

Ingredients Directions Whisk chocolate mixture into the 1-1/4 cups of pumpkin mixture. 1 1/4 cups gram cracker crumbs 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Pour over crust. Bake for 15 mins. Lightly grease a 13x9x2-inch bak- 1/4 cup sugar ing pan; set aside. In a medium 4. Carefully pour the remaining pumpkin mixture over the choco- 1/3 cup butter, melted bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and 1/4 cup sugar. Stir in late layer. Bake for 40-45 2 8ounce packages cream cheese, the 1/3 cup melted butter. Press mins.more or until filling is puffed softened mixture evenly of the prepared and center is set. Cool on a wire rack for 30 mins. 1 3/4 cups sugar baking pan; set aside. 5. In a small bowl, combine sour 3 eggs 2. In a large bowl, combine cream cheese and the 1 3/4 cups sugar. cream and 1/4 cup sugar. Gently 1 cup canned pumpkin Beat with an electric mixture on spread over cookies. Cool com- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice medium speed until smooth. Add pletely. eggs, one at a time, beating on Cover and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla low speed after each addition just chill for at 1/4 teaspoon salt until combined. Beat in pumpkin, least 3 pumpkin pie spice, vanilla and hours. Cut 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut up, salt at low speed just until com- into bars. or 1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces bined. Remove 1 1/4 cups of the Before 2 tablespoons butter mixture. serving, sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar 3. In a small saucepan, combine the with 6 ounces of chocolate and the 2 Grated nutmeg nutmeg tablespoons of butter. Cook and and or chocolate curls. Milk chocolate curls stir over low heat until melted. We want to hear from you, we understand that you are guests and the rea-

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know this is the best in town. Speaking of upcoming holidays, if you are

planning an upcoming holiday party Woolley’s would love to be that

special spot to celebrate!

David L. Breen

Director of Food and Beverage Harvest Fruit Display CEC, CFBE

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