First day of Silver Week vacation tomorrow! 5 days off in a row due to holidays on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Silver Week only happens once every five years so I’m lucky. I walked to the grocery store after school to get some baking ingredients. I had to use the pumpkin I bought before I left and it went bad. I went armed with a list of kanji for baking items. Not too many mistakes this time! I ended up with Canadian honey instead of maple syrup and a bread flour instead of all-purpose. I got some individual silicon muffin cups to bake in and started cooking dessert when I got home.

I felt so accomplished. I did two loads of laundry while baking the pumpkin in my toaster oven for about 30 minutes, started prepping the batter for the pumpkin muffins, and cooked dinner. Multitasking for the win. Pumpkin was successfully baked! Next step to try baking the muffins in my toaster oven. First batch I noticed as the batter rose it just stuck to the aluminum foil I had covered them with to prevent burning. So with the second batch I waited to put the foil on and they burnt a little. Either way, they worked out great and yummy. I want to make them again!