Birmingham Artwalk and Food

Friday night we went downtown to the Birmingham Artwalk with some friends. It was pretty cool. We had a good time and it was sooo nice to be able (and want) to walk around downtown Birmingham. A bunch of art galleries in a 6-7 block radius opened up their doors to display their art. Some had free wine and snacks too (yay). They had live music at a couple of different places and there were tons of people. *sigh* someday every weekend in birmingham will be like that. Unfortunately, (or fortunately) we'll be long gone by the time that happens. Anyways it was a pretty cool way to start the weekend.

I also cooked a lot this weekend so I wanted to blog about that. Saturday morning I made this pumpkin spice coffee cake. The recipe was for this sour cream coffee cake and I just added pumpkin pie spice to give it a little fall flavor. Definitely VERY yummy........but I still like my mom's better (Dad, if you're reading this can you have her email me the recipe?) I took some pictures of it but it tasted waaaaaaaaaaay better than it looked so I decided against posting any :) I made ranch oyster crackers too, which I had forgotten about. Yum. And last but not least for our "tailgating food" of the day I made pepperoni rolls. Double yum! They basically tasted like my calzones but just skinnier. Super good though when combined with ranch dressing, beer, and Penn State beating Notre Dame!