I like pumpkin pie year-round, but when pumpkin spice season rolls around, I buy one loaf of pumpkin spice bread (think raisin bread, with its swirls of cinnamon replaced by pumpkin spice). It become a part of breakfast for a few days, and then I’m satisfied for another year.
I wouldn’t call my mom a bad cook, per se, but she was raised to turn pork chops into shoe leather and boil brussels sprouts, cabbage, and many other items…other things she made were decent to good.
Beni has a little sister named Inez. She turns up a few times. (And calls Petey ‘Sonaja’.)