Friendly Fill-Ins and Shopping Around the World

We're pawticipating in Friendly Fill-ins sponsored by McGuffy's Reader and 15 and Meowing.

1. I  would like to interview  Pope Benedict XVI.  Bill and I saw him when we went to Rome__.

2. I would like to be interviewed by _EEEK....I don' think I would like to be interviewed at ALL!_.

3. Halloween night was always fun because Bill would dress up in his horses head with his recording of a horse.  The kids loved it!      .

4. Once Halloween is over,   People seem to skip over Thanksgiving and go right to Christmas.      .

Today is also Shopping Around the world with our pal Bacon from PigLove

From Bacon's Blog:

This month and next month Shopping Around the World is being hosted by my brother Phenny  (thanks bro).

This month brother Phenny is asking for:

PUMPKINS

or squashes or gourd…anything from the cucurbita furmily goes…you can make a cake, soup, snack… whatever you like…

and the day for shopping around the world hop  is: FRIDAY OCTOBER 27th

grab your shopping cart, buy a pumpkin and share the prices of the things you used and the recipe of your pumpkin-dish

Low Carb Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse

Not Mom's photo

Ingredients

• 16 ounces cream cheese room temp
• 15 ounce canned pumpkin not pumpkin pie filling
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice or use cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves
• 1-2 teaspoons Pumpkin Spice SF syrup or sweetener of choice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. In a KitchenAid or stand mixer blend cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until whipped and fluffy about 5 minutes.
3. Taste and adjust sweetener to your liking if needed.
4. Pipe into serving glasses and top with cacao nibs or brown sugar sub .  Best if Chilled about an hour to set and thicken but still fantastic to enjoy immediately!
5. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

Cream Cheese  $4.28/ 2 pack (16 ounces)

Canned Pumpkin  $1.88

Heavy Cream  $3.24/ pint

Pumpkin Pie Spice  $3.99/1.12 ounce jar

Pumpkin SF or regular syrup  $7.99 for 750 ml bottle (Mom uses these syrups in tons of stuff)

We hope you try this!!!  We can't wait to see the other recipes!

Shopping around the World - Halloween syle

Today we're pawticipating in Pig Love's  Shopping Around the World 

This month is a free for all.  Five items of your choice for any meal or dessert or appetizer – it’s  your choice.

Mom has made this Pumpkin white chocolate cheesecake for years.  It's from one of the Low Carb Forums she belongs to/

No...this is NOT a picture of her cheesecake!! 

Beachgirls white chocolate Pumpkin cheesecake:

24 ounces Cream cheese 
1 cup Splenda or sweetner of your choice.   (I use Torani Sugar Free Pumpkin pie syrup)
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract 
1 tablespoon Pumpkin Pie Spice 
4 Eggs, plus 1 Egg yolk 

3 tablespoons Sour cream 

1 Can (15 oz.) of Prepared Pumpkin 
3 Squares White Chocolate (baking bar), melted in double boiler 

How To Prepare: Bring all cold ingredients to room temperature. With an electric mixer, combine the cream cheese and sugar at slow to medium speed, scraping sides often. Add all other ingredients except eggs and pumpkin. When completely mixed (with no lumps), add the eggs and egg yolk, one at a time, beating very slowly. When eggs are incorporated separate out one cup of batter then fold pumpkin into the rest of the batter. When pumpkin is blended, do not mix any more. Over-mixing the eggs is a contributing cause of cracked cheesecakes. (The leading cause of cracking is over-cooking, so donât believe any one who tells you it is normal for a cheesecake to be cracked; it isnât.) Always treat the batter gently. To the one cup of separated batter, add the three squares of melted white chocolate and blend. 


Add half of the pumpkin batter to a well greased springform pan. Add spoonfuls of the white chocolate batter, and then cover with remaining pumpkin batter. Swirl through with spatula to create marbling effect. 


Place the pan on a very large piece of aluminum foil, and fold the foil up around the pan to create a watertight barrier around the cheesecake. Then place the springform pan in an even larger pan and fill the larger pan halfway with water. This is called a water bath. It is a gentler way to cook the cheesecake. 


Place the entire water bath containing the cheesecake in a 300-degree preheated oven. Cook for 1 hour and reduce heat to 200 degrees for 1 more hour. Turn oven off and leave cheesecake in until the oven is completely cool. The cheesecake can even be left overnight at this point. Cracks can also occur when a cheesecake cools too quickly, so donât rush this process. Let it set up for several hours in the fridge, preferably overnight. 


Garnish with curls of white chocolate. 


Carbs will be less if you can find sugarfree white chocolate. If you don't want to add the chocolate, just keep all the batter together and make the entire cake pumpkin, it will work fine that way 

too.

So....here are the prices of 5 items at our local Publix Market:

Cream Cheese - Philadelphia 8 ounce $2.95

Pumpkin Pie Spice - McCormick $4.49 for 6-1/12 ounce container  

Sour Cream - Store brand on sale for 99 cents for a 16 ounce cup

Pumpkin - Libby's 3/$5.00 for a 15 ounce can

Eggs - Extra Large $2.89/dozen

Please keep our Daddy in your prayers today.  He has chemo #8.  He had a really rough time with the "easy" chemo last week and we hope this one is not even harder on him.

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