Short, Fat and Slow

Big Man carries a .45 auto as his "go to" self defense round. It's short, fat and slow, kind of like this weeks update. But unlike the handgun, this update will not knock a barn door off with one hit. So there's that.
The only thing we can figure is, we are gearing up for Thanksgiving and the day to day stuff is getting pushed back to the small burner. We have been tinkering around with dessert things, which is our one picture update this week.
We saw a recipe for pumpkin cheesecake desserts, we had canned pumpkin, we had cream cheese, and Big Man had a lot of free time this week.
We started out with just plain flour, sugar and Amish cocoa powder, mixed it up in the blender until we had a firm paste, and pressed it in to the bottom of cupcake wrappers.

Then we mixed up the cheesecake part, with one cup of pumpkin and pumpkin pie flavor

Then we baked them at 325* for about a half an hour.

The recipe called for a simple chocolate topping, one cup of heavy cream heated to just before boiling, and stir in a cup of chocolate chips. We used dark chocolate because we're rebels like that. It was an alright recipe, but we didn't think it tasted like pumpkins or cheesecake. It was more like a black bottom. We plan on doing these again, only without the pumpkin and just go straight cheesecake.

While we are on the baking thread, Brother Kevin and family had a bake sale at their church this week, and they asked for a couple of buttermilk pies to donate to the sale. We whipped up two, and we understand they sold for a higher price than most pies, so we are proud we could help out.

One non baking food item, we roasted a salmon fillet one night for dinner. It's a whole fillet, so with the leftover meat, we made salmon patties and froze them for a meal down the road. If it feeds you twice, it's worth the price.

Tune in next week for a massive food related update. We like to "put on the dog" for Thanksgiving.
We ended this week with wings.
K&K