Calendar time!

Finally, the calendar is out. If you go to the page and click on view pages, go to May. That is Alan's photo and me!!!

Yippee!

Support knitty and the free patterns that I love an get one for next year.

:)

Here is one I did not send in...

Here is a link to all the photos I liked from the shot.

Carved

We carved! We visited Northern Lights Christmas Tree farm yesterday. The field was full of wet, moldy, rotten pumpkins so we were nervous we wouldn't get good pumpkins. They charge a $5 fee and you have to pay for the pumpkins on top of that. Not a good deal, the pumpkins were not great, and one of the 3 did not have a single seed. Whaaat! I love my roasted seeds so this was tragic. The biggest pumpkin had no seeds. Turns out that you can get a pumpkin from Market of Choice, it is from a local farm called Me & Moore, it looked more orange, it was cheaper in terms of cents/pound, and no cover charge.

We also picked up a white Casper pumpkin at Gray's. A good deal with my Gray bucks.

Anyway, enjoy the pumpkins we carved. From left to right we have Ubi Recreated, Tiki Man, Jack's cousin John de'Lantern, and Ro's flying mouse.

BOO!

mmm... cheesecake

A Seattle friend visited Eugene on Thursday and we had him over for dinner. Chicken tacos and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert.

I found a recipe in one of my pumpkin cookbooks but I changed it up a bit. I made more crust and added more spices. It took 15 minutes longer to cook than the book called for so I was worried it didn't turn out. In the picture you can see the candied ginger topping. The crust is made from crushed ginger thins (Destropper ginger thins are so good, they even have chunks of ginger in them). The recipe called for ginger snaps for the crust so I figured ginger thins were close enough. The only problem was that I need 3 boxes of ginger thins to get enough crushed cookies for the crust.

The result was one of the best cheesecakes that I have made. Definitely worth repeating... perhaps even for Thanksgiving in St. George.