Maple roasted sugar pumpkin, sage, and jack grilled cheese.

Totally a goodie for fall!

Take a sugar pumpkin destem, half, peel, and deseed.

Cut up into 1by1 pieces, add 2 tbs melted butter, and 1 tbs REAL PURE MAPLE syrup. Its a lot more expensive, but tastes so much better, especially when baking/roasting!

Place in a pan and top with fresh crushed black pepper (to taste)

You will also need fresh cut sage. 6 leaves coarsely chopped will do the trick.

For my bread I didn't use regular sandwich bread, I bought a fresh baked loaf of Italian rustic bread, very flavorful bread that is for sure!

Start grilling the bread, and add freshly grated Monterrey Jack cheese, top with roasted pumpkin, layered to fit the bread, then top with some sage, and add more grated cheese, then add your top piece of bread, and finish grilling. The pumpkin, maple, sage, and cheese is amazing flavor in your mouth! WOWZA!

Homemade Pumpkin Cheesecake w/ Pecan Praline Topping

Be sure that ALL of your ingredients are ROOM TEMPERATURE before you begin. It will make your cheesecake nice and smooth, if an item is cold, like eggs, you will have giant cracks across your pie, still edible, but certainly not as pretty!

Ingredients

Crust:

1 3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 stick melted salted butter

Filling:

3 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
2 freshly baked and mashed pumpkins (then use 1 and 3/4 Cup of mash) OR
1 (15-ounce) can pureed pumpkin ( FRESH IS SO MUCH BETTER THOUGH!)
3 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
1/4 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

For crust:

In medium bowl, combine crumbs, sugar and cinnamon. Add melted butter. Press down flat into a 9-inch springform pan, or if you don't have a springform pan, use a CAKE pan, you CANNOT use a regular pie dish, it will not fit, it will overflow horribly! You need a dish with at leas 2.5 inches tall on sides. Set aside.

For filling:

Beat cream cheese until smooth. Add pumpkin puree, eggs, egg yolk, sour cream, sugar and the spices. Add flour and vanilla. Beat together until well combined. Pour into crust. Spread out evenly and place oven for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let sit for 15 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 hours.

For my topping I used a Pecan Praline topping..WONDERFUL and simple recipe as follows

Ingredients

2 cups whole pecans
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
4 tablespoons heavy cream
Cooking spray

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a medium bowl combine pecans, brown sugar, and heavy cream. Spread into a square baking pan, sprayed with cooking spray. Bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes, or until coating is dry, and slightly crystallized, stirring once. Remove from oven to cool and stir once more. If not serving immediately, store in an airtight container.

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Video Game Marathon for Charity

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I will play 24 hours of video games if you donate to this charity! $1 $5, ANYTHING!! Would love your help and support!!

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If your a Hunter, then you have a hunting story!

Well we had one heck of a week last week! We were planning on being packed and up at our hunting camp on Monday, however the axle on our camper wasn't ready until Tuesday. So we went and picked it up, then had to put it on the camper, took a bit longer than we expected, it was getting late, so we decided to stay home, and go up Wed, the day before bow hunting opened, we would have plenty of time! However my phone decided to die, and we ordered another one,they over nighted it to us, so instead of leaving in the morning, we waited until the afternoon to go, (after I got my phone setup) We were on the road Wednesday @ 2pm..

We were about half way to hunting camp when Jamie noticed some smoke...he went and checked out the camper, and figured out that we had lost a bearing. CRAP! So we drove a bit further down the road to a Wyoming Memorial site that had a nice truck area off the road. Pulled in and Jamie got to work, Elijah Summit and I cheered him on, and hiked around when we got bored with that lol.

We then decided to unhook from the camper and drive into Labarge, which doesn't have much, and they didn't have an auto shop that carried bearings, we would have to go all the way into Big Piney, another 30 minutes down the road...we started sweatin, it was 4pm, so I used my handy dandy smart phone and BINGed Big Piney Auto parts, and called Napa, they were open till 530! Then I had to call over to the place in RS that fixed our axle, and find out the bearing size they used.

We got it all figured out and squared away, bearing purchased, and back to our "road side camp" Jamie got back to work, after a couple of hours of huffing and puffing, the remaining barrels wouldn't come off!! We needed a hack saw, which was conveniently at home. We lost day light, and decided to camp there!

Early Thursday morning opening day on the side of the road, driving back into Big Piney to go buy a freakin hack saw! We returned to the camper, and Jamie got once again back to work. It took a while, Elijah and I napped, then dad came and woke us up. He told us he had it fixed and were all ready to get to hunting camp!! What a way to spend the opening day of bow hunting season!!

The camper holds, we make it just fine, and get all settled into camp. Elijah and I explore the woods for cool rocks, twigs, and moo cows!!

Elijah just loved being up at camp, sitting in the dirt, playing with the rocks, and hanging out with his Summit boy!

Opening day about 2 in the afternoon, Jame sets up our targets, and we decided to shoot a bit. He then tell me he is just going to go on a quick night hunt, and probably just call and scout out them Elk!

Elijah and I made dinner, and snuggled up to a movie in the camper. We loved it! It felt odd not going with Jamie to hunt, I was missing it, but still enjoying my time at camp. Elijah and I fell asleep. I wake up to Summit barking, and realize its just Jamie driving into camp, it was dark about 10 pm..I wait laying in bed for Jamie to come in the camper. I hear the door open and shut, and then peaks his wide eyed beautiful face around the corner. " I got one Julie, I got one!!"

I was in shock! I played it off like he was joking, "nuh uh no you didn't! did you!?"

Jamie then told me his "hunting story" I love his hunting stories!!! We stayed up and talked for a couple of hours about our crazy adventure, and how stressful the situation could have been.

We talked about all the praying we have been doing, on top of our normal prayers. We felt like we prayed all day every day for days straight to get things in order, and have them work out. Because of our faith in the Lord, I know he comforted us, and blessed us with the mentality and patience to get through our trials. We actually had fun, considering our circumstances!

I am SO thankful for my amazing husband, for the knowledge not only that he has in the gospel, but for being the hand man he is! I swear he is am automotive technician, carpenter, electrician, HVAC, plumber, pipe fitter, welder...THE LIST GOES ON!!! Such a hard working man, and not afraid of a little labor! He's a mans man! I believe one of the sexiest things things about him is his skill to PROVIDE, and of course the fact that he is a HUNTER, and can go out and get his family some food with a bow!

He is so perfect for me, I love him so much!! Can't wait to make more babies, and have him teach them all these things :O)


So enough with the mushy gushy and on to the KILL! Here are some photos of Jamie Elk. He shot this fella deep in the basin, and had to quarter him up. Oh yes it’s a job! For one thing; any person going elk hunting alone is nuts!

The first trip out of the basin he brought up the head and a hind quarter. He said that was the hardest part, SO HEAVY!!!

By the time he took the second trip his brothers showed up, and brought Jamie his special pack to put the elk in. He fit the rest of the front and hind quarters and a few other parts of meat. It was heavy as well! He packed out over a hundred pounds of elk out of the basin, one hell of a hike by itself, let alone to add an elk into the mix...I love my buff and strong hubby!!

Elijah and daddy's kill.

All in all a fabulous trip!! Now to get my deer!!