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One thing we make every year is a No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake. You just mix creamed cheese with sugar and canned pumpkin and fold in Cool Whip. Then pour it into a prepared graham cracker crust pie shell. Place in the fridge for a couple of hours and you have a delicious pumpkin pie cheesecake. Just make sure the creamed cheese is room temperature before mixing. If you don't the pie may have lumps in it.

Here are two recipes. One uses Solid Pack canned Pumpkin and the other uses canned Pumpkin Pie Mix. Both are really good and about the same when finished. We always make the second one, just because it's easier and doesnt' require any extra spices as they are all in the canned Pumpkin Pie Mix.

No-Bake Cheesecake Pumpkin Pie - using solid pack canned pumpkin

http://www.recipezaar.com/No-Bake-Cheesecake-Pumpkin-Pie-26407

No-Bake Cheesecake Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

8 inches prepared graham cracker crusts

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

2 1/2 cups whipped topping, divided

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix

1/4 cup milk

1 1/2 cups 100% pumpkin puree (not the pie mix)

2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

Directions

1. In a medium-mixing bowl combine cream cheese, 1 cups of the whipped topping, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla extract. Beat until smooth.

2. Spread evenly over crust.

3. In a large mixing bowl combine: pudding, milk, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and 1 more cups of whipped topping.

4. Stir until thoroughly combined.

5. Spoon mixture over cream cheese layer.

6. Top with remaining 1/2 cup of whip topping.

7. I will put it in a pastry bag and decorate the top with the whip cream.

8. Chill at least 1 hour before serving.

No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake - using canned pumpkin pie mix

http://www.recipezaar.com/No-Bake-Pumpkin-Cheesecake-324006

No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese, room temperature

1 cup canned Pumpkin Pie Mix, don't use plain 100% solid pack canned pumpkin

1/4 cup granulated sugar

2 cups Cool Whip, plus

1 cup Cool Whip, more for topping

1 (9 inch)  graham cracker pie crust

Directions

1. Add room temperature cream cheese, pumpkin pie mix and sugar to mixing bowl.

2. Beat with electric mixer until smooth.

3.Fold 2 cups of Cool Whip into the pumpkin mixture until well incorporated. Fold until it is a uniform color.

4. Spoon mixture into prepared 9-inch graham cracker pie crust and spread to fill evenly.

5. Refrigerate at least 2-hours prior to serving.

6. Serve slices topped with 2 tablespoons of Cool Whip Topping.

I prepare a very traditional Thanksgiving meal becasue that's what my family likes. My  two favorite vegetables to serve at Thanksgiving are: Classic Baked Corn Pudding and Parmesan-Butternyt Squash Gratin. My mother and I love sweet potatoes but the 10 to 14 relatives don't. Why do so many people not like sweet potatoes?? I'll probably make a small casserole of them for just my mother and me. Do you serve sweet potatoes?

Andi

Andi,

Oh do we love sweet potatoes. I just read an article that claims sweet potatoes are fat burners, all the more reason to eat them. We keep about a bushel of sweet potatoes in our basement pantry. Sweet potatoes do not want to be kept too cold or they will rot. I boil them, put them on the bakers rack on the porch to cool. Then I  pull the thin peel off them and some times I cut them in half and in a heavy iron skillet fry them in hot lard, oil or shortening until they are caramelized and brown, then drain on paper towels. Some times I cut the whole cooked ones in chunks about 2" thick and put them in a caserole with some fresh cranberries and apple slices, brown sugar and orange juice and bake them. Dear Husband likes them greased and baked in the oven. They are good mashed with marshmallows and pecans too. The large ones cut into sticks and made like French Fries are good too, depending on what you are having them with. They are not good with Hamburgers, but do lend themselves to pork burgers or hot chicken sandwiches.

Hi Jes1220, At other times then Thanksgiving & Christmas I have fixed turkay this way. For the dressing I've used stove top stuffing and added more celery, onions, and dried cramberries, then stuffed the turkay and baked it, up-side doen in a pan that, with a potato on each side to ballance it, is then put in a brown paper grocery bag and stapled shut, bake at 350 degrees for at least 20 minutes per pound or directions on the turkey wraper. A few sides that are easy is:1. baked sweet and/ or white potatoes. 2. Creamed peas, just use a white sauce recipe and add the frozen peas. 3. cook a head of califlower and cover with cheese sauce from a jar. A cheese ball with crackers and veg. tray. I make fruit salad from canned fruit and fresh grapes,apples,& bananas. God bless and lots of luck, Granna2

Hi granna2, I really liked the way you ended your post, May you always have Christ in your Life...Also your meal sounded wonderfully yummy.Yes indeed,"IN COD WE TRUST"