Spicy Chili and Jeopardy

What a great family fun night! I love my time with my family and we're having a good time coming up with ideas! Josh loves to cook chili, so he decided he wanted to come up with his "own" chili recipe. He looked over his favorite recipe (Brother Nye's Chili) and the #1 rated recipe on allrecipes.com and compared the ingredients. He then eliminated some and added others. He ended up making a really good pot of chili!! (Sorry, no publishing this one! It's his secret!) Elisabeth made a pumpkin cheesecake pie. Oh Wow! It was so good! And it was from a low-calorie cookbook too! Here's the recipe:
1 shortbread crust
1 envelope Knox unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup cold milk
1/2 cup hot milk (almost to boiling)
1 can pumpkin
1 8oz. pkg of light cream cheese
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
light cool-whip
In blender sprinkle gelatin over cold milk, let stand 2 minutes. Add hot milk and mix about 2 mins. Add pumpkin, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon. Throughly mix, about 5 minutes, or until very well blended. (scraping sides frequently) Poor in pie crust, chill 3hours, and then top with cool-whip. Enjoy!
All week long Josh had been working on creating a jeopardy game for our family. He did a great job and made up some amazing categories. (Thanks Mom for helping him some. We needed some girly categories!) The categories were Bible, Historical quotes, Food Brands, Dog Breeds, Hunting, Cooking Terms, and Household Items. Brenna and Patrick's team really whipped me and Beth :( Oh well, we had a fabulous time, anyway! Can't wait until next week!!