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4B I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, October 27,2021 Some favorite pumpkin recipes full of fall flavor ADLEN ROBINSON Columnist Tis the season for pumpkins! I have used those small cooking pumpkins before, but honestly, canned pumpkin puree is deli cious and so much easier. Here are some of my favorite ways to use canned pumpkin. Enjoy! Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting • 1 cup flour • 1 teaspoon baking pow der • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice • !/2 teaspoon baking soda • 14 teaspoon salt • 2 eggs • 14 cup vegetable or avoca do oil • 2/3 cup agave nectar • % cup canned pumpkin • Pinch of nutmeg • Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows) Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Grease and flour 12 muffin tins, or use paper baking cups and then spray them lightly with non-stick cooking spray. In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, agave nectar, canned pumpkin and nutmeg. Add egg mixture to the dry mixture, stir ring to combine. Spoon evenly into muffin tins or paper cups. Bake for 18-20 minutes until cake tester comes out clean. Cool on rack. Frost cupcakes and then place in airtight con tainer and store in the refrigera tor. Cream cheese frosting • 4 ounces cream cheese, softened • 2 tablespoons agave nec tar • 1 Vi tablespoons butter, softened • Vi teaspoon vanilla extract Place all ingredients in a bowl, and beat with an electric mixer until combined. Pumpkin cookies with white chocolate chips • 2 !/2 cups flour • !/2 cup whole wheat flour • 1 !/2 teaspoons baking soda • 1 !/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice • !/2 teaspoon salt • 1 cup butter, softened • 1 cup sugar • 1 cup brown sugar • 2 eggs • 1 !/2 teaspoons vanilla • 1 cup canned pumpkin • 1 package white choco late chips Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Fine 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. In a bowl, whisk together flours, baking soda, pumpkin spice and salt. In another bowl, using an electric mixer, beat together but ter and sugars until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add vanilla and pumpkin, beat ing until combined. Stir in the white chocolate chips. Drop the batter, 2 tablespoons at a time, 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes until edges are begin ning to brown. Cool on rack. Wholewheat pumpkin bread • % cup sugar • % cup brown sugar • 16 ounces plain yogurt • 14 oil • 4 eggs • 2/3 cup water • 2 Vi cups whole wheat pastry flour • 1 cup flour • 2 teaspoons baking soda • 1 Vi teaspoons salt • 1 Vi teaspoons cinnamon • 1 teaspoon nutmeg • 1 (15-ounce) can pump kin Preheat oven 350-degrees. Spray the bottom and sides of 2 loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray. Using an electric mixer, beat the sugars, yogurt and oil and water together until com bined. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. In another bowl, whisk together whole wheat flour, flour, baking soda, salt, cinna mon, nutmeg and salt. Add flour mixture a bit at a time to the wet mixture. Beat in the pumpkin. Pour into prepared loaf pans and bake 45 to 50 minutes until cake tester comes out clean. Cool on rack. Pumpkin pancakes • 2 cups flour • 2 tablespoons brown sugar • 1 tablespoon baking pow der • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 'A teaspoon nutmeg • 14 teaspoon ground ginger • 1 % cups milk • ¥i cup canned pumpkin • 2 eggs • 2 tablespoons vegetable or avocado oil • Maple syrup for serving In a bowl, whisk together flour, brown sugar, baking pow der, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground ginger. In another bowl, whisk together milk, canned pumpkin, eggs and oil. Add wet ingredients to flour mixture, stir ring just until combined—it is fine if it is still lumpy. Heat skil let over medium-high heat. Spray with non-stick cooking oil. Make pancakes with 14-cup batter, spreading out a bit. Cook a few minutes and then flip over. Repeat with remaining batter. Serve with maple syrup. Pumpkin smoothies • 1 package silken-style tofu • % cup canned pumpkin • 1 cup frozen fruit of your choice (mango or peach is great) • 14 cup honey • 14 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice • 1 cup ice Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pumpkin spice mug cake for one • 1/3 cup Baking mix, such as Bisquick • 14 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice • 1 tablespoon brown sugar • 14 teaspoon espresso powder • 2 tablespoons milk • 2 tablespoons canned pumpkin • 1 tablespoon avocado oil • 14 teaspoon vanilla extract • Non-stick cooking spray • Whipped cream for serv ing • Pinch of nutmeg Combine baking mix, pump kin pie spice, sugar and espresso. Add milk, pumpkin, oil and vanilla. Spray a large microwave- safe coffee mug with non-stick cooking spray. Pour mixture in. Microwave on high for 2-2 Vi minutes. Cool a bit and top with whipped cream and nutmeg. FROM 1B Felkai school sports were not very competitive at all. She had a small tryout with the Fady Tigers when she took her first visit to Dawsonville in April 2021. On that visit, Felkai realized how differ ent sports would be. “[Porter] even stayed in contact before I came back,” Felkai said. “She made sure I stayed in touch with everyone and made sure to get me involved with the group chats. I was already in contact with a lot of peo ple before. It was nice to know they were all look ing forward to me com ing.” Though she did not want to leave the home town she knew and loved, Felkai said she was aware that she had to make the best of her new situation. “You can’t control your circumstances,” Felkai said. “No matter how badly I did not want to leave my home, you can’t control it, so you just have to make the best of the sit uation. So, I tried to take the time to get to know the little things about my teammates. I know Emerald loves communi cation on the court. And Jessie...she’d always call the sets.” Success on the court came quickly for Felkai and the Fady Tigers. After only winning eight games in 2020, the volleyball team finished the regular season with 19 wins and third in Region 7-3A. With the team’s success came more fans, some thing Felkai was not used to having at her sporting events in Canada. “Sports in general are definitely a bigger deal here,” Felkai said. “You would barely ever see anything about high school sports in a local newspaper. It’s way more competitive here. We didn’t have State or like a big tournament or any thing like that. Your neighbors are like ‘We saw you in the paper’ or ‘We came to your game.’ It’s such a big community thing.” Felkai led the team sta tistically in kills, aces and assists, but it is not the recognition that made Felkai fall in love with volleyball, but the cama raderie of the sport. “I love having to depend on each other,” Felkai said. “With sports like basketball, soccer or tennis, you can be a ball hog, but in volleyball you can’t. You have to trust your teammates. You can only touch the ball twice so you have to be able to trust your teammates. You have to build that relation ship on and off the court to be able to succeed on the court.” Though the Fady Tigers volleyball team came up short in qualifying for the state tournament, that has not discouraged Felkai from trying other sports. She said if her schedule allows it, she would like to try playing soccer or running track for the school. Away from sports, Felkai said she is still get ting used to the cowboy boots, the changes classes at school brings and still missing her friends from Canada. However, Felkai said she has no interest in leaving Dawsonville any time soon. “I came here and every thing is so local,” Felkai said. “I love the small town feel. It’s just that small town like what you see in movies.” FROM 1B Football receiver Marilon Jackson caught the ball and jug gled it, but the lights at Cherokee Bluff flicker on and off after a touchdown. With the lights flickering, the referees couldn’t fully see what was happening and ruled the play a touchdown. Tigers head coach Sid Maxwell dis agreed with the call, “Obviously, it was an incomplete pass,” Maxwell said. “[Jackson] juggled it the whole time and never had possession and that was the turning point. It was too big of a football game for that to happen.” Maxwell was right on both ends. The Bears would use the momentum gained from that touch down to shut down the Tigers until senior Jackson Grindle’s 13 yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. This game also determined who would be in first place in Region 7-3A. Coming into play North Hall, Cherokee Bluff, and Dawson County were all unde feated in region. After tonight, Dawson County sits in third at 3-1 behind Cherokee Bluff (4-0) and North Hall (4-0). There are two remaining games for the Dawson County Tigers, one game against Fumpkin County (2-6 overall, 1-3 Region 7-3A) and North Hall (6-2 overall, 4-0 Region 7-3A). Wins against Fumpkin County next week and North Hall are pivotal if the Tigers want a shot at either hosting a playoff game or winning the region championship. The game against Fumpkin County will be at Dawson County High School on Friday, Oct. 29, starting at 7:30 p.m. Senior AJ Moore blocks the Cherokee Bluff punt on Friday, Oct. 22. Tigers' defense plays big in a close loss to Cherokee Bluff. Bill Murphy DCN Regional Staff FROM 1B Softball FROM 1B NASCAR runs on a base hit to take the 6-4 lead, Dawson County’s first lead in either game. Tattnall County would make a run, scoring two runs in the top of the seventh, but a key insurance run by Dawson County in the bottom of the sixth netted the Fady Tigers a game two victory to tie the series 1-1. Bailey once again threw a com plete game victory for the Fady Tigers, striking out seven and allow ing six hits. In 13 innings, Bailey walked only three batters, all of which were in game two. vibration in his No. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet Camaro ZF1 1FE, where he ultimately finished stage one. At the stage break, Elliott came down pit road and took four tires, fuel, and a chassis adjustment. After a fast pit stop by the No. 9 pit crew, Elliott rejoined the field in third. The adjustments made by Gustafson and the pit crew proved to be the right call as Elliott reclaimed the lead on lap 88. He maintained the lead until lap 121 where he made a scheduled green-flag pit stop for tires and fuel. His pit stop relegated him to fourth until the rest of the drivers ahead made their pit stops, which put him back in second on lap 131, ahead of teammate William Byron. Elliott maintained this position for the rest of the stage, finishing in second on lap 160. Elliott again made a pit stop at the stage break, taking four tires, fuel, and tape. He reset for the final stage and took the green flag in fourth. Another caution on lap 172 saw Elliott head to pit road for right-side tires and fuel. After his pit stop, Elliott restacked in fourth and set off with his sight on the front of the field. He maintained this position until the next caution on lap 218. Again, Gustafson called Elliott to pit road for four tires and fuel. Elliott told Gustafson before the caution that “the car is good, (I) just can’t go anywhere.” After making the pit stop, Elliott took the green flag in fourth but jumped to first by lap 223 which saw the races final caution. Elliott stayed out and kept the lead but was passed on the restart, relegating him to seventh. He found speed shortly after falling back, driving his way through the field, back into fourth by lap 233. He continued to push forward, taking sec ond-place on lap 254, where he would finish his night in Kansas City. Elliott’s second-place finish at Kansas marks his eighth top-10 finish in 13 races at the 1.5-mile track and his 20th top-10 in the 2021 Cup Series season. Elliott’s teammate Kyle Farsen has won both Round of 8 races, cementing his spot in the 2021 Cup Series champi onship race. The final race of the Round of 8 will be at Martinsville Speedway, starting at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31.
