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What are you baking these days? September 2011, part 2 [old]
i once made a pie with canned cherry pie filling (sadly, i love the stuff) and fresh cranberries. the cranberries really added zing to the pie. I'm thinking they would perk up a fresh cherry pie too. Cool, i found the recipe... http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Cranberry-Cherry-Pie
Best packaged non-bakery store bought cookies
I LOVE almonette cookies.... the flavor and texture are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy... quoting Ben Franklin
What to do with cooked chicken?
i make a chicken spread, kinda like a ground up chicken salad... put chicken in food processor with some mayo, sour cream and season salt and grind up to spreading consistency. good for spreading on crackers or toast... maybe top with some chopped celery and/or dried cranberries.
Need dessert options for sandwich rehearsal lunch
This is for the traditional crowd. Applescotch Bread Pudding.... comes from Betty Crocker New Picture Cookbook of 1960something. Been making this for 30 plus years. Great for making ahead and doubles easily... so here goes:
Applescotch Bread Pudding:
4 cups soft bread cubes, (1/2 inch)...use bread like Pepperidge Farm or Arnold's white
4 cups sliced, pared cooking apples... i like golden delicious/granny smith combo
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup cream... whipping or heavy whipping
Heat oven to 350. Place half of bread cubes in greased 1 1/2 quart baking dish. Cover with 2 cups apples. Mix butter, sugars, cinnamon and cream. Pour half over apples. Add another layer of bread cubes and apples; Top with rest of sugar mixture. Bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours. 8 servings.
sometimes i make more of the sugar mixture than it calls for, other times not. My mom always served this with plain, unsweetend, unwhipped heavy cream poured right over it. The dessert is sweet enough, that the unsweetend liquid cream is the perfect foil.
Fruit Crisp...is it possible to make it healthy?
imo, there is no way to make a "sinfully good" fruit crisp in a "healthy" manner. so instead i would just accept a goodly portion of fruit crisp as a well deserved splurge. if that doesn't calm the angst, perhaps budget your calories/fat allotment so that a well made, sweet and buttery fruit crisp can fit into your diet.
Where can I buy boiled cider
you can buy it at http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/boiled-cider-1-pint
"Dirty" recipes that are crowd pleasers
this is kind of a fake black forest cake... i make brownies in a 13x9, leave them in the pan, don't cut... i top the brownie with cherry pie filling and then top the pie fillng with whipped cream and if i'm feeling ambitious garnish with chocolate curls. You can get really trashy and use a brownie mix and cool whip, and garnish with chocolate jimmies, lol. You'd be surprised how many people can't figure out what the "crust" is! Comstock "more fruit" cherry pie filling works really well. I gotta admit, i LOVE canned cherry pie filling.
Desserts/cakes around Woodlawn?
just found this post. I grew up in woodlawn and was just there in august 2009. There is an Italian bakery called Artuso's on McLean Ave and what would be Martha Ave if the Bronx extended to McClean Ave. Everything is so good there. If you go in the summer, they sell hand scraped Italian ices too.
Best sandwich I ever invented
best ever topping for a toasted onion bagel: cream cheese with lots raw garlic put through a press all mixed together. may want to wait a while before leaving the house though :)
E-A-S-Y, no brainer, Party Food for 100 ?
for an easy dessert you can make black forest brownies. Make brownies in a 13x9, when cool, top with canned cherry pie filling and then top with whipped cream (or cool whip if time is an issue, do this as a last resort though). top the whole thing with chocolate curls with whatever chocolate you have. keep chilled until you serve it. might be nice to brush the brownie with kirsch before you put the pie filling on top. this always goes over really well. people have even asked me what the "crust" is. to serve, i just put a spoon in the dish and people can scoop out however much they want.
Success! Homemade “Fage” Yogurt! Easy! Cheap!
Can you make yogurt with half and half or with heavy cream?
Recipes You've Never Heard of Outside Your Family
couldn't find acini de pepe when i made this last week, i subbed orzo and it worked just fine.
Recipes You've Never Heard of Outside Your Family
Frog eye salad is the ultimate in comfort food. Sweet, tangy, mild and yet bursting with flavor. Marshmallows are good in it. Some recipes have coconut in them. I leave out the coconut, I don't want to interupt the soft texture.
Top 10 Bakeries in the 5 Boros? [moved from What's My Craving?]
this isn't in the 5 boros, but it's about a block out of the Bronx, (Woodlawn), in Yonkers.
Anna Artuso's Pastry Shop at 969 McLean Ave. It's on the corner of McClean Ave and what would be Martha Ave coming up from the Bronx. My favorite item there is the cherry cheese danish. It's huge, more like a cherry cheese danish coffeecake. Everything they sell there is great. I don't know if they still do, but they also sold hand scraped Italian ices in paper cups during the summer months. I live out of state now and everytime I go back to Woodlawn, I always bring something back with me from Artuso's.
Recipes You've Never Heard of Outside Your Family
I make a quick "ice cream" in the food processor. I take frozen berries, raspberry work well, and put them in the bowl of a food processor. I add sugar (lately i've been using confectioner's sugar) and heavy whipping cream. I whirl it in the processor until it turns into ice cream. I adjust the sugar and usually add some lemon or lime juice. I serve it immediately. It's a soft serve dessert but the flavors of the berries really shines. Sometimes I will use flavored yogurt in place of the cream for a frozen yogurt.
Recipes You've Never Heard of Outside Your Family
My family's stuffing recipe is really simple, very few ingredients. Slice up yellow onions, maybe three or four and sautee in butter until soft but not brown. Add good quality white bread like Arnold's or Pepperidge Farm, about twice as much bread as onions then add maybe 2 teaspoons of rubbed sage and some salt. If the stuffing seems dry, moisten with more butter. We use this recipe to stuff turkey, chickens and to make stuffed pork chops. Somehow this stuffing seems to taste like more than goes into it.
Another family "recipe" was to fry up leftover boxed mac and cheese in butter. My kids now love this too!!
Recipes You've Never Heard of Outside Your Family
When I was a kid my mother used to fry up slices of cold leftover Cream of Wheat in butter and then we would sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. I loved the really buttery and crispy edges!
