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Family Friendly Fridays: Raspberry Cheesecake Bars

March 25, 2011 By Julie 39 Comments

I was supposed to be making a tart with my brand new tart pan.  At least that was the original intention.  In the end it turned out more like a bar made in a tart pan.  This is the second time that my attempts at “tart creation” have been thwarted.  The first time involved rhubarb and wouldn’t you guess, cream cheese.  It was a sloppy finish and in the end I had to mix the whole concoction together, throw it in a pie crust and freeze it.  The pie was delicious, but it definitely didn’t qualify for tart status.  I swear, one of these days I’m going to set out to make a tart and succeed.  Until that day comes though, this bar definitely suffices and serves to calm my ever nagging sweet tooth.

Think cookie crust with just a hint of lemon zest meets smooth as silk almondy cream cheese middle and hug it all together with a slightly tart red raspberry sauce that serves to balance the overall sweetness of the confection.  Combine this melody of flavors and what do you have?  One harmoniously empty plate, that’s what.

I’m assuming you can’t get to the kitchen fast enough to whip a plate up for yourself, so let me end the suspense and show you how it’s done.

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Filed Under: Creams and Custards, Dessert, Food, Fruit Based Tagged With: almond extract, butter, Cornstarch, Cream Cheese, Egg, flour, food, heavy cream, lemon zest, raspberries, recipe, salt, Sugar, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, water

17 Bean White Chicken Chili

March 21, 2011 By Julie 24 Comments

Have you ever bought one of those packs of beans from the grocery store?  You know the ones, they have 17 different flavors of legume in the assortment and a recipe for the same old soup on the back every time you pick it up.

Well, I just so happened to have one such bag gracing the inside of my pantry a few weeks back that was bellowing at me to eat it.  Being the adventuresome food blogger that I am, I decided to veer away from the bean sack’s dinner plans and instead attempt to create a dish of my own.  It would be a chili dish.  And while I was at it, I resolved to make it a chicken based chili.  And if I was going to use chicken, why not take it one step further and make the base be something other than tomatoes.  I was on fire; the inspirational juices were flowing like a glass of cool water on a hot summer day.

I threw in a little of this, and a bit of that.  The steam was rising and the water was bubbling.  All I needed was my witches hat, a wart and a good cackle, and I would have been concocting one seriously wicked witches brew.   When the smoke cleared and the spoon was laid to rest, what remained was one seriously delicious white chicken chili.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Food, Main Course, One Dish Meals Tagged With: beans, bell pepper, broth, chicken, chile powder, Chiles, cilantro, coriander, Corn, Cornstarch, Crushed Red Pepper, cumin, food, garlic, lime, onion, oregano, pepper, recipe, salt, tomato, water

Family Friendly Fridays: Boston “Black Forest” Cream Pie

March 11, 2011 By Julie 25 Comments

Who wants some Boston Cream Pie?  How about some Black Forest Cake?  How about both?  Pie meet cake.  Cake meet pie.  Don’t they look happy together?  I like to think of their relationship as a little slice of heaven.

It’s been awhile since I cranked out a killer dessert so I figured it was high time.  That, and I really needed a serious hit of chocolate.  Who doesn’t every now and then?  Enter into the pie picture my friend black forest cake.  Super duper chocolaty goodness with a cherry or two thrown in for good measure.   Booyah.

Let’s review.  A Boston cream pie is typically a sponge cake with pastry cream in the middle and ganache poured over the top.  A black forest cake is a decadently chocolate cake with layers of whipped cream and cherries sandwiched between.  Cake.  Pie.  Cake. Pie.  Pake?  Cie?  Hey, call it whatever you want, I call it good and gone.  I’ve dressed this little lady up in a chocolate sponge, added cherries and cream to her middle and ganached her from head to toe.  If you thought plain ol’ Boston cream pie was good, prepare to be one up’ed.

Have I got you ready for your own little slice of pie heaven?

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Filed Under: Cake, Dessert, Family Friendly Fridays, Food, Other, Pies Tagged With: baking powder, baking soda, butter, cherries, cherry juice, cocoa powder, Cornstarch, dark chocolate, Egg, Egg Yolks, flour, food, heavy cream, Milk, recipe, salt, Sugar, vanilla


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