I have always loved my family's fruit salad, but maybe that is because it is as much dessert as salad, and you know how much I love dessert. This salad was always, and I mean always, on our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner tables, but I love it any time of year. Even though I will always ...[ get the full recipe ]
Servings: This recipe makes two pie crusts. Ingredients (shown in the yellow dish) 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter 1/4 cup vegetable shortening* 3/4 tsp. salt 5-7 Tbsp. ice cold water Variations: You can replace the 1/4 cup vegetable shortening with 1/4 cup of any of the following ingredients: 1/4 cup ...[ get the full recipe ]
My mom and dad always made two desserts that I love this time of year (fall): pumpkin pie and cheesecake. So why not combine these two family traditions into a two-layer version. It sounded yummy to me, so I started with the pumpkin pie recipe that Mom always used and the cheesecake recipe that ...[ get the full recipe ]
Ingredients Graham Cracker Crust 1 2/3 cups graham cracker crumbs 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 2 Tbsp. sugar 6 Tbsp. butter, melted Cheesecake Layer 3 8-oz. packages cream cheese, room temperature 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla Pumpkin Layer 1 15 oz. can Pumpkin puree (pure pumpkin) 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed ...[ get the full recipe ]
When a cooking experiment starts out with unwrapping 40-50 pieces of chocolate candy, how can you go wrong! But you ask, "where did the idea for this experiment come from?" You won't believe it, but it started out with me trying to count calories ... You see, we had five house guests coming for ...[ get the full recipe ]
For a detailed description and pictures of the test bake, see the Cooking Blog Ingredients 1 cup plus 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt (if you are using salted butter, cut back to 1/4 tsp. salt) 2 1/2 Tbsp. butter (room temperature) 2 1/2 Tbsp. shortening 1/4 cup brown ...[ get the full recipe ]
Who doesn't love summer stone fruits like plums, apricots, and peaches? Now you can even get delicious hybrids, such as plumcots. Plumcots were apparently developed by Luther Burbank prior to 1926. Given their great flavor, it is surprising that they have only become widely available in more recent years. (I will let you know if ...[ get the full recipe ]
Filling Ingredients 4-6 plums or plumcots, quartered 4-6 apricots, quartered 2 Tbsp sugar (adjust according to sweetness of fruit) plus more for sprinking 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1 Tbsp brandy Crust Ingredients 1 cup flour 1 Tbsp sugar 3 Tbsp shortening 1-1/2 Tbsp butter, cold & cut into small pieces 2-3 Tbsp ice water Pinch salt ...[ get the full recipe ]
