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Banana-Butterscotch Cream Pie

RJ — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:50:38 +0000

I’ve been baking a lot recently. We had two snow days off (due to the two plus feet of snow we got), in which time I made ginger-molasses cupcakes. And today I made a banana butterscotch cream pie. And I’ll transcribe the recipe for y’all, it’s from the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, though I kind of combined two recipes…the butterscotch and the banana. We haven’t eaten the pie yet, so I hope it turned out well!

Butterscotch-Banana Cream Pie

3/4 c. brown sugar

1/3 c. all-purpose flour

1/4 tsp. salt

2 c. milk

3 slightly beaten egg yolks

3 tbsp. butter

1 tsp. vanilla

1 9-in. baked pastry shell

Meringue (recipe follows)

3 bananas

Filling:

In saucepan, combine sugar, flour, and salt; gradually stir in milk. Cook and stir over med.-high heat till bubbly. cook and stir 2 mins. Remove from heat. Stir a moderate amount of hot mixture into yolks; immediately return to hot mixture; cook 2 mins., stirring constantly. remove from heat.

Meringue:

3 egg whites

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1/4 tsp. cream of tartar

6 tbsp. sugar

Beat egg whites with vanilla and cream of tartar till soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, beating till stiff and glossy peaks form and all sugar is dissolved.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Slice bananas into cooled pastry shell. Top with hot filling and meringue, in that order. Bake for 12-15 mins. or until meringue is golden. Cool.

Hope you like this recipe!

Spinach Pesto Fontina Lasagne

RJ — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:46:27 +0000

A time consuming, if immensely delicious vegetarian recipe from Bon Appetit magazine. Oh my gosh, it was really good when I made it, and, while it takes a while, it isn’t hard. Here’s a link to the recipe on my favorite cooking site (besides Retro-Food, of course.), Epicurious:

Spinach Pesto Fontina Lasagne

Muffins For When You Have NOTHING in the House

RJ — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:13:43 +0000

Before theater class one Saturday, I wanted muffins. Sweet, delicious, warm muffins. So, I went to my favorite place besides Barnes and Noble, my House, and Piven (my theater school)…Epicurious! Anyway, I knew we had cinnamon, nutmeg, at least half a stick of butter and other such staples, so I asked for cinnamon muffins, and the gentle hand of Epicurious offered me this awesome recipe:

Cinnamon Sugar Muffins

It’s quick, easy, suitable for picky eaters and absolutely DELICIOUS!!! (Not to mention it has so few ingrediants.)

Delicious cookies that it would suck worse than any vampire could if they didn’t exist

RJ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:50:30 +0000

Another fab recipe from Epicurious. I made these cookies for teacher appreciation week, and my history teacher’s wife really liked them. So I decided to link to them (below) so you could try them. I put crystallized ginger niblets on top of white icing, which was delicious and more classy looking than the colored icing and sugars it called for.

Molasses honey ginger cookies

My dad helped me make them at four thirty a.m. which isn’t early for me, but it was for him, so I’m really grateful for that. Therefore, heres my other serving suggestion: Wake a loved one up at four a.m. and have them make the cookies with you. It makes the finished product all the better.