www.denamoore.com April 2, 2012

I love cooking and finding a balance between the flavors of home and what is available here has been great fun.  I am teaching a couple of the ladies who live here how to cook some of my favorites.  We meet once a week and as we are cooking they teach me the language.  Using a common phrase “how do you say…” and a few sherades has been commical at times but great fun.

In the last few weeks I have built a website with my name and will be posting all future recipes there.  Just go to www.denamoore.com to find all the recipes from the blog plus all the new ones we can dream up.  If you have suggestions or know tricks that will improve one of the recipes you see I would love, love, love to hear from you.  On my website you can still add comments and there is a contact page so you can email me directly!

Happy Cooking and go check out the latest Chicken Noodle Casserole on the new website!

Dena

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Pumpkin Cheesecake February 17, 2012

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Ingredients

Crust:

• 1 3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs or tea biscuits
• ½ c. sugar
• 1 stick softened salted butter

Filling:

• 3 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 (15-ounce) can pureed pumpkin
• 3 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• ¾ ts. Pumpkin pie spice
• 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

For crust:

In medium bowl, combine crumbs, and sugar. Add softened butter. Press down flat into a 9-inch spring form pan. Set aside.

For filling:

Beat cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth.  Add condensed milk, eggs, sugar and spice and mix well.  Add flour and vanilla and beat until well combined.  Pour into crust and level by shaking gently.

Set spring form pan on baking sheet incase the spring form pan leaks.  Place in oven for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let sit for 15 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 hours.

Serves:  8 servings

 

Granny Moore’s “off the hook” pie February 16, 2012

bananas are a key ingredient in this delicious pie

This is a no bake refrigerator pie.

• 2 graham cracker crusts (see note below)
• 3 bananas
• 1 package Dreamwhip (see note below)
• ½ ts. Vanilla
• 2- 8 oz. packages cream cheese (see notes below)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 can pie filling

Crust:

2 prepackaged graham cracker crusts

-Or-

• 2 cups grated cookie crumbs (I use tea biscuits)
• ½ cup softened butter
• Sugar optional depending on how sweet the cookies are.

Mix the crumbs and butter together and form thin layer in the bottom of 2 eight inch pie pans.  Lightly toast.

Filling:

Beat together softened cream cheese and sugar.  In separate bowl prepare dreamwhip according to directions on packet adding vanilla.  Fold dreamwhip into cream cheese mixture.

Slice bananas and place single layer in crust.   Layer the cream cheese mixture over the bananas reserving ½.  Spread the pie filling over the cream cheese splitting the contents of the can over both pies.  Using remaining cream cheese mixture, make a final layer over the fruit.

Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.  Don’t leave out it will melt.

Notes:

If prepackaged graham cracker crusts are not available make the optional crust.

If you cannot get dreamwhip, use a sweetened whipped cream and add the vanilla.  This can be done without a mixer just takes determination and a little longer to get peaks to form in the whipped topping.

If you can’t get cream cheese, look around for a substitute like nouvella.  Ask your grocer they might be able to special order something for you, mine does.

Pie filling can be any fruit but I like blueberry.  That is what Granny Moore always used and it is always a hit.  I like to pick up a can or two at an imports store when I am in the capitol but you could certainly make your own.