Tag Archive | Cream cheese
Cooking Thought: February 10th 2013
Today is National Cream Cheese Brownie Day! CREAM CHEESE BROWNIES 4 squares unsweetened chocolate 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter 2-1/2 cups sugar 5 eggs 1-1/4 cups flour 1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 13×9-inch aluminum foil baking pan. Read through this recipe entirely before you begin, as you […]
Cooking Thought: February 9th 2013
Today is National Bagels and Lox Day! Recipe Ingredients for Bagel with Cream Cheese and Lox 1 small egg bagel 2 T whipped cream cheese 1 1/2 oz lox Recipe Directions for Bagel with Cream Cheese and Lox Toast bagel. Apply cream cheese. Apply lox. Eat.
Cooking Thoughts: January 16th 2013
Today is National Fig Newton Day! PUMPKIN FIGARO 16-18 Fig Newtons 1/2 c. cream cheese 1/2 c. chunky peanut butter 1 1/2 c. pureed pumpkin 3/4 c. sugar 1 egg 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice 1 tbsp. vanilla 5 oz. evaporated milk Fresh whipped cream Grease and flour an 8 x 8 pan. Closely lay Fig […]
Cooking Thought: October 31st 2012
Happy Halloween Everyone! Today is National Caramel Apple Day! Cream Cheese Caramel Dip 8 oz. cream cheese 1/4 c. white granulated sugar 3/4 c. brown sugar 2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 c. chopped nuts (optional) Soften cream cheese in microwave (approximately 20 seconds). Add sugars and vanilla. Return to microwave for 1 minute. Stir well. Pour […]
Cooking Thought: October 21st 2012
Today is National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day! Tasty Recipe! INGREDIENTS: 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust 1/2 cup pumpkin puree 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 pinch ground cloves 1 pinch ground nutmeg 1/2 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed […]
Cream Cheese Mints
One of my favorite mints in the whole wide world are homemade cram cheese mints. Now, honestly, I haven’t had them for over a decade- but oh yes, now that I’ve found the recipe again, I’m making them. Yep, it’s time consuming, but you end up with about 200 mints that you seriously cannot stop […]
Cranberry Nut Bread with Orange Glaze
Quick breads are perhaps the best things for breakfast, snacks and desserts. I love them. Now my favorite quick bread is pumpkin but I wanted to share with y’all a recipe for Cranberry Nut Bread. What You Need: Bread 3/4 cup chopped nuts 1-8oz package cream cheese 3/4 cup softened margarine (or butter) 2 cups […]
Halloween Feasting
Halloween is an ancient holiday dating back to the Celt festival of Samhain which meant “Summer’s End”. It was the ancient version of New Year’s Eve. The end of their year signaled the end of summer, the end of the harvest season, and the beginning of a long, hard winter that often caused many deaths […]
Halloween Goodies
This year, I’ve decided that I’m going to change things up a bit at work on Halloween. No reason we can’t jazz up the food and drink selections for a haunted evening. (whole new meaning to that when unexplained things perpetually happen at work…) I’m thinking to bring in drink and appetizer specials and see […]
Asparagus and Parmesan Cream Pastry
In trying to figure out what to make for dinner, T and I used the allrecipes.com application on our smartphone to come up with something fresh and tasty. T stumbled across Asparagus and Parmesan Cream Pastry. Of course, we tweaked it. This recipe originally came from Real Women of Philadelphia 2010 Host Mandy Heaston and it has […]
Post Halloween Review
First off, today is November 1st and I’d like to send a shout out to Catholics around the world commemorating All Saints Day. Secondly, I wanted to take a moment to wrap Halloween on my end and share with you all pictures of the various pumpkin carvings and dishes I put together for work and home. On […]
Making Classics: Carrot Cake
This week T and I have picked carrots from our garden. We quickly discovered we picked too many and so scrambled to figure out what exactly we could do with them. This evening I took on making a classic carrot cake. Nothing fancy- just carrot cake using the fresh carrots from our garden. And by […]
A Teenager’s Adventures in Curry
As any home cook knows, when you discover a dish, so does your family… after all they’re the ones eating your creations whether they like it or not. My family is no different. So when Curry and I fell in love, my daughter fell in love as well. Having recently turned 16, she is a wonder of […]
Grilled Cheese with a Twist
If you are like the average American, one of your favorite foods as a child was Grilled Cheese. I know it was for me and as an adult it brings back fond memories of being a child and sinking my teeth into hot cheesy goodness in toasy, buttery delight. My mouth waters even now thinking […]
Curried Cream Cheese Flat-breads
I like to peruse cooking magazines and various cookbooks for inspiration. This is a favorite pastime for me. I like to use the imagination of others to ignite my own imagination. Sometimes, it’s not a success and sometimes it is. In this case it was a complete success. While skimming the pages of Food Network […]
