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Strawberry Pie

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It is such a beautiful day outside, and the weather is supposed to stay like this for a while.  I love spring time.  It makes me feel like we will be at the beach in no time at all- which of course is a wonderful and horrifying thought all at the same time.  Everything is so fresh and bright, and a strawberry pie pretty much describes my mood and this weather exactly.  Here is a favorite easy recipe that will put you in a good mood even if winter is trying to hang on in your area!

Strawberry Pie

Ingredients:

1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked
1 quart fresh strawberries
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions:

Arrange half of strawberries in baked pastry shell. Mash remaining berries and combine with sugar in a medium saucepan. Place saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and water. Gradually stir cornstarch mixture into boiling strawberry mixture. Reduce heat and simmer mixture until thickened, about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour mixture over berries in pastry shell. Chill for several hours before serving. In a small bowl, whip cream until soft peaks form. Serve each slice of pie with a dollop of whipped cream.

Tomato Pie- Real Southern Charm

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In the last two days, trailers for new television shows about South Carolina have been aired.  Please, please, please do not believe that South Carolina is anything like what is depicted in these shows.  The first one I saw (and I have been hearing about this upcoming show for a while) is called Southern Charm and will be airing on Bravo on March 3rd.  To be honest, I almost threw up when I saw the trailer, as it is so ridiculous and has absolutely NOTHING to do with Charleston or anything remotely like “Southern Charm”.  The second show is from the producers of Jersey Shore, which should tell you something right there.  It is called Party Down South and is filmed in Murrells Inlet.  This show is actually not even worthy of comment.  Now that I have had my say about the ridiculousness of these shows and how they are in no way a representation of what South Carolinians are like, I do have to say that I can’t wait to watch them.  Dirty reality shows can be so entertaining.  To combat my icky feeling about these shows and to remind myself that we have many, many wonderful things I love about this state, here is a delicious and very traditional South Carolina dish- Tomato Pie.

Tomato Pie

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon butter
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 (10 ounce) can refrigerated flaky biscuits

3 tomatoes, thinly sliced

1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup low-fat mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon salt-free garlic and herb seasoning blend

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a medium baking dish.
Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Place celery, onion, and green pepper into the skillet, and saute until tender.
Press biscuits into the prepared baking dish to form a crust. Layer with the tomatoes. Top with the sauteed vegetables.
In a medium bowl, mix Cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, and salt-free seasoning blend. Spread evenly over the vegetables.
Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until bubbly and lightly browned. Cool 15 to 20 minutes before serving.

Mississippi Mud Pie

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Walker spent four days out at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island with his grade- 75 10 year olds.  I don’t think you could have paid me to be a chaperone for that field trip.  They had a ball playing in the mud pit and learning more about the lowcountry natural life.  They had to keep a journal and when they got back, they had to right a paragraph on all of the senses- what they heard, saw, tasted, smelled, felt.  I think if Walker could have written about the Mississippi Mud Pie they had for dessert one night for all of the senses he would have- instead he just used it for taste.  Here is my favorite Mississippi Mud Pie recipe- enjoy!

Mississippi Mud Pie

(from www.foodnetwork.com)

Ingredients
For the crust: 9 chocolate graham crackers (1 sleeve)
1/3 cup chopped pecans
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

For the filling: 1 stick unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Pinch of salt
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 tablespoons coffee-flavored liqueur
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 large eggs

For the topping:
1 1/2 cups cold heavy cream
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons finely chopped pecans
Chocolate sauce, for drizzling (optional)

Directions:

Make the crust: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Pulse the graham crackers and pecans in a food processor until finely ground. Add the melted butter and process until moistened. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the chocolate crumb mixture for topping, then press the rest into the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie plate. Bake until set, about 10 minutes; transfer to a rack and let cool.Meanwhile, make the filling: Melt the butter and chocolate in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring. Remove from the heat, then stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Stir in the sugar, corn syrup, coffee liqueur and vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time, stirring until smooth. Pour the filling into the prepared crust and bake until set and cracked on top (like a brownie), about 30 minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool slightly, about 2 hours (the pie should still be slightly warm).

Make the whipped cream: Beat the heavy cream, confectioners’ sugar and vanilla with a mixer until soft peaks form. Top the pie with the whipped cream, pecans and reserved chocolate crumb mixture. Drizzle with chocolate sauce.

Pink Lemonade Pie

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We got back from our month in the mountains on Saturday evening.  When we left Twilight on Saturday morning at 6:30 am, it was 56 degrees.  When we arrived in Charleston 14 hours and 40 minutes later at just after 9 pm, it was 86 degrees.  We had only been gone for 30 days, but that heat and humidity hit me something fierce.  I know I should be more used to it, but holy smokes Batman- it is hot down here.  We had such fabulous weather in the Catskills that I am sure the atmosphere will cooperate, and cool fall weather is just around the corner 🙂 Fortunately, one of my best girlfriends has a place very close by with a pool, and she has invited a few of us over tomorrow night for some pool/girl time.  To show my wondrous appreciation for her very nice cold relaxing pool, I thought I should bring something special to eat.  But then I thought about standing in the kitchen with the oven on and cooking and chopping and sweating, and I got so upset at my friend for inviting me to her pool, but then I thought about the pool again and how nice it is, and realized how ridiculous I was being.  So instead of cooking, I found a super awesome, super easy recipe for Pink Lemonade Pie that should be a perfect pairing with a frosty cold beverage, wonderful friends, and a great pool.  By the way, I love my friend, and if she wanted me to slave away in the kitchen, I would, but I think she will be very happy with this instead!

Pink Lemonade Pie

Ingredients:

1  can sweetened condensed milk
1  can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
1  container Cool Whip (thawed)
2 prepared graham cracker crusts

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix together sweetened condensed milk and lemonade concentrate. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into pie crusts. Refrigerate until completely chilled.

How easy is that!!

 

Mississippi Mud Pie

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On top of working with the Lee Brothers last week, which was the best experience ever, I also moved.  As all of you know, moving is not fun- at all!  However, I now have a much bigger kitchen, and I also got some old Pyrex mixing bowls from ebay.com which are fantastic.  My son asked me whether I was more excited about the new house or my new mixing bowls.  The house wins by a slim margin.  As a treat for all of my hard work this weekend during the move, I decided on chocolate. Nothing quite beats it- except for maybe cheese- but those are two totally different categories.  I found this old recipe for Mississippi Mud Pie, and it is delicious!

Mississippi Mud Pie

Use a chocolate or vanilla cookie crust, or a graham cracker crust, to make this Mississippi mud pie
(I used chocolate- so good).

Ingredients:

1/4 lb. butter, 1 stick
2 (1 oz. each) squares unsweetened chocolate
3 eggs
3 tablespoons white corn syrup
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
9 inch graham cracker, chocolate or vanilla wafer pie shell

Preparation:

In a saucepan, heat butter and chocolate, stirring often, until melted and well  blended. 
Beat eggs; stir in the corn syrup, sugar and vanilla. 
Add the chocolate mixture to egg and sugar mixture, stirring well. 
Preheat oven to 350°.  Pour filling into prepared pie shell. 
Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until top is slightly crunchy and filling is set.
Serve  warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or dollop of whipped cream.

Last Minute Real Southern Cobbler, Spoon Licking Good

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I found this authentic and easy cobbler recipe on the Rick-Rack and Gingham blog – a blog by a southern grandma who loves to bake and travel around in her RV with her husband of 34 years. Thanks Cindy!

…What all Good Southern Women keep up their sleeves for those emergency..ooops.. someone is coming over… recipes. Actually my daughter started it..I finished it..baby was calling her mama!

COBBLER OF COURSE!!

We went with the Blackberry/Dewberry cobbler version..it works great with peach and even apricot.

Now I know..this is too easy..we didn’t roll out the dough..we never said we were ancient Southern women!! This recipe has been around for-ever..it can be whipped up for the last minute company..Church social on Sun evening..because your husband is whining for a dessert…and because you have a new baby in the house..lol

I would rate it “Easy Peasy” and “Stick to your ribs Yummy”..we have been known to eat it for breakfast..Hey..there are no real rules for breakfast foods…

For the complete post and the cobbler recipe we all want to try, click here. For more of Cindy’s authentic recipes check out her blog.