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Key Lime Pie

Key Lime Pie
 
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This is an easy pie to make and great for entertaining. I keep ½ C baggies of lime juice in the freezer, so all I have to do is defrost one and voila
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Florida
Ingredients
  • 1 small graham cracker crust
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 4 egg yolks
  • ½ C key lime juice
  • fresh or purchased whipped cream
  • lime zest for garnish
  • Double the recipe if you are using a large crust.
Instructions
  1. Combine ingredients and pour into crust. Bake 325 for 15 minutes. Cool and top with whip cream and a lime zest.

 

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Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo Chicken Dip
 
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Serves: 8-10 servings
Ingredients
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1 (10 ounce) cans chunk chicken, drained
  • 1 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
  • ½ C cup Ranch dressing
  • ½ C cup buffalo sauce
  • 
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
  • 
1 bunch celery, cleaned and cut into 4 inch pieces
  • crackers or corn chips
Instructions
  1. Combine first 5 ingredients in sauce pan and heat until blended and warm. Transfer to pie plate, sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 350 until bubbly.

 

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Kumquat Marmalade

Kumquat Marmalade
 
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Jars of kumquat marmalade make great Christmas presents.
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Recipe type: Holidays
Cuisine: Florida
Ingredients
  • Wash, dry, halve, and remove seeds from kumquats. Cover the fruit with about ¼ their volume of sugar and let stand in the refrigerator overnight or for several days. Process in food processor in batches. Cook in large saucepan until desired consistency is reached. Adding more sugar makes the mixture thicker and sweeter.
  • Place in sterile jars and process in hot water bath for 15 min.

 

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Flan

Flan
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 12-16 servings
Ingredients
  • 1 C sugar caramelized in 2 metal cake pans
  • 8 eggs
  • 2 can 140z sweetened condensed milk
  • 31/2 C water
  • ¼ t salt
  • 1 t vanilla
Instructions
  1. Blend ingredients and pour into caramelized pans. Place pans in lipped baking sheets with water. Bake 1 hr until golden and set.

 

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Pecan Pie

Pecan Pie
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 3 eggs
  • ⅔ C sugar
  • ½ t salt
  • ⅓ C butter melted
  • ½ C dark corn syrup
  • ½ C light corn syrup
  • 1 C pecan pieces
  • add a little nutmeg and ginger (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375. Reduce to 350 after 15 min.
  2. Beat eggs, sugar, butter, and syrup. Stir in nuts. Bake 40-50 min. Shade crust if it begins to brown

 

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Swiss Turkey, Ham Bake

Swiss Turkey, Ham Bake
 
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Recipe type: casserole
Serves: 8 servings
Ingredients
  • ½ C chopped onion
  • 1 T butter
  • 3 T flour
  • ½ t salt and pepper
  • 1 can mushrooms
  • 1 C l/2 and ½
  • 2 T dry sherry
  • 2 C cubed turkey
  • 2 C cubed ham
  • 1 can sliced water chestnuts
  • ½ C shredded Swiss cheese
  • buttered bread crumbs
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400. Cook onion in butter. Blend in flour, salt, pepper. Add undrained mushrooms, cream, sherry. Cook, stirring until thickened. Add turkey, ham, water chestnuts. Pour into casserole, top with cheese and sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs. Cook for 25 min at 400 until lightly browned

 

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Flourless Chocolate Torte

Flourless Chocolate Torte
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 14-16 servings
Ingredients
  • 12 oz semisweet chocolate bits
  • 4 oz unsweetened chocolate chopped
  • 1 lb butter
  • 1 C expresso or strong coffee
  • 1C golden brown sugar
  • 8 eggs beaten to blend
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line 2 8" or one 10" cake pan with parchment paper
  2. Place all choc in a large bowl
  3. Bring butter, coffee, and sugar to a boil, stirring to dissolve. Add to chocolate and whisk to melt chocolate until smooth. Cool slightly. Add a bit of choc mix to eggs (to heat) then add all eggs to chocolate, stirring to combine. Pour into pan(s). Place on lipped cookie sheet with enough water to come ½ up side of pan. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs. Chill overnight. May be wrapped in parchment and tinfoil and frozen.

 

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Pavlova

Pavlova
 
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I like to make this after I make key lime pie because I have 4 eggs whites left over from that recipe (why waste them?)
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8 servings
Ingredients
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1¼ cups white sugar
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 1 t lemon juice
  • 2 t cornstarch
  • 1 pint heavy cream
  • whatever fruit is in season (strawberries, blueberries, peaches raspberries). If no fresh fruit is available, use lemon curd or fruit preserves.
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Draw a 9-inch circle with a pie plate on the parchment paper or make individual Pavlovas with a spoon.
  2. In a large bowl, beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gradually add in the sugar a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat until thick and glossy. Gently fold in vanilla extract, lemon juice, and cornstarch.
  3. Spoon mixture inside the circle drawn on the parchment paper. Working from the center, spread mixture toward the outside edge, building edge slightly. This should leave a slight depression in the center.
  4. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a wire rack.
  5. In a small bowl, beat heavy cream until stiff peaks form; set aside. Remove the paper, and place meringue on a flat serving plate. Fill the center of the meringue with whipped cream, and top with jam and or fruit.