Black Bean Hummus

Black Bean Hummus

Ingredients:

1 can Black beans, drained

1/2 clove garlic

1 tsp lime juice

1/2 tsp cumin [She used roasted cumin.]

1/2 T of olive oil

1/4 C Salsa

Place drained black beans in blender.

Add the garlic, lime juice, cumin, olive oil and salsa into blender.

Pulse blender on and off to make a sauce consistency.  As it blends, may let blender run.

Watch closely.  Don't want to over blend yet do want to thoroughly mix ingredients.

Pour and scrape into a dipping bowl or storage bowl.  Store in refrigerator, covered.

Serve with tortilla dip chips or similar chip.

Hot Chocolate Slow Cooker

Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate

Prep:     5 Min

Cook:  2 Hours Low Setting

Serves:  12  (1 Cup Servings)

Ingredients

1 1/2    Cups Heavy cream

1 Can (14oz) sweetened condensed milk

6 Cups milk

1 tsp vanilla

2 Cups  Semi-Sweet chocolate chips

In slow cooker, stir together heavy cream, milk, vanilla and chocolate chips.

Cover and cook on loaw for 2 hours, stirring occasionally--until mixture is hot and chocolate chips are melted.

Stir again before serving.

Top with your favorite flavors:  marshmallows, cinnamon and so on.

Refrigerate any leftovers.

                                                                    From:  Kroger

Pie Pumpkin Christmas 2014 Cindy

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie (Uses Fresh Pumpkin)

By HeatherFeather on December 13, 2004

Photo by pooknnook

59 Reviews

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• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Servings: 8

About This Recipe

"This is the one pumpkin pie recipe I keep coming back to year after year. I was at a military ladies' coffee when I first tasted this pie, and it was the most moist & eggy pumkpin pie I had ever eaten. I asked the hostess, Barb, for the recipe, and she shared the recipe with me - which I believe came from her mother. I made my own changes to the recipe over the years and now I have written down my changes so that I can share my version with you. I only use fresh pumpkin in this recipe and it is well worth the little bit of extra effort. PLEASE NOTE: This recipe calls for a DEEP DISH pie plate and intended to be a egg custard textured pie. Even using a deep dish pie plate, you may still find you have a small amount of extra batter, as some deep dish pans are larger and deeper than others (mine fits all of the batter in one pie). You can use whole milks in this if you prefer, however I like the lighter taste of the skim in this. If you only have small pie plates, then you might want to prepare an extra pastry round and divide the batter between two smaller pies."

Ingredients 

• 1 unbaked 9-inch deep dish pie pastry ( 9-10-inch)
• 2 cups freshly cooked pumpkin, seeded, peeled, mashed
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3 large eggs, beaten lightly
• 1 (12 ounce) cans evaporated skim milk
• 1/2 cup skim milk

Directions

1. (To make your own freshly cooked pumpkin, quarter 1-2 small pie pumpkins, de-stem, seed and de-string them. Then steam them in a steamer over boiling water until very tender--the skin will peel right off. Then mash them using a stick blender or a food processor-hand mashing will somtimes produce lumps/strings so unless you like that, go for the stick blender/processor).
2. Preheat oven to 400°F and have ready a pie shield and a large rimmed cookie sheet.
3. Line a DEEP DISH glass pie plate with the pie pastry round, fluting the edges decoratively as desired.

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Directions

4. Combine in order the pumpkin, sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
5. Lightly beat eggs together with both milks, then add to the pumpkin mixture, stirring well to combine--it will be rather thin.
6. Pour as much filling as you can into unbaked pie pastry and bake at 400°F for 50 minutes (or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out without any goo on it). If there is any extra filling use to fill a smaller mini pie plate or discard.
7. NOTE: Set cookie sheet on the rack below the rack you are setting your pie plate on in order to catch any drips.
8. If the pie edges start overbrowning, place a pie shield or a ring of foil over the edges--this will be needed or not depending on the type of pastry you use.
9. Pie should be served chilled and should be stored in the refrigerator.

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Cookies German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars

German Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars        from: Nancy Mullins 2014 1031

Preheat oven: 350 Degrees

Line 9 x 13 pan with Reynolds wrap, leaving some extra at each end.  Use Pam or grease foil.  Set aside.

Slightly toast: 3 C pecans in the preheated oven for about 5 to 8 minutes until they become aromatic..  Place in a single layer on a baking sheet slightly spritzed with cooking spray.  Stir once or twice.  Watch carefully as they burn quickly.  Remove and let cool.

Mix in food processor:
1 3/4 C Flour
3/4 C Confectioners sugar
3/4 C (Cold cubed) butter
1/4 C Cocoa

Press into prepared pan and up sides a bit.

Bake: 15 minutes.

Sprinkle: Upon removing from oven, sprinkle

1 ½ C Chocolate chips on “crust.”

Allow to cool 30 minutes or more.

Mix well:
3 lg Eggs
3/4 C Light brown sugar packed
3/4 C Light corn syrup.  (Nancy used dark corn syrup)
1/4 C Melted butter

*Some recipes call for a 1/4 C bourbon.
 May add vanilla to taste.


Stir in:
1 C Coconut
3 C The toasted pecan halves

Pour: Into prepared foiled pan

Bake: 30 minutes

Cool: 1 hour.

Lift from pan by using foil ends and place on cutting board.  Cut with sharp knife.  Nancy used a pizza cutter.  Her instructions said to refrigerate but she didn’t.

Honey Wheat Bread in Bread Machine

Honey Wheat Bread/Rolls

You can make into loaf or into rolls.  You can bake loaf in bread machine or remove and bake in your own separate loaf pan.

Ingredients:
2 C     Water
2 3/4 C  Bread Flour
2 C     Whole Wheat Flour  [I like Hogsdon Mill]
3 T     Honey
1 1/2 t     Salt
2 T     Butter
2 t     Active dry yeast.  [I have lately been using yeast for whole wheat flour but other
                     yeast works just as well.]
4 t     Vital Wheat gluten.

Place ingredients in bread machine according to machine diretions.

This can be made in a stand mixer.  Follow mixer directions for making dough.

Use the dough setting with double rise.*
*If going to bake in the bread machine, choose the wheat setting, set it and let the machine work.

If using own pans or making rolls:  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Once the machine is through raising the dough, remove dough to lightly floured surface.  Punch down and shape as desired.  Place on greased pan and cover lightly with cloth.  Let rise in warm place for 30 to 40 minutes.

Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until desired doneness.

For those wishing more protein, a tablespoon of whey protein isolate can be added.