Monday Recipes ...Granny's Chocolate Pie




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This recipe is near and dear to our hearts my Ox loved his Granny's cooking she was a down home southern cookin lady and nothing came out of her kitchen that wasn't the epitome of the south.. Now I had never heard of chocolate pie?? chocolate silk pie, yes, but my Ox said," You haven't had nothing like Granny's Chocolate Pie its the best thing you'll ever taste," and he was gall darn right I was smitten my first bite..I could eat the whole pie if my family would let me, but they always say I have to share,( I always have the sneaky notion to say Why I made it) I always make two though because between the 5 of us just one pie will not do and most of the time two doesn't suffice... This Chocolate Pie is on the table at every family gathering in this house first in foremost to celebrate Granny's Memory ... but have to say for everyone eating it, its the joy of devouring this delicious pie

Granny's Chocolate Pie

1 1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
4 Tbsp. corn starch
1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups Half and Half
3 egg yolks

-Have one prepared pie crust ready *** remember homemade is always best, take the extra time you will be a lot happier :)**
-add every things except yolks to a high sided sauce pan
-(please have whisk in hand stirring this mixture at all times it might be a good pie but a tasking pie to make)
-cook over medium heat until thick
-(this will take a while)
-remove from heat and temper in those egg yolks remember to temper you don't want chocolate scrambled eggs
-return pan to burner over medium heat return mixture to boil for one minute
-remove from heat
+++mix in 1 Tbsp. of butter and 1 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract to chocolate
-and pour into pie crust
-best to chill over night but at least 3 hours
those three extra egg whites can be turned into meringue and baked on top... my family does not like meringue so I don't make it ....also cool whip is an alternative topping...  my family is easy they just want the chocolate all of it

Friday Foto***Hard At Work***

Thursday Life Moments...Adele

Life Moments...catalogue of My Favorites

Song I could listen to all day

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Crochet Rose Afghan----Hump Day Hookerry

Hi y'all, Well as you know I've been under the weather... I thought if I worked real hard, I could get one of my projects completed today for a post but I'm out of time and out of luck ...but that puts well everyone in luck I told myself I would post old projects that were completed before I started blogging if this was to happen so I'm just a teency weency bit excited to show you my favorite afghan I have ever crocheted ...but wait lets back up and tell a little story about it first ...I have recently moved  ... many precious memories were left behind...well I am still not quite over this move thingy that has jostled me out of our house...  when my Ox told me that there might be a possibility of a move  I was outside walking my rose garden let me take you for a walk through my rose garden....

...these roses aren't just any roses My husband gave them to me through the years at our house for Mother's Day I am not fond of cut flowers I would much rather have plants I can plant and enjoy year after year so my Ox did just that for me

                          

Well walking through my rose garden that day feeling heart broken of what I'd have to leave behind ... I had a epiphany I can take my roses with me

 

 Now I can always have my rose garden!!!

Tuesday Thinkers 'Lafayette"

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de la Fayette (September 6 1757 – May 20 1834) was a French and American military officer and aristocrat who participated in the American revolution as a general and served in the Estates General and the subsequent National Constituent Assembly in the early phases of the French revolution.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Letter to his father-in-law, the Duc d'Ayan (4 December 1776), as quoted in George Washington's Generals and Opponents : Their Exploits and Leadership (1994) by George Athan Billias, p. 219

Monday Recipes

Something has hit me like a mack truck and I am sick not just a tiny sick a whole hornets nest sick yesterday I didn't want to do anything but still accomplished 6 loads of laundry, dusting of the ceiling fans, a general scrubbing of the bathrooms, and cleaning out of the fridge and ...a terrible rant text to my husband but I'm not very happy about that one, also cooked a pretty good dinner of Salisbury steak that I tried to eat but couldn't the sickness was making me queasy even though I was starving the food smelled so good...the steak was supposed to have cream of mushroom soup as the base of the gravy..but...I wasn't running to the store I knew I couldn't be less than five minutes from the bathroom all day so the steak didn't have the cream of mushroom soup in the gravy... Ox said it didn't need the can of cream of mushroom my homemade gravy was way better ..don't know if that was true or if he was just being nice due to me being drop dead sick.... once I feel better I'll remake it and see if its any good before I post the recipe...


So I have figured out in my house its easier to assign things to cook on certain days so I don't have to think about it I have all ready shared how Sunday Pancakes had started going back to my childhood than ...Waffle Wednesday started because I was dieing for a waffle maker and my husband said if I buy this for you it better be used and not shoved in a cabinet never to be seen again so I kept my word by using it once a week ...well than came Muffin Monday it has been my way to incorporate fruits dried and fresh and bran and also flax seed to try to have my kids get some extra things in there diet if its in muffin form I found out they'll eat it .. and just recently French Toast Friday was started... Stitch asked for french toast a little while ago and said I love these you need to make these every week that sounded good to me so French Toast Friday began..Tuesday and Thursday we do eggs and something could be toast or grits but you get the picture I have breakfast covered and don't have to go what are we having today ...Saturdays usually are homemade biscuits but not every sometimes I'm lazy

Sunday a Kid Favorite
Chocolate Chip Pancakes

From http://joythebaker.com/2008/12/milk-chocolate-chip-buttermilk-pancakes/

Milk Chocolate Buttermilk Pancakes

adapted from BlogChef

makes lots, enough for four people.

2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
½ teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2- 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips (depending on how chippy you feel)

oil or cooking spray (for cooking)

Step 1: In a large bowl beat eggs. Add buttermilk, butter and vanilla and mix well. Add flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix well until mostly smooth. Fold in chocolate chips and let batter set for a few minutes.
Step 2: Heat griddle or pan over medium heat. Add a teaspoon of oil to the pan or spray with cooking spray. You can test to see if the pan is hot enough by adding a few drops of water, ifor when the drops start to dance its hot enough.
Step 3: Pour 2 Tablespoons of batter onto the griddle. Cook on the first side until bubbles that form start to pop. You can also gently lift up the pancake to make sure the bottom is not overcooking, if it is the pan may be too hot and you will need to adjust the heat. Flip the pancake over with a spatula and cook until golden brown. Repeat until all the batter is gone. Let cooked pancakes rest on a heat proof plate in a 200 degree F oven until ready to serve.

Waffle Wednesday

This is my favorite basic waffle recipe

Recipe Fromhttp://allrecipes.com/recipe/waffles-i/

WAFFLES

2 eggs

 2 cups all-purpose flour

 1 3/4 cups milk

 1/2 cup vegetable oil

 1 tablespoon white sugar

 4 teaspoons baking powder

 1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat waffle iron. Beat eggs in large bowl with hand beater until fluffy. Beat in flour, milk, vegetable oil, sugar, baking powder, salt and vanilla, just until smooth.
2. Spray preheated waffle iron with non-stick cooking spray. Pour mix onto hot waffle iron. Cook until golden brown. Serve hot.

FRENCH TOAST FRIDAY

My Recipe for French Toast which is as basic as it comes

One Loaf of the Cheap White Bread**

** I hate White Bread but this is the only kind of bread I use for French Toast I've tried others white is what I like

I use a shallow glass Pie Plate to mix in it works best because the bread isn't floating in the egg mixture

Lots of butter for frying  in our frying pan on med low

Egg Mixture

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

2 tablespoons of sugar

dash on cinnamon or nutmeg I've also used all spice in a pinch

1 teas Vanilla extract

give the mixture a whirl with a whisk

take a piece of bread dunk one side and flip dunk the other side in egg mixture pull up and hold over bowl for a sec I do this just so I don't have a trail of drippings from the bowl to the pan  lay the bread in the pan cook till golden brown flip and turn to the other side and do the same that's it quick and easy

So there ya have it ..a little peak into my routine...of course Just Like the Pancakes The Waffles and The Muffins are never the same each week because what fun is THAT??

Friday Foto "Spring"

FRUIT BLOSSOM

From Blossoms

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

- Li-Young Lee