Check out Eat At Home Cook’s site today for a spotlight on pudding mixes. Yum!!!
This is recipe number two in my Picture Perfect Cooking/Southern Plate Project and it is a keeper! My dad loves lemon-flavored desserts so I decided to try this one and I was not disappointed. It has a great buttery taste with a kick of lemon, but don’t worry about it being too strong. These bars strike the perfect balance of sweet and sour in my opinion.
For Crust:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
For Filling:
4 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 cup granulated sugar
4 tbsp powdered sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup flour
For crust:
Preheat oven to 350. Sift together flour and powdered sugar over the softened butter. Combine these until the mixture clings together. I just used my (clean) hands to do this so the crust would not get tough. Press into a greased 13×9 inch baking dish and bake for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
For the filling:
Beat the eggs until the yolks are completely broken and liquid. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine. Pour over the baked crust. Bake for 15 minutes or until slightly browned and set. My oven cooks slow so I had to cook mine for an extra 10 minutes, but check the bars after 15 to see if they are set. If not, cook at 5 minute increments until they no longer jiggle when the pan is moved. Cool and cut into bars. Enjoy!!
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A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that C & I were traveling for a few days. C had a work conference in Louisville, Kentucky, and I tagged along for a mini-vacation. There is nothing like a few days of resting, reading, watching tv in the hotel room, and eating out to refresh me! Don’t get me wrong, I love my home and it is always my first choice, but sometimes it is nice to get away from all of the chores and just relax!
Back to my story…I took my camera along, naturally, and I ended up with some pretty nice architecture shots in downtown. I had never really paid attention to all of the different styles of buildings; there are modern office buildings right along side older buildings with unique characteristics. The Aegon Center is probably my favorite building there.
I love the dome on top and during the Christmas season, it is lit with red and green lights. Also, check out the entrance on the left in the photo below. It is very art-deco.
C & I always enjoy going to Fourth Street Live while we are there. There are numerous restaurants and a few shops, too. One of my favorite places to browse is Borders Books & Music, but, alas, they are going out of business.
Here is a shot at night of Fourth Street Live from the other directions. You can see the Aegon Center in the background.
Back to the subject of a previous post, Bistro 301. I had wanted to try one of the independent restaurants in the downtown area and decided on this one. They have some good old stand-bys, such as steak, cheeseburgers, and fish & chips. They also have some dishes that you just don’t usually see in a chain restaurant, and the atmosphere was great. The name stems from their address, 301 West Market Street. Here is their entry:
I loved the old brick work in the interior…
Say “Hi” to C!!!
Then the food arrived! Every meal comes with a basket of French baguette with butter:
I ordered the crab cakes with romesco sauce and baby greens. It was so yummy!
Chad the steak and frites. It looked good, too!
I would definitely go back there again! I hope you enjoyed a little virtual tour of downtown Louisville! I will leave you with a few more photos.
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I have a love/hate relationship with coconut…I love the flavor but I hate the texture. To me, it is like chewing on candle wax, which is not very appetizing. When I found this recipe in the December/January 2011 issue of “Taste of Home” magazine, I knew I had to give it a try.
What is different about this coconut cake you ask? Well, I will tell you. Instead of using shredded coconut for the flavor, it uses coconut MILK!!! Woo hoo! The flavor without the texture!
Here is a little word to the wise…if you are shopping at Kroger in the south central Kentucky area, do not look for coconut milk in the baking aisle. I thought the logical place for it was with the sweetened condensed and evaporated milks. I mean it is coconut MILK, for goodness sake! Nope, it is in the foreign foods aisle. I learned that coconut milk is used a lot in Asian cuisine. There is a little trivia for you.
For the cake:
6 egg whites, room temperature
3/4 cup butter softened
1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup 2% milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 cup cake flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
For the syrup:
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
1 14oz can coconut milk (I used a 13.5 oz can and a little from the can for the cake.)
For the topping:
1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
3 tbsp confectioner’s sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
Place the egg whites in a large bowl and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 13×9” baking pan with non-stick spray.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the coconut milk, milk and vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
Add the flour mixture and milk mixture to the butter/sugar combo alternately, beginning and ending with the flour.
With clean beaters, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually fold the egg whites into the cake batter. Spread into the prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes.
Poke holes in the cake with a skewer about 1/2 inch apart. Combine the syrup ingredients; slowly pour over the cake, allowing the mixture to absorb into it. Let stand for 30 minutes. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
In a large bowl, beat the cream until it begins to thicken. Add the confectioner’s sugar and vanilla. Beat until soft peaks form. Spread over the cake.
Look how creamy the inside of this cake is!!
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It is another ingredient spotlight day at Eat At Home Cooks. Today’s main ingredient is tomato sauce.
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One of the blogs that I read regularly is Chickens In The Road. If you have not read this lady’s writing, you really need to! She is a former romance writer living “the simple life” on a West Virginia farm. She has chickens, goats, dogs, kids, and now a cow and calf. Her point of view is really entertaining and informative at the same time.
This recipe is from her blog and I think it is the first one of hers that I have tried. It was also a raging success! I do have one little note to make about these cookies…they are much softer the day they are made. The taste is still great on the second day, but they were a little too hard for my taste. When I fix these again, I may cut the cooking time down just a minute or two and see if that fixes my problem.
1 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup nuts, crushed or chopped (I used pecans.)
semi-sweet chocolate chips
powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla. Stir in the flour, cocoa and nuts.
Divide the dough in half and wrap the two balls in plastic wrap. Chill one hour.
Scoop spoonfuls of chilled cookie dough or slice it like I did. Flatten each into a circle and drop in 3 chocolate chips. Shape into balls, tucking the chips inside. Place on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes. While still warm, roll in powdered sugar and, as Suzanne says, eat in copious amounts!
Come join the fun at the My Baking Addiction and GoodLife Eats Holiday Recipe Swap sponsored by Scharffen Berger.
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