Hotdogs are not usually on our radar. Not since I made octopus hotdogs for toddler lunches. Now one toddler is 6'4"! But when I heard of hotdogs smothered in onions on a bed of melted cream cheese -- well, it was time to give that a try! Glad we did. We'll do that again. Serve with Sweet Slaw from cabbage grown by sister Bee. Wonderful!! Start with the onions. A medium to large onion sliced thinly. Throw in the one piece not thinly sliced so it can be front and center in the picture - optional. Preheat a smaller skillet with olive oil or butter, then add sliced onions. Cook until they turn brown and soft. In the meantime, cook a good beef hotdog, according to directions. Like -- put in boiling water until hot. But the directions can be more specific so take a look. Or ... [Read More]
Cream Cheese
Cheeseburger Dip
Everything you love about a cheeseburger in one creamy bite. Cheeseburger Dip has it all -- hearty beefy burger, creamy cheese, ketchup, mustard -- in one spoonful. Serve it on a cracker, scoop it with a chip, it's all good! Top it with bacon chunks for even more goodness. Cut the bacon into small pieces before browning. It will crisp faster that way. It also saves burned fingers because you won’t be trying to cut hot bacon into pieces. I add half the mustard because its not my favorite flavor so I would order my cheeseburger without, but you can go all out and add all the recipe calls for. If you brown your bought on sale hamburger before popping it into the freezer, measure out two cups browned ground beef and save yourself some time. You can use any cheddar cheese or even ... [Read More]
Mississippi Sin Dip
Mississippi Sin Dip is creamy, cheesy, flavorful and so sinfully good! I understand the "sin" part of the name, but not why Mississippi should get all the glory. But then I am woefully undereducated about Mississippi, My mother taught us to spell it: M I crooked letter crooked letter, I crooked letter crooked letter I poke bonnet poke bonnet I -- a rhyme drawn from her incredible store of oral tradition and folk stories. I can tell you that we were hundreds of miles from Mississippi's location on the Gulf Coast and this still tasted sinfully good. It's sinfully easy to make, too. You can bake it in a dish, but the bread bowl makes a special presentation. Use the bread chunks torn from the inside of the loaf for dipping and when the dip is halfway gone -- start tearing chunks off ... [Read More]
Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake
This Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake is the BEST cheesecake recipe ever baked. The toasted pecan crust has just the right flavor to set it apart from the run of the mill crust. The cheesecake is divinely creamy, so very rich and smooth. Make it plain without swirls and it is deliciously decadent. Add the subtle flavor of strawberries for the essence of spring amidst the decadance. Add beautiful deep pink swirls and you have a feast for the eyes – which makes the cheesecake taste even more wonderful. I told you my quest for St Paddy’s cheesecake led to me to developing two wonderful cheesecake recipes. The Ultimate No Bake Cheese cake. And this one. The secret is in the pecans added to the crust and the rich addition of a quarter cup of heavy cream. Skip either one and you have a ... [Read More]
The Ultimate No Bake Cheesecake
The Ultimate no Bake Cheesecake started out in January to be a St. Patrick’s Day post. Cheesecake with a St. Paddy twist. Sounds good, right? Wrong. Total. Fail. Forget St. Patrick’s Day – this was personal now! Never one to back away from a challenge, I stirred my way through many cheesecakes searching for THE recipe that tasted great, looked good and came out the same every. single.time. Strangely, my taste testers never complained. They just urged me to keep trying. But that team effort paid off. I created a wonderful baked cheesecake – coming soon. And then this no bake winner! The Ultimate No Bake Cheesecake! This is a soft cheesecake. Meaning, the cheesecake holds its shape well, but does not have the fork firmness especially associated with baked cheesecake. ... [Read More]
Cream Cheese Banana Bread
Banana Bread becomes a necessity around here once in a while when the bananas don’t get eaten as quickly as predicted in the grocery store. It’s a classic supply and demand situation. The supply quickly exceeds the demand when schedules change, the supply of other fruit surges or whims of resident banana consumers shift with the Nebraska “breezes”. That’s anything less than 55 miles per hour – which is considered a blizzard force only if accompanied by snow. But that’s another story. . . . The idea of Cream Cheese and Bananas kept tickling my fancy – maybe you could say it was blowing in the wind. No, no – must concentrate. Anyway, I found a couple of recipes and mooshed them together, then tweaked the results. I baked them last night and the aroma that gently swept through the ... [Read More]