ORANGE CREAM CHEESE CAKE
CRUST:
1 1/2 c. graham cracker crumbs
3 tbsp. butter, melted
2 tbsp. sugar
FILLING:
2 eggs, separated
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. orange extract
1 thin rind of orange
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. cream cheese
Heat oven to 300 degrees. Mix crust ingredients together; press into a springform pan. Mix egg yolks, sugar, orange extract, rind, vanilla and half of the cream cheese into mixing bowl. Mix at high speed until smooth.Beat egg whites until stiff in separate bowl. Fold cheese mixture into the egg whites. Pour into crumb crust and bake for 55 minutes. Cool for 2 or 3 hours. Remove springform rim before serving.
How To Cook a Turkey
| How to cook a turkey. This is how you’ll be cooking turkey from this day forward! No more fighting for the dark meat because the white meat is just as moist! | |||
| Preheat the oven to 475°F. This is not a typo! I will explain later. | |||
| Melt some butter. | |||
Now the part that some people find a bit gross. But it is essential! Gently separate the skin from the breast but don’t remove it. You just want to be able to get your hand between the skin the breast meat. Your goal is to rub that melted butter on to the turkey breast between the breast skin and the meat. You might want to use a rubber glove. Don’t butter the outside of the skin.
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This part is optional. But I recommend putting some Rosemary and Thyme again between the breast skin and the meat. I’ve used fresh and dried and I can’t really notice the difference. I wouldn’t go overboard. Just use a little bit. If you think it needs a little more you can always add more the next time you cook a turkey. |
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| Lightly Salt and Pepper all the skin on the outside. This will help make the skin crisp! | |||
| Don’t place stuffing in the turkey! Stuffing plays havoc with cooking times and is a recognized health hazard. Cook your stuffing separately in a cater…e winsserole dish and be safe. | |||
| Place the turkey in a covered roasting pan place in the oven preheated to 475°F for 20 minutes. Our goal here is to “seal the bird” to help keep it juicy. | |||
| Reduce the heat to 250°F. This again is not a typo! Don’t let anybody tell you that the temperature has to be higher for it to get done. The reason that turkey is so often very dry is that it’s overcooked. We want to slow cook the turkey. Click Here to find out about concerns when slow-cooking a turkey. | |||
| Cook the turkey at 250°F for 20 additional minutes for each pound. No basting is necessary. | |||
| Many variables come into play when cooking a turkey. The only way to be absolutely sure that your turkey is fully cooked is to use a quality meat thermometer. Interior breast meat should be 170°F and 180°F for thigh meat. Using a meat thermometer is particularly important if you are roasting the turkey a high elevations since it will take longer but there is no rule of thumb to predict how much longer. | |||
| Remove the turkey from the oven and allow it to rest uncovered for at least 20 minutes before carving it. This allows the juices to redistribute themselves inside the turkey making the turkey even more juicy, delicious, and easier to carve. |
Apple Sauce Cake
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
1 (4-serving size) vanilla instant pudding
1 c. apple sauce
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. oil
4 eggs
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 c. raisins, finely chopped
1 (4-serving size) vanilla instant pudding
1 c. apple sauce
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. oil
4 eggs
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 c. raisins, finely chopped
Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl. Blend well, then beat at medium speed with electric mixer for 4 minutes. Pour into 2 greased and floured 8 x 4 inch loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes. Do not underbake. Cool in pan for 15 minutes. Remove from pan and finish cooling on rack.
Thai-spiced Pumpkin Soup Recipe
eep in mind that different Thai curry pastes have differing strengths. Start with a teaspoon to start and then build from there until the soup has a level of spiciness and flavor that works for your palete. Top with toasted pumpkin seeds.
2 acorn squash, pumpkins, or other smallish winter squash
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1 14-ounce can coconut milk
1 teaspoon (or more) red Thai curry paste
water
2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt (or to taste)
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and place the oven racks in the middle.
Carefully cut each squash/pumpkin into halves (or quarters). Slather each piece of squash with butter, sprinkle generously with salt, place on a baking sheet skin sides down, and place in the oven. Roast for about an hour or until the squash is tender throughout.
When the pumpkin/squash are cool enough to handle scoop it into a large pot over medium high heat. Add the coconut milk and curry paste and bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat and puree with a hand blender, you should have a very thick base at this point. Now add water a cup at a time pureeing between additions until the soup is the consistency you prefer – a light vegetable stock would work here as well. Bring up to a simmer again and add the salt (and more curry paste if you like, I used just shy of 6 teaspoons but the curry paste I use is not over-the-top spicy).
Serves six.
You voted for it…cont
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” –Barack Obama
“wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in her car and wouldn’t have to worry about paying her mortgage.” –Obama Supporter
Our military air raids villages and kills civilians! –Barack Obama
It’s not Socialism, not wanting to pay higher taxes is selfishness. –Barack Obama
“it is patriotic to pay higher taxes” –Joe Biden
“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” –Joe Biden
“A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!” –Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama
“There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11.” –Joe Biden, on Rudy Giuliani
“I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson’s endorsement, there’s an Amen in every sentence he says too.” –Joe Biden
“I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There’s no shame in being tested for AIDS. It’s an important thing.”
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent…. I’m not joking.” –Joe Biden
“Look, when I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” — Barack Obama
Massachusetts Marijuana Initiative
Massachusetts…voted for Obama
BOSTON (AP) — After Massachusetts voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, top law enforcement officials are scrambling to figure out what they need to do to put the law into effect – despite their efforts to defeat it at the polls.
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who joined all 11 of the state’s district attorneys in opposing the ballot question, said Wednesday she was working to determine exactly what it will require the legal system to do.
