I Want to try YOUR recipes!!

Hi everyone!
Craving Comfort has been kinda slow over the past month.
I had some surgery that resulted in me having to be on a liquid diet for three weeks! Eeeek!
So... cooking has been kinda sparse 'round these parts!
But things are getting back to normal!

Tonight I'll be posting a killer man-pleasing recipe your family is sure to enjoy!

On another note....
I'm looking for guests recipes!
Have a great Comfort Food recipe you'd like to share on craving comfort?
Maybe a favorite Holiday Recipe?

I'd love to feature YOUR recipes!

e-mail me at Dana@HomesteadingHousewife.com for details!

I'm excited to try some of YOUR recipes!

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Chewy Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

Chocolate and Peanut Butter.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate.
A perfect combination.
These cookies are super easy, and super yummy!


I've had this recipe forever, I'm not sure where it came from.
It is one of our favorites...
Now it can be yours too!

Enjoy!

Chewy Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips.

makes about 54 cookies

• 1 1/4 cups butter or margarine, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup un-sweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups peanut butter chips
  or semi-sweet chocolate chips (12 oz. pkg.)

1. Heat oven to 350°.
2. In large mixer bowl; cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
4. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually blend into creamed mixture. Stir in peanut butter or chocolate chips.
5. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-9 minutes. (Do not overbake; cookies will be soft. They will puff while baking and flatten while cooling.).
6. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely.
7. Enjoy!
   

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Up-Side Down Lemon Meringue Pie (Lemon Clouds)

Oh Dear.....
Here we go...
I'm gonna try to tell you about this recipe without drooling on my keyboard, drool just isn't good for electronics.


Wanna make something different than you've ever made before?
Wanna eat something lemony?
Wanna make something impressive?
Wanna eat something that is so rich it'll curl your toes?

A delightfully rich and Lemon filling nestled inside a melt-in-your-mouth crisp meringue shell.


Up-Side Down Lemon Meringue Pie (Lemon Clouds)
serves 8

Ingredients

Meringue Crust/Shell
4 egg whites (room temperature)
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Lemon Filling
5 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
4 Tablespoons lemon juice
zest of 1 lemon
1 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions

meringue shell

1. Beat 4 eggs whites.
2. add cream of tartar. continue beating.
3. gradually add sugar 2 tablespoons at a time until 1 cup has been added.
4. Continue beating until you have fluffy stiff peaks.
5. Spread meringue into the bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch GREASED pie pan. (or use a greased cookie sheet and make individual sized "clouds" smoothing them bowl shape)
6. Bake at 275 degrees f for 1 hour. allow to cool in the oven with the door slightly ajar.

Lemon filling

1. whip 5 egg yolks with a fork or whisk until well combined.
2. stir in 1/2 cup sugar and 4 Tablespoons lemon juice.
3. pour into a small sauce pan, cool over low heat, stirring constantly until thickened (your looking for a nice kinda thick pancake consistency)
4. cool completely.
5. once your custard is cool.... Whip one cup heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
6. fold the cooled custard mixture and lemon zest into the whipped cream.
7. Pour into meringue shell/clouds
   
8. chill thoroughly, garnish with whipped cream dollops and lemon zest.
9. Enjoy!!
   

This is a VERY rich dessert....
Small slices and/or clouds are the way to go.

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Hasselback Potatoes

Aren't these impressive looking potatoes?
Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, perfection.
They are called Hasselback Potatoes,

Hasselback Potatoes are super easy to make.

And, I'm gonna show you how!


Hasselback Potatoes

Ingredients:

• medium size baking potatoes.
• Olive Oil
• Salt & Pepper
• Butter
  
• Garlic slivers, onion slivers, any spices you'd like to sprinkle on your potatoes.
  

Directions -

1. Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Wash potatoes well.
3. Lay each potato on a cutting board.
4. With a sharp knife, thinly slice each potato, being careful to NOT CUT all the way through. (***TIP: I lay a chopstick on each side of the potato so I don't accidentally cut too far.***)
5. Season each potato. This is where you can get creative, slide a sliver of garlic between the layers, experiment with different herbs, Butter, Use whatever sounds good to you!.
6. Place potatoes in a baking dish that has been drizzled with Olive Oil.
7. Drizzle potatoes with olive oil.
8. Bake @ 425 for 40 min, or until the inside is tender.
9. Enjoy!
   

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