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Nancy, I am looking for a chocolate cream pie recipe. I had a piece of one that was dark in color, yet sweet, and very creamy - the best I've ever had. Could anyone help me out please?
Gay
I have two teenage children at home this summer while I am at work. I am worried about where they are traveling and who they are talking to on the internet. Could you suggest a program that tracks them. I don't want to be distrustful of them but do want to know where they have been on the net.
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A Sheet of Bounce will: (this is new)
1. It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them.
2. It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.
3. Repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop outdoors during mosquito season.
4. Eliminates static electricity from your television screen. Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
5. Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
6. Freshen the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang in the closet.
7. Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.
8. Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
9. Freshen the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat
10. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean.
The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food
11. Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.
12. Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
13. Eliminate static electricity from venetian blinds. Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
14. Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
15. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
16. Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.
17. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.
This is a message for gary in San Francisco.
gary I know how you feel. I lost my cat Tootsy in August last year. She was a very old friend but I didn't know she had a heart murmur and she went to the vet to be cured and died there all on her own. I hope you always have fond thoughts of Lady kitty Tuxedo. Maybe you need to get another friend now.
Tracey
In response to Does anyone know of a website on "How To Arrange Cut Flowers"?
ShirlRiv
Here are some sites I found doing a search w/ www.askjeeves.com:
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Basic Flower Arrangements: Ask Jeeves Answer
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Here is a pie recipe that perhaps Diane is looking for. I make it for company when I am on weight watchers and no one knows it is low in calories.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
4 T. peanut butter
1 1/2 cups crispy cereal (I used rice krispies)
1 T. Honey
I pkg. low fat instant chocolate pudding
Combine honey and peanut butter in microwave to melt for 20 seconds
Stir in the cereal.
Line a small 8" pie tin with mixture to form a crust.
Make some low fat chocolate pudding with skim miulk and pour into shell. (Or you can use cooked pudding but let it cool slightly before adding to crust)
Chill. For Weight Watchers: 1/4 pie is 4 points.
Jan in Las Vegas
Nancy do you or any of your readers know how to make the carrot casserole or souffle they have served at Furr's. It was light and sweet and so good. It was a side dish along with the beans,spinach etc. Thank you for all the wonder full recipes.
Buttercup106@...
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Hi Nancy- this is Patricia from Montana again. I was recently given a 3 pound box of Superfino Arborio rice. I am seeking some recipes for it. I have cooked it with Chicken Broth and chunks of chicken and it is delicious. I would welcome some recipes for this Authentic Italian Rice and thanking your readers in advance- Patricia
For Diane from Linda in Arizona
This is basically what you described, but it also has bananas. The bananas
could probably be omitted. You could fatten it up also by using regular
pudding and regular Cool Whip.
KRISPY CHOCOLATE BANANA PIE
Crust:
6 T. peanut butter
1 T. honey
2 C. Rice Krispies
Mix peanut butter with honey. Mix in Rice Krispies. Press into pie plate
with metal spoon, building up the edge.
Filling:
2 bananas
1 box sugar free chocolate pudding
2 1/4 C. milk
Slice bananas over crust. Mix pudding with milk and spread over bananas.
Topping:
Light Cool Whip
Top with Cool Whip.
As a young bride I would purchase "Hermit Bars". They are no longer on the cookie shelf and I would love a recipe for them. Can anyone help me? Also my husband talks of visiting a fellow AirForce buddy in Marshalltown, IA, and his mother made a potato salad they he really liked and it had catsup in it. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Thank you all so much for the interesting and fun newsletter -- cudoes to Nancy.
Jptorg
I just requested recipe for Hermit Bars and then looked for myself on the King Arthur Flour site and found the recipe I wanted. I would like the recipe for Potato Salad with catsup in the dressing however. Thank you.
Jptorg
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This was given out at weight watchers: 1/4 of the pie is 4 points! (16
points total)
PEANUT BUTTER PIE
4 tablespoons of peanut butter
1 tablespoon of honey
1 points in small bowl combine both and microwave on high 20 seconds;
add.
1 1/2 cups rice krispies (stir into peanut/honey mixture)
Press into 9" pie plate and chill. then mix together:
1 package of instant Fat F ree, Sugar F ree Chocolate pudding (4 1/2 cup
servings)
2 cups of skim milk
spread pudding over the cooled crust top with:
4 tablespoons whipped topping (fat f ree)
Keep refrigerated.
Hi Nancy. I know that you are busy and that you just got back from visiting your brother but I need a big favor. A while back you had sent out a newsletter that had a Master Cake Mix for Microwaves. I don't remember what it was called and I printed it out at the time, and now have misplaced it. We go camping a lot and I think that having the master mix made up before hand would be useful as it only makes a single layer cake as I recall. The mix also listed the ingredients to finish making it into a cake. I can't find it anywhere. I did try and go searching in the past newsletters but gave up after awhile. Please if you can help me with this or know what I am talking about I would appreciate finding out where to go to look for it. Thanks Linda in Grass Valley.
For Marie from Linda in Arizona
PIÑA COLADA POUND CAKE
1 (18.25 oz.) box yellow cake mix
1 small box instant coconut pudding mix
1/2 C. water
4 eggs
1/4 C. oil
1 (6 oz.) can frozen pineapple juice, thawed
1/3 C. rum
1 1/2 C. sifted confectioners' sugar
2 T. toasted coconut
Grease and lightly flour a 10-inch tube pan.
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, water, oil, eggs and 1/3 cup juice concentrate in large bowl. Combine ingredients with electric mixer on low speed. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour into prepared cake pan. Bake at 350ºF for 45 to 50 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool for 10 minutes in pan on wire rack. Remove cake from pan. Place on wire rack over a tray.
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine confectioners' sugar and juice concentrate; bring to boiling point. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Add rum. Prick holes in top of cake with fork tines. Spoon syrup slowly over top and sides of cake, allowing syrup to soak into cake. Sprinkle with toasted coconut. Cool cake thoroughly.
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Ritz Cracker Pie
Thanks! so much to the people that responded for my request for this recipe. I have not made it yet...but intend to soon. I have asked around for a long time with no results and was hoping someone would know of it with this message board. Again thank you!
~Susan~
I made this cake today but when I was mixing it up I noticed that the directions said to cream the sugar and butter or margarine. The recipe did not have an amount for the sugar, so I used about 1/2 to 3/4 c. of sugar. Seemed to work all right. Thought you might want to know something's missing from this recipe. Thanks for the website.
Judy
Marie was wanting a Pina Coloda Cake, here's my recipe, I don't know if it's what's she's searching for but am glad to share:
1/2 cup dark rum (80) proof
1 pkg Coconut Cream Flavor Instant Pudding and pie filling
1 pkg white cake mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup oil
1 cup flaked coconut
Blend all ingredient. except coconut in large bowl. Beat 4 min. at med. speed of mixer. Pour into greased and floured bundt pan (or you may use a 9x13 in. pan that I prefer), bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 for long pan or until cake spring back when lightly pressed. Do Not Underbake. Cool and frost; sprinkle with coconut. Chill.
Frosting: Combine 1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple in juice, 1 pkg Jello Coconut Cream Flavor Instant Pudding and Pie Filling and 1/3 cup dark rum in bowl; beat until well blended. Fold in container (9 oz) frozen whipped topping thawed.
Hope you enjoy this!
Patsy (MaPat)
I am looking for some sort of cookie with cream filling between. Remind you of old time Chocolate cream filled pies...used to be made
by Royal. These treats are from Pennsylvania I believe.
Thanks. Judy Cavender
Someone was looking for a good recipe for sweet dill pickles Here is one I useSomeone gave me this recipe a few years back. .Buy a jar of sliced Dill Pickles, drain all the liquid off and add sugar in layers. Turn till sugar is dissolved. Refrigerate and serve. Very good Louise Clark
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Do you know of any pudding recipe that uses coconut milk? Please email me.
Thanks, Shereen
Was wondering if you or anyone out there has a recipe for orange muffins. Have eaten them in restaurants, but never seen a recipe for them or even a mix for them. Love your site and all the good recipes. Thanks for your good work. Jeanette
Hi Nancy,
Yesterday I received an e-mail and it was from nancyskitchen Lets Be Friends and contained a virus and my Norton Virus would not let me open it. Do you know anything about it? I love your news letter and will be more careful now. Thanks, Pat
Comment:
No email was sent from Nancy's Kitchen yesterday. I update my virus checker daily and run a complete scan of my computer each night. I do not have anybody in my address book as well. It is highly improbable that one came from my computer. It is more probable that a virus was "spoofed" from my address. This means it appears to be sent from my address but was not. Many of the viruses out there attach to an unread mail sitting in your email box and makes it appear it is from another address. It is important to keep your virus checker current and to run it frequently. My virus checker checks both incoming and outgoing mail. I also have virus protection on all mail that comes through AmarilloOnline.
I friend updated their virus checker faithfully on a daily basis but when I looked at her virus checker she had never done a virus scan of her system in over a year and a half. After the virus scan was done she had over 20 viruses on her computer. Just because you have a virus checker on your computer it doesn't automatically run unless it is set it up that way. It doesn't update on a daily basis if it isn't set up that was as well. Norton 2003 protects viruses coming through Yahoo Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger.
This weekend my DIL served steak tips from the Roche Bros. (MA grocery store) ready-to-eat section. The listed ingredients were steak tips, Caesar dressing, Coca Cola, garlic, and salt and pepper. Does anyone have a similar recipe? Thanks.
Margie
I was wondering if you can freeze all read cooked cabbage
thanx in advance
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This is for ssomar13@...
This is how I do Candied Dills.
1 gallon jar Dill pickles ( I buy them at Sam's or BJ)
Sugar
Drain the dill pickles and save the brine. Slice the dills length wise
and cut them into fourths. Place the spears into quart jars and then start working in the sugar you really need to get in each jar as much as possible (I keep working it with a knife) It will always take a little more. Pour the brine into the quart jar. Place in the fridge and shake them up everyday until the sugar has melted. Leave in fridge for a month before using.
These are wonderful and easy.
Rita
In response to:
I am looking for a reduced fat (not fat free) Garlic Italian dressing recipe. We have lots of fresh garden lettuce. I would also love a pasta salad dressing recipe.
For the person looking for a REDUCED Fat Garlic Italian Dressing. I got this off of Weight Watchers. Just add as much garlic to it as you want.........can't have too much!
Reduced Fat Creamy Italian Dressing
From the kitchen of NORITA65
servings | 9
estimated POINTS per serving | 1
Ingredients
6 TBSP. Kraft Classic Italian Vinaigrette Dressing (regular)
2 TBSP Kraft FF Mayonnaise
Instructions
Blend two ingredients together, thoroughly. Store in small cruet with tight stopper or small bottle with lid in refrigerator as you store any salad dressing after it has been opened. 1 TBSP=1 POINT; 2 TBSP=2 POINTS.
Special Notes
I couldn't find a reduced fat Creamy Italian Dressing, and decided to make my own. I like this better than the "store bought" dressing I used to use and one tablespoon is sufficient dressing for a small salad. Very satisfying. Enjoy!
Linda
ShirlRiv asked about websites for arranging cut flowers. If she will go to "Google" and type in "arranging cut flowers" it will bring up numerous websites on the subject.
Thanks, Nancy, for your time and effort in publishing the newsletter. I always look forward to it. I, too, have cats, and know exactly how much joy your Siggy and Annie bring.
Donna
Jello 123 for Donna
3/4 cup boiling water
1 (4-serving size) package Jello, any flavor
1/2 cup cold water
ice cubes
1/2 cup whipped topping
Pour boiling water into blender. Add Jello. Cover and blend at low speed until gelatin is completely dissolved, about 30 seconds. Combine cold water and ice cubes to make 1 1/4 cups. Add to gelatin and blend until ice is partially melted. Then add whipped topping; blend at high speed for 30 seconds. Pour into dessert glasses. Chill about 30 minutes. Dessert layers as it chills.
Lhadley
After I sent the last recipe, I came across this one that sounds better. This recipe takes a little practice, but it turns out just as you remember it.
Jello-O 123
1 (6 oz) package Jell-O
1/2 C non-dairy powdered coffee creamer
2 T powdered egg whites
2 C hot water
1 1/2 C cold water
1/2 C ice
1. Mix Jello and hot water in a blender about 1 minute on high.
2. Add creamer and blend for 30 seconds.
3. Add cold water and ice and blend until ice has dissolved.
4. Add powdered egg whites and blend for about one minute.
5. Pour into glasses slowly.
6. Refigerate and it will separate just like you remember it.
Lhadley
Have you the recipe for a jell-o mold that looks like stain glass? Our gal brought it but speaks little english so we are not getting the recipe correctly. Would love it if you have it, as I am a Tupperware Distributor with 350 consultants that would use it.
Love your site and will certainly send it to my team.
Sandy Wilson, Tupperware Distributor
Pot of Gold Sales
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This is a recipe for sweet dill pickles that my daughter-in-law gave to me. They are really delicous and not hard to make.
Sweet Dill Pickles
25 cukes 4 to 6 inches long
3 cups of water
6 cups white vinegar
6 cups of sugar
3 tablespoonso f pickling salt
Garlic buds and dill
Soak whole cukes in ice water 3 to 4 hours-drain well. Slice or cut in strips, Pack in sterlized jars, along with garlic bud
(cut to release flavor) Add a head of dill. Combine water,vinegar,sugar and sugar. Bring to a boil, our over pickles, seal.
Process in boiling water bath for at least 10 minutes. Store at 70 to 75 degrees until pickles look transparent, about 3 weeks. These look
shriveled at first but plump up later. I make these every year and everyone really likes them.
B.J. Miller
Mesa, Arizona
Dear Nancy ... thanks so much. You came through again. I finally received your newsletter today. It is so good to get it back again ... I really missed all of the wonderful people that are incorporated and woven together by your special kind of know-how. Once again ... thanks!!
Lois Kastl
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I am looking for a recipe for old fashion ham pot pie with the dough squares, for in the crockpot, can you help me any help would be appreciated
my email is sab_rj@...
I found this recipe for "sweet dill pickels" that were requested by ssomar13@... at this web site:
http://members.aol.com/themenuworks/page1.html#SWEET%20DILL
Linda
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