Frozen Key Lime Pie

The other night I made this really yummy Frozen Key Lime Pie from Ina Garten. The crust ended up a little thick because I used a smaller pan. The filling and cream were soooo good. The crust was good too, just a little bit hard to cut through. Make it today! You won't be sorry.

Ingredients

For the crust:

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• 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (10 crackers)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted

For the filling:

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• 6 extra-large egg yolks, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 2 tablespoons grated lime zest
• 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (4 to 5 limes)

For the decoration:

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• 1 cup (1/2 pint) cold heavy cream
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Thin lime wedges

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

For the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a bowl. Press into a 9-inch pie pan, making sure the sides and the bottom are an even thickness. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely.

For the filling, beat the egg yolks and sugar on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment for 5 minutes, until thick. With the mixer on medium speed, add the condensed milk, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour into the baked pie shell and freeze.

For the decoration, beat the heavy cream on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment until soft peaks form. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat until firm. Spoon or pipe decoratively onto the pie and decorate with lime. Freeze for several hours or overnight.

Super Bowl Food!

So, Super Bowl Sunday! One of those times every year that you have an excuse to make lots of yummy food. Here's what we are making Sunday!

Neiman Ranch Burgers from Ina Garten made into sliders with Hawaiian rolls
Wings from The Pioneer Woman
Appetizer Meatballs from my sister Emily
Pan Fried Onion Dip from Ina Garten
Chile con Queso, Revved up from The Pioneer Woman
Trader Joe's Spinach Artichoke Dip
Restaurant Style Salsa from The Pioneer Woman
Life by Chocolate Cupcakes from The Pioneer Woman
Snickerdoodle Blondies from Your Homebased Mom

Wish us luck!

More Yummy Hawaii Food!

This was at Jackie Rey's Ohana Grill. This one was the Korean Style Short Ribs with Tempura Vegetables. It was super good.
Elbert had the Lemon Herb Chicken with brown rice and vegetables. He loved it.

Huli Huli Chicken

We are in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii this week and next. Last night was our 4th anniversary. The tables were situated perfectly to see the sunset. We ate at 5:30, so we were front and center for the sunset, which was amazing. We ate at Don the Beachcomber Restaurant located in the Royal Kona Resort, which we happen to be staying at.
I ordered the Island Huli Huli Chicken(above)-Tender half chicken marinated with lemons, limes, oranges, shoyu, and anchiote seasoning then rotisserie roasted to perfection, comes with guava glaze and white truffle honey and coconut rice. Seriously, this was the best chicken ever. I usually don't like chicken with bones or skin, but I actually ate the skin and was happy to cut around the bones to get this chicken. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!
Elbert ordered the Pi Yi'd Baby Backs-Pork ribs coated with our own house made rub, flame broiled and baked with Don's own honey-rum-mango-pineapple BBQ glaze. It came with pineapple coleslaw. The coleslaw was awesome. Elbert said that the ribs weren't as good as my Dad's, but that is pretty hard to do!

Peach and Raspberry Crisp

This is my very first recipe to post. Yeah. I chose an Ina Garten recipe because I love her recipes. This recipe is in the original Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. Let me say that if you don't own this cookbook, go to amazon.com right now and order it. It's pricey, but worth it, so worth it. I have made so many of her recipes and swear by them. The link below is from the Food Network website.
Elbert's b-day was last week, so on Sunday we had a big family dinner at my Parent's house. My dad made ribs and I made baked beans and Barefoot Contessa french potato salad. For dessert, I decided to make a peach crisp. I made the Barefoot Contessa recipe for Peach and Raspberry Crisp, but without the raspberries. It was so yummy. The peaches are a little bit orangy from the zest. The topping is great because of the oatmeal. This is another Barefoot Contessa recipe that I will make over and over. You should all try it before the peaches go out of season. The link to the recipe is below. Thanks for reading.

Barefoot Contessa's Peach and Raspberry Crisp

Julie and Julia

So, I'm sure that I'm the eight thousandth person to start a food blog after seeing Julie and Julia. As soon as the movie was over, Elbert looked over at me and said "you should do a food blog...You could totally do that". I appreciated his confidence in me, but at first I thought "why would someone want to read about my cooking? It's not very exciting". The more that I thought about it and the more Elbert encouraged me, I thought I could do it and it might even be fun. I have had a family blog for about a year and it has been fun, but it's more about my daughter than about me. SO...after being inspired by this movie and encouraged by my husband, I will try to have my own food blog.
That said...I love to cook! I have always enjoyed it. I wouldn't say that I am an excellent cook, but I don't get many complaints. I love watching The Food Network. I own all of Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa cookbooks and I love all of them. I bought the first one right after it came out. Ina Garten used to have a column in Martha Stewart Living before she did her first cookbook. I read that too. I own her DVD series and DVR her show on the food network. I am a little bit obsessed. But her food is so good.
So, I will do my best to share my love of food and cooking with anyone who wants to read it. Enjoy!