BethNH's Profile

From: , NH USA

Joined: December 16th, 2010

About me: I've been cooking and baking since I was a child and collecting cookbooks almost that long. Years ago, I lost my entire collection in a flood and I've been slowly building it back up. I cook for my husband and three sons who are not very adventurous eaters. We're on the go a lot with sports and school schedules. I love to bake and my boys and their friends appreciate all manner of baked goods.

Favorite cookbook: King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

Ginger Pork Meatballs with Cilantro and Fish Sauce from Dinner: Changing the Game

These meatballs and the dipping sauce were to die for delicious. Although there was a lot of chopping the recipe was easy to follow. Everyone loved it and we will definitely make this again. read more >

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Icebox Pies

By Lauren Chattman
Harvard Common Press - 2002

The recipe says this is chocolate pudding poured in a pie shell and topped with whipped cream. The flavor of the chocolate pudding is excellent but it sets up quite firm.

The boys complained of the texture and said it felt like Jello. I agree that it was too firm but the taste made up for it.

6 Tablespoons of cornstarch may just be too much and it would be worth trying again with half as much cornstarch.

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My middle son has been wanting to make a pie from this book and chose this as our first recipe.

The pie uses a graham cracker and coconut crust (this recipe is also found in the book) which must be baked first and cooled. The filling is a combination of unsweetened coconut milk, half-and-half, and bittersweet chocolate. The thickener is corn starch.

The pie thickened very quickly and set up nicely. I did not add coconut extract because I could only find imitation and was worried it would taste like suntan lotion. This meant the filling did not really have any coconut taste. The toasted coconut added on top made for a nice textural contrast but didn't do much for the coconut flavor.

I would make this pie again but next time I'd be sure to have some coconut extract. We look forward to making many more pies from this book.

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This is a basic graham cracker crust with the addition of sweetened flaked coconut. The crust had a nice ratio of ingredients and was moist enough to cover a 9 inch pie plate easily. I did not have coconut extract so the crust did not have a pronounced coconut flavor. It worked well for both the coconut lovers and non-lovers in our family because the coconut was not noticeable (and I didn't mention it).

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What a brilliant idea! A crust for an ice cream cake made out of pulverized ice cream cones. The sugar cones came out of the food processor looking just like graham cracker crumbs and when mixed with butter made a very nice crust.

Yum!

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