Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
chiquitas 'n cheese bread
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
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__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
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__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Chiquitas 'N Cheese Bread
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 package [8 ounce sized] Philadelphia cream cheese, softened
2 cups white sugar
2 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon bakin' powder
1/2 teaspoon bakin' soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups mashed bananas
1 cup pecans, chopped
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Grease and flour two 8 by 4 inch loaf pans.
3) Beat together butter and cheese 'til creamy.
4) Gradually beat in sugar 'til mixture is light and fluffy.
5) Add eggs, one at a time, beatin' 'til just blended after each addition.
6) In a separate bowl, combin the flour, bakin' powder,
bakin' soda, and salt.
7)Gradually add dry ingredients to creamed mixture,
beatin' 'til just blended.
8) Stir in bananas, chopped pecans, and vanilla extract.
9) Spoon batter into prepared pans.
10) Bake for about one hour or 'til center tests done and sides pull away from pan. If need be, cover loaves with aluminum foil durin' last fifteen minutes of bakin' to prevent browning.
11) Cool bread in pans on wire racks for ten minutes.
12) Remove from pans and finish coolin' on wire racks before slicin'.
Yield: two 8 by 4 inch loaves --- or 24 muffins.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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