Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
no bake berry cheese squares
"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
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__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
"Cooking is a creation."
__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
No-Bake Berry Cheese Squares
Ingredients:
2 cups finely crushed pretzels
1/2 cup white sugar, divided
2/3 cup butter, melted
12 ounces of cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons whole milk
1 cup Cool Whip, thawed
2 cups boilin' water
1 large package [8 servin' size] strawberry Jell-o
1 and 1/2 cups cold water
4 cups of fresh strawberries, sliced
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Combine the crushed pretzels with 1/4 cup of white sugar
and 2/3 cup melted butter.
3) Firmly press the pretzel mixture into the bottom of
a 9 by 13 inch bakin' pan.
4) Bake for ten minutes, then cool completely.
5) Beat together the cream cheese, 1/4 cup white sugar,
and the 2 tablespoons milk 'til thoroughly blended.
6) Gently stir in the thawed Cool Whip.
7) Spread the cream cheese mixture over the cooled crust
and refrigerate.
8) In a large bowl, add the 2 cups boilin' water to the Jell-o
and stir 'til the Jell-o is completely dissolved.
9) Stir in 1 and 1/2 cups cold water.
10) Refrigerate the Jell-o for an hour an a half --- or 'til it's thickened to the point that a spoon drawn through it will leave a clear impression.
11) Stir the sliced strawberries into the Jell-o.
12) Spoon the Jell-o mixture over the cream cheese layer.
13) Refrigerate for four hours.
14) Cut into squares prior to servin'.
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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