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BERRY MALLOW YAM BAKE

1/2 cp flour
1/2 cp packed lt brown sugar
1/2 cp quick oats
1 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cp butter, soft to room temp
2 - 16oz canned yams, drained
2 cups cranberries
1 1/2 cps mini marshmallows

preheat oven to 350. mix, flour, sugar, brn sugar, oats and cinnamon. cut in butter until crumbly. toss 1 cup flour mixture with yams and cranberries. (sprinkle more mix on top if desired).

bake at 350 for 35 minutes. sprinkle with marshmallows and bake or broil until light brown.

YUMMY!!!!!!!! kids love it, i do too!

this one is from a williams-sonoma catalog and is the best i ever made/had. to die for. i used biscotti ground in a food processor for the crust, butground grahams or almond cookies should work too. very creamy & smooth (like me).

CRANBERRY GRAND MARNIER CHEESCAKE

1 cp dried cranberries
2 cps biscotti pie crust mix
1/2 cp unsalted butter, melted & cooled
1 cp sugar
2 lbs cream cheese, at room temp
1/2 cp orange juice
1 Tbs grated orange zest
2 Tbs orange-flavor liqueur, such as grand marnier
5 eggs

in small saucepan, cover cranberries with water and simmer until soft and plump, about 4 minutes, drain & then let cool. in a bowl, mix together biscotti mix and melted butter. press mixture over bottom and up 2" of side of 10" sprinform pan. bake in 350 oven until golden, about 12 minutes. put on wire rack to cool. leave oven at 350.
in a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar on medium speed until smooth. beat in orange juice, orange zest and liqueur. add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. with rubber spatula, fold in cranberries. spoon mixture into cooled crust.
bake until cheesecake is set when pan is gently shaken, about 1 hour. cool completely on wire rack. refridgerate overnite.
to serve, remove sides of pan, transfer to plate and slice into wedges.


about 10,000 calories a slice and well worth it.

enjoy everybody. love, jane

Jane, thanks so much for sharing. Looks yummy! Everyone, have a great day putting on those pounds tomorrow! Carole

Jane - You Rule!
That Cheesecake recipe makes you a Kitchen Goddess...
I think I'll try that one for Christmas. Thanks for taking the time to post those for us.

Thanks Jane. Emailed them out to my special someones this morning. The Cheesecake sounds almost better than sex....... will let you know when I make it. LOL
Have a VERY happy turkey day!!!!
Debbie

Thanks Jane, they sound absolutely lip smacking yummy! I'll let you know the verdict of the jury later. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving.

Jane you are one smart cookie, hiding cranberries in a cheesecake. That way everyone will actual eat cranberries, even the kids.

i wasnt going to make either one of those this year, but after reading and typing them, went to market and making them both!! please, if you do make them, let me know how they turn out. chloe, the kids WILL eat that marshmallow thing. it is very easy and it is sooooo sweet. just like a blueberry crisp. (only without blueberries, duh).

overcooked the cheesecake this time, and used a processor instead of beaters (wasnt as fluffy), fresh crans instead of dried. it cracked a little. well, i'll let ya know tomorrow how it tasted. smells gooooood!

Jane, thank you so much for the recipes. The Yams were so good my sister even liked them...and she doesn't like yams OR cranberries!
I'll be trying the cheesecake at Christmas. Now here's a super easy recipe for holidays. It's really good for parties since it feeds alot of people and it travels well:

Pumpkin Pie Cake
1 large can evaporated milk (I used 12 oz can)
3 eggs
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon ginger
1 can pumpkin (26-29 oz)
1 box spice cake mix
2 sticks butter or margarine, melted
chopped nuts
whipped topping
Mix first ten ingredients. Pour into ungreased 9 x 13 baking pan. Sprinkle cake mix evenly over top. Sprinkle nuts over cake mix. Drizzle melted butter over the nuts and cake mix. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour. Cool in fridge; cut and top with whipped topping.

I don't have to fuss with making pie crusts anymore. This is so much better than pie.

MMM. those do look good. Cranberry Gran Marnier ccake... oh man...
Better than sex? I'll let you know after I have sex!

LOL...depends....sex is like recipes....LOL..some good and some not so good.
Personally I'd like to find the equivalent to the cheesecake! What a night that would be....LOL
Wooohoooo

Wishful thinking I'm sure....*sigh*

I always thought sex was kinda like pizza... When it's good, it's great.
When it's bad, it's still pretty good ;-)

LOL.....it's very frustrating when you don't get a really good pizza.

hmmmm....... pizza, cheesecake, and sex.......
or is it sex, cheesecake and pizza .....?

I'm with you Mama Liz...

Sex is kinda like lasagna......
You know how the flavor makes it's way through and it's often better the next day?(morning) Damn.....even the left overs are good!!!!

The cheesecake sounds "to die for". I'm bringing the desert to Christmas dinner!

The cheescake was absolutely fabulous. Can't say it was better than sex, but definately mouth watering. But hey, if you integrated the two...........Now that would be a great recipe!!! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

i'm with sunkissed, eating cheesecake (or pizza or lasagna) while having sex has to be the ultimate decadence! yeah, my cheesecake came out good too, but not as fluffy as if i had used a mixer instead of the processor. i'll be making the yams for xmas, FRANK STOLE MY YAMS AND MARSHMALLOWS!! he claims he "didnt know" they were for me. oh well !

Jane,
You have that problem too? LOL Mark is always using things in the fridge ear marked for something special...... Then wonders why he doesn't get anything new, exotic or special...... Go figure.
P.S. I live in Po-dunk USA, and haven't a clue where you would get biscotti pie crust mix.....Got any extra???? The people here don't even know what artichokes or capers are.......A really nice meal out here is catfish.....Ahhhhh country living......
Debbie

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Jane, thanks for the recipes. Bob couldn't believe that I did the whole spread for just the two of us. Everything was delicious! Extra miles on the treadmill this week! Carole

So Debbie, what's wrong with catfish? I'll bet you can get sweet-tea too. I'm jealous. People here consider Walleye good eating and wouldn't know a hush puppy if it bit them on the...
And we may have plenty of gourmet shops, but too many folks still put catsup on their prime rib.

here we call that "ketchup", and it is for cheesesteaks. catfish is served here only in restaraunts.

deb - i bought some stella d'oro almond toast and biscotti and ground it up with some sugar. it worked fine. (you gotta have stella d'oro cookies in your market.) our market sells fresh biscotti out of the bakery too, plus other more expensive kinds on the shelf. hell, you cant sneeze up here without falling over a biscotti, or a cappucino for that matter. what are you guys, heathens? sheesh.

Mama Liz, LOVE catfish. Eat it often. It's just on the menu in the nicest place in town........ Usually the nicer places serve swordfish, halibut or Mahi Mahi..... Not here...... I can relate to the catsup on the prime rib. Makes my skin crawl... LOL

Jane, Yes, we heathens down here are really pathetic....... Can't get a cappucino anywhere in town.... Doesn't that SUCK???? The deli doesn't even have corned beef. REALLY sad. Can only get rye bread on a "good" day at the grocery, and boy howdy you had better check the date!!!!! I stumbled onto some almond flavored biscotti in a bag in the "deli"..... So I can grind them up and use them????? will try it.... Since there is no such thing as biscotti pie mix. Funny, I order tea after dinner, and get cold. I like hot tea thank you very much!!!!When I say I want it with milk, they shake their heads. They still put lemon in it. Use your imagination!!!!! GROSS!!! Instant cottage cheese....... Oh well.... I try.
Debbie

wow, even the gas stations up here have cappucino. the 7-11's have 3 flavors. i like regular coffee. just coffee. i can even get starbucks beans in my market. oh, and i have 3 HUGE markets very close by. frank drinks hot tea with milk too. can you get good tea bags there?? deb, come visit me here in civilization sometime. bring the brood.

Deb, we can get these things in South Texas at Sam's Club Boscotti in a tall glass decanter, and Starbucks Coffee.
Our convenient store Coastal Mart has cappucino, and it is really good.
Have Hubby pick up some, on his next trip down here to look after our trees. LOL

LOL at Mom. That's a great idea. I just want to make sure that I'm with him!!! My new vacation time starts over Jan. 1, so I should be able to take a day off and come down soon....... Then I can indulge in my own cappucino and get the right biscotti. If I sent Mark for that, he'd come home with buttermilk bisquit mix!!!!!!! When we drive into Houston we always stop for a french vanilla or an english toffee cappucino. The big book stores in Houston have a gourmet coffee shop attached. We hang out in there for hours.....

LOL~i would love to see you too meet! fly on the wall! yak, yak, yak pumped full of 10 cups of cappuccino! we have a starbucks in our town, too, and 3 megabookstores, and coffee houses are getting really popular. but, for like $7 a bag, i just grind those good beans and sit & look out my back window. bliss! funny, i once read a joke: people will happily pay $3.50 for 8 oz of cappucino, but complain of $1.50 a gal for gas! (it is that here)

xmas is just around the corner....i am making the mallow bake this year. just thought i'd pop these back up. have a good one everyone!