Creamy Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pie

Well hello again to all you foodies out there in web land this is MadJon again and today we are going to be talking about some nice and creamy Peanut Butter Pie with Chocolate Crust.  Last week I went to lunch with my foodies Club and we ate at one of the little bristles in Augusta along the river.  The food was great and the desserts were Hugh!  However I think the Peanut Butter Pies they served could use a creamier filling.  So I went home to my test kitchen and came up with this pie recipe which everyone loved on the set of the "Cooking With MadJon and Friends" show so am going to share it with Y'all.    If you go to this web-site you will learn the history of how the Peanut Butter Pie came to be.  http://www.danspeanutbutterpies.com/History.aspx neat story.  Any who I would have thought the recipe when have been made up at about the time Peanut Butter cookies came into our world.  Any who let's give this a try shall we.

Peanut Butter Pie With Chocolate Crust

1/2 package of Keebler Striped Chocolate Cookies, crushed
3 TBSP. Butter melted
3 TBSP. Sugar, Brown or White

Crush your cookies and to that you add the melted butter and sugar.  Place in a 9" pie pan and bake crust in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.  Cool when cooked.

Peanut Butter Pie

1 8 ozs. Cream Cheese Package, softened
1 cup Confectionary Sugar
3/4 cup Peanut Butter, smooth
1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp Caramel Sauce, ready made
Reese's Minis Peanut Butter Cups
1 Cup Chopped Salted Peanut

In a bowl beat the heavy whipped cream till stiff, then to that you beat in the softened cream cheese.  When it is well blended then you add the sugar and beat till it is smooth.  Then to that you add the peanut butter, vanilla and caramel.  Blend well.  You can use a Ice Cream Sauce for the caramel if you wish.  Now you pour the mix into your crust and cool for about 4 hours.  Then top pie with your Reese's minis and chopped nuts.  Pour alittle of the caramel sauce on top and I say Bona Y'all.

Let's give this recipe a try if you like Peanut Buttter.  Let me know how you like it and also send me some recipes please at madjon51@aol.com.  Visit me on FB and like my fan page and tell your friends about it, https://www.facebook.com/#!/CookingwithMadjon.  Happy trails to you and your until we meet again.  Bona Y'all. MadJon.

Best Depression Comfort Food Banana Nut Bread

Well hi to all you foodie friends out there in web land, its MadJon again writing to you about one of the best comfort foods that I remember my grand mother baking and coming in the door the best smelling aroma there is to smell.  It also made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.  I couldn't wait to cut a piece and slab on the butter, yum, yum!  Any who I just made some today for a catering job coming up and am going to cut the loafs in slices and add a cream cheese filling with it.  Can't wait till they taste it.  I also added some cinnamon to the batter.  What's nice about Banana Bread is that its easy to make and you can add raisins, nuts or even some orange to the mix.  I've even made a Chocolate Banana Bread.  It came to be in cookbooks around the  1930's and it came about with the use of baking soda and baking powder.  The Banana itself is from a wild banana seed and its from like the Pacific and south east Asia.  Any who I say thanks so much for the banana its one of my favorite fruits to eat and isn't as expensive as most fruits.  Any who the best breads are made with really ripe bananas and the one's I used today were black in color.  So, are we ready for the recipe?

Banana Nut Bread W/ Cinnamon

1 stick and 1/2 stick Butter
1 1/2 cups Sugar
3 medium ripe Bananas, mashed
2 Eggs, beaten
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 cups sifted Flour
1 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Salt
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 cup chopped Pecans

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Grease two loaf pans with butter or spray.  Sift the flour with the salt and soda, set aside.  Melt the butter and mix it with the sugar.  Then mash your ripe bananas and mix it with the butter and sugar.  Then to that you start adding the dry ingredients to the mix and add your buttermilk till all your flour and buttermilk have been blended with the banana mix.  Then beat your eggs and add them to the mix and blend.  Add the cinnamon and vanilla and blend well.  Then last add the chopped pecans and you guessed it, blend well.  Pour into the loaf pans and bake in a preheated oven for about  1 1/4 hours or until done to touch or tooth pick comes out dry when inserted into the middle of the bread.

You will love this recipe and try it with some fresh coffee, yum, yum.  Please write me and tell me what you think of this recipe at madjon51@aol.com.  I love hearing from you.  Also go like my fan page on facebook Cooking With Madjon nd Friends.  Also come follow my blog. Come watch the TV show at http://www.aikenstandard.com/, ASTV 95.  Happy trails to you and yours until we meet again.  Eileen Hutson, MadJon

Katy Cooking Dessert For Kids Mixed Fruit Parfait De-Lite

Well Hello to all you foodie friends out there in Web Land its nice to visit with you all again.  Its MadJon getting back to Aiken from Atlanta, I went to cook with the Sandy Springs Les Marmitons group and loved every minute of it.  We cooked Roasted Asparagus Salad, Squash Soup, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Garlic Potato's, and Raspberry German Chocolate Parfaits which we will talk about in another blog because we are going to talk about the last cooking show we did last Monday.  I had a wonderful guest and her name is Katy and she stands all of about 4" tall and is 6 years old.  She was so much fun on the show.  She talked and answered my questions just like a pro.  She even knows how to do some cooking because she and her mom get in the kitchen and cook together.  Its wonderful to cook with kids because they are so eager to learn and follow directions very well.  She stood on a cooler and worked right along side me.  So this dessert was made up with her in mind.  We hope you enjoy it and try the recipe with your kids, I heard it was Delicious.

Mixed Fruit Parfait De-Lite

2 Large Instant Vanilla Puddings
1 pint fresh Strawberry's
2 Bananas
1 fresh Pineapple Heart
4 Cups Whole Milk
1 Small Carton Heavy Whipped Cream
3/4 Cup Confectionery Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla

Make pudding according to package directions wit the whole milk.  Dice up the strawberry's, bananas, and pineapples, set aside.  Beat the cream with the sugar and vanilla still it is stiff and then mix the fruit with the cream and set aside.  Then in a parfait bowl or some wine glasses place some pudding, cream mixture in the bottom and repeat the process till you fill the glass or container.  Top with some more whipped cream.  Now you are ready to serve.

Well I hope you give this recipe a try with your kids and did yo know that the Strawberry has 200 seeds on the outside of it and also its the only fruit that carries its seed on the outside.  Please come like my fan page on face book at https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/CookingwithMadjon  and come like my TV show at http://www.aikenstandard.com/ ASTV 95, Cooking With MadJona nd Friends.  Email me at madjon51@aol.com with any questions about your food needs.  If youa re in the CSRA area call me about catering or cooking lessons.  Happy Trails to you and your until we meet again, Eileen F. Hutson, MadJon.

Happy Easter Red Eyed Gravy and Ham Mafia and Daddy

Well hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land I hope all is well this Easter season.  I hope you are going to be cooking some ham and Red Eyed Gravy.  Ham is what my mom always made on Easter Sunday with pineapple, cherries, brown sugar and a few cloves, but not to many just enough to give it a lite flavor for the ham.  Our dad always made Ham and Red Eyed Gravy in the mornings with the slices of left over Ham with girts. He was a mountain man from Spring City Tennessee and his dad was Irish and his mother was from Oklahoma and full Cherokee Indian.  John, his dad saw her on a river boat and traded her for some goods to her dad. So they had 16 children and they lived on a mountain in Tennessee and when my grandmother passed the kids didn't know what to do with the land, they couldn't agree is what I mean so they donated it to the state of Tennessee and there is a Newby National Park named after us and that is the story that we were told anyway.  Well when my Daddy was in the army during WW11 he learned to design and make furniture so when the war was over he and a few of his brothers opened up a furniture manufacturing plant in Florida, Miami if I remember right and we lived in the Cables, am not sure if am naming that right, long time ago.  Any who it was in the 1950's.  However they had to many Chefs and not enough Indians so our Dad left them and opened place around the country.  One of them was in Compton California and it was in the early 60's because I was about 12 years old then.  Any who you know my Daddy always looked Italian with his cold black hair and dark brown eyes.  He stood 6' 3" tall and was about 260 pounds but all muscle when he was at that age.  Well he had six kids and a wife, and a couple more that we didn't find out about until after we were grown.  Well one day three men in suits came calling to my Daddy and told him that they expected some money from him for certain thing that they would do for him, like protection money.  Well they told him that they knew where he lived, how many kids he had and our names and where we all went to school. Well that didn't set well with my dad and he stood up to those men and told them that if any harm came to anyone of his children or his wife then they had better get ready to die because he would hunt down each and everyone of them himself.  He also told them that he would close the whole plant down before he paid them one dime.  So needless to say he closed the plant down and moved use in the middle of the night to Houston, Texas and opened a small Upholstery Shop. Any who we ate a lot of Red Eyed Gravy at our house.  I hope you enjoy the story and give this recipe a try with some ham left overs.

Red Eyed Gravy

Ham Sliced Pieces, like 5 or 6 will do
2 Cups Strong Coffee
Black Pepper to taste
1 tsp. Onion Powder

Cook the ham slices in a sauce pan till browned then remove from pan.  To the drippings you heat and add the coffee, black pepper, and onion powder.  Cook sauce for about 5 to 10 minutes until it reduces and you have all the pieces off the bottom of the pan.  Serve over grits or even mashed potato's.  Bona Y'all.

I hope you come like my fan page on facebook, "Cooking With MadJon and Friends".  Go watch and get recipes from the TV shows at http://www.aikenstandard.com/ ASTV 95.  Send me some recipes at madjon51@aol.com and tell me some stories about them, all foods have a great story.  Happy Easter and happy trails to you until we meet again.  Come follow my blog please.