Comfort Foods Sorghum Molasses Banana Cake Moist Yum Yum

Hello to all you foodies out there in web land again I hope all is well and that you are ready for an exciting weekend.  My hubby and I will be in Atlanta and Running all over Georgia this weekend and ending back up in Atlanta and viewing some rare art with my sister and her hubby.  I think the painting is called Girl With The Pearls?  Not sure and I think the artist was from Dutch decent.  Any who the painting is like from the 1800's? Am excited about seeing that one!  So am looking to have a fun filled weekend.  We played Bridge tonight with the boys and boy I tell ya we broke even in the game, its the only time am on even ground with my hubby and so I give it my all!  I just love playing Bridge and my grands say what's that?  Its a very exciting game to me to out bid them and made our bids and different people play and bid differently, Black wood is what they like to play.  I like it too because I try out my new recipes on them when its our turn and now am going to go forward with writing another cook-book and it will be another e-cookbook so I will keep you posted.  We ate Chicken with Mushrooms cooked in a Red Wine Sauce, fresh steamed Squash from our Garden and this Molasses Banana Cake I made up today before we left and I wanted to make it with molasses because its a more natural way of cooking years ago.  You can use Sorghum in desserts, drinks and even salad dressings so I'll be doing some experimenting with the molasses for a while.  I think Sorghum came from Africa and its some kind of grass and my hubby loves it on pancakes and such,  even on Hot Biscuits, something very Southern.  My dad ate it on hot Corn Bread at home. My mom liked to make her Northern Baked Beans with it.  So you see its been around for a lot of years and has had many uses and its suppose to be a good sweetener for you to use.  Our friends liked the cake very much, it was sweet but not to sweet and earthy tasting.  When I ate it I wanted a nice hot cup of coffee with it so when you make it have plenty of coffee on hand.

Molasses Banana Cake

1 Stick Butter. softened
1/4 cup Brown Sugar, packed
3/4 cup Molasses
2 Eggs, beaten
3 to 4 ripe Banana's smashed
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp Pumpkin Spice
3/4 cup Buttermilk
2 1/4 cups all-purpose Flour
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
Confectionery Sugar for dusting top of cake

Cream the butter and then add the sugar and beat.  Next add the eggs, molasses, and bananas and mix.  Mix the salt, flour and soda together and pour about 1/3 of it with the wet ingredients and beat.  Then start adding the buttermilk and beat until all the flour and buttermilk are gone.  Add your vanilla and pumpkin spice to the mix.  Grease your pan and add your cake mix and bake it in a pre-heated oven on 350 degrees and bake for about 1 hour or until test done with tooth pick coming out clean.  You may add about 1 cup chopped nuts to this cake if you wish.  Cool the cake for about 20 minutes before removing it from the pan and when its cooled another 20 minutes dust it with the confectionery sugar. Please enjoy this recipe and come like my cooking fan page on facebook and follow this blog why don't ya, please.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.

 

 

Father's Day, Coconut Cream Pie & its June 19th What Already!

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land and I hope posting is going well.  As for me I can't believe that this is the 19th of June 2013 already!  Time just flies when you get older.  You turn around and it seems like a month is a day in my life.  I've been busy with about 4 catering jobs and 3 shoots so far this month.  Making lots of changes to recipes and trying to decide if am going to make another e-cookbook.  I started with a radio show on www.martinchristainradio.com with some other special cooker type chefs out there in radio land now.  Wish us luck on that its never been done before but am always ready to lead the way into the unknown of entertainment.  Radio is a lot harder then you think it would be because you have to just keep on talking even if you think it doesn't make any sense, my shows are unscripted so you just keep on talking.  I like to talk about foods and would I can remember to throw a story or two in there it seems to just flow.  Any who father's day just went on by me but I did manage to throw my hubby a bone or two.  That's why I made a Coconut Cream Pie for him, that's one of his favorites.  My dad loved it as well.  I did did manage to think about my daddy this father's day and I had a dream about him, I rarely do that.  Any who at least he came to me a couple of weeks ago to say Hi how ya doing?  He was a mess while he was on this earth of ours.  He made his presence well know to the human race.  He was bigger then life and he lived it the way he wanted without thinking what anyone thought of him.  He bowed down to no mans or women for that matter.  He was self-made man.  He made great money, a womanisers and a hell raiser all in one package.  If he got in trouble with a women he'd just get us up in the middle of the night and off we'd go to advantageous unknown until we got there.  He'd leave everything we had except for the clothes on our backs and we'd start all over again, what a life and that type of life took us from the East, West, South of North of this great country of ours.  There were six of us kids, five girls and one boy.  We were like traveling bandits, with no where really to call home.  Sometimes we were in a different school every three months.  It was very exciting to live like that going to different places all the time, it was like a vacation year round, I miss that, the traveling, its like you get a chance at a new life and new adventures your whole life.  Anyway I miss him however I don't miss his drinking and hell raising.  Any who daddy, happy Father's Day to you where ever you are and I hope that you are having some fun.  The way we lived at least made us friendly to be around.  Any who I hope you all had a great Father's Day.  Now let's get some pictures up of this pie
making and give you a recipe to try. Come like my fan page at https://www.facebook.com/CookingwithMadjon and watch the TV shows at aikenstandard.tv .  Please try this recipe and write me at madjon51@aol.com if you would like to share any recipes.  Happy cooking to you all and happy trails until we meet again.  Go make some memories of your own.

Coconut Cream Pie

1/4 Corn Starch
1 Cup Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Salt
2-3 Cups Half and Half
3 TBSP Butter, optional
3 Egg Yolks, beaten
3/4 cup flecked Coconut

3 Eggs Whites
1 tsp Vanilla
 pinch of Salt
3 TBSP Sugar

1 9" Pie Crust, cooked and cooled

Mix the sugar, salt, cornstarch together in a pan and then add the milk, vanilla, and egg yolks and blend until smooth.  Heat on simmer until the pudding thickens and then add about 3/4 cup flaked coconut to the mix and place in a cooked pie crust. You may ad the butter if you wish to the mix while its hot totally up to you. Then beat you egg whites till they are stiff.  Then add the vanilla, salt and sugar a little at a time and beat till smooth.  Top it on the pie and bake at 350 until nice and brown.  Serve hot or cold.  If you want a firmer fulling add no more milk but if you want it thinker add a little more milk to the mix.

 

Coconut Cream Pie