My Adventure in Nancy's Kitchen

Today I got out my Nancy Drew Cookbook and had a cooking adventure!

First I made Twisted Candles Peach Crisp.

The recipe is from one of my favorite novels, the Sign of the Twisted Candles! :)

I drained most of the peach juice in the sink but dumped the peaches on a wire cooling rack and let the rest of the juice soak through. I dried of the peaches mostly by patting them with paper towels.

I mixed together the ingredients for the crisp part, and decided to leave some butter chunks in it. Butter chunks are soooo yummy.... :):) (like this post if you agree!!)

The recipe didn't take many ingredients, and it was super easy to make. The hardest part was letting it bake for 50 minutes!

I added the peach juice that dripped into a pan beneath the wire rack to make it more doughy.

I covered the peaches with the yummers!

Before baking

After baking

Next I made Souffle Gruen. It's actually more like a queiche.

The ingredients! This doesn't look nearly as appetizing as the crisp but if you're not in the sweet mood the finished result is what you care about!

Before baking

After baking

I served the crisp with peach ice cream. Surprisingly, peach ice cream tasted nothing like the canned peaches!

The quieche was good too. Not as good as I thought it would be, but hey, I guess back then they put eggs in milk for a treat!! (ew!)

So that was my adventure in Nancy's kitchen. I learned 2 things.

1. I love Twisted Candles Peach Crisp.

2. Souffle Gruen doesn't taste as good as the crisp.

:)

I love cooking. A lot of times I'm not in the mood, but when I am, I'm in the kitchen doing it! Haha.

What about you? Do you like cooking? Do you like Nancy's Cookbook?

Love yah!

P.S. If you have the cookbook and are making the peach crisp, I forgot to mention that I changed the recipe some. It doesn't say to add peach juice to the crisp topping but I did. :) That made the brown sugar caramelize!! Yummerz!

This post is on Raising Homemakers weekly link up. I'm No# 160!

Update

Hey everybody, I might be a little late posting my Feminine Fashion Day 3 today because I am out of town for a little while. So I am so sorry if I have to upload it tomorrow. Right now I am at a library and I have been here for about half an hour. Usually it takes me a while to soak into all the books. :) I have found one book called Recipes for Our Daughters. It's a cookbook and it has some reeeeeally yummy looking ones! Here's one:
Broccoli-Rice Casserole
1 cup rice
One 10-ounce can cream of chicken soup
One 8-ounce jar of Cheez Whiz (love this stuff but it is so unhealthy!)
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) margarine
One 10-ounce package frozen chopped broccoli or spinach, thawed and well-drained
Crushed Ritz Crackers, for topping (optional)

1. preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Grease a large casserole dish.
3. In a heavy saucepan, bring 2 cups of water to a boil. Add the rice, stir, cover the pan, and reduce the heat to very low.
4. While the rice is cooking, which should take about 20 minutes, combine the soup, Cheez Whiz, and margarine in a large saucepan and cook over low to medium heat until blended.
5. When the rice is cooked, add it- along with the broccoli -to the soup mixture. Stir to combine.
6. Pour the mixture into the prepared casserole dish and top with the crushed Ritz crackers, if desired.
7. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

Doesn't that sound delicious?!? We make a Broccoli casserole for holidays and this sounds like it, except the one we make doesn't have rice. I want to make this recipe for dinner tonight!!

P.S. I have lately become a big fan of the josties- on http://www.youtube.com/ look up Jostie Flicks and you will find it- I love it!