About Me

I live in a small poke town within an hour of the California coast where there are more vineyards than people with my husband and three children and various pets. James Dean's tree is within walking distance and the James Brothers were also known to ride these hills. I was born to the son of Lutheran missionaries and the daughter of Catholic hypocrites. I'm a Zionist. I was born and raised in California where liberal ideas become gods, and conservative ideals are evil. Unfortunately, it's illegal to have morals in California. I'm one of the evil ones. I take my frustrations out on my houseplants, all 300+ of them.

Recipes & Procedures


Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies

I have been a little lazy lately, because money has been tight. I found a bag of frozen cranberries in the back of the freezer so I thought I'd make chicken with cranberry BBQ sauce as an experiment, but what to do with the leftover cranberries? This is what I came up with....

Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies

CRUST: One package cake style brownies, follow the directions.

TOPPING:
1 8 oz package cream cheese
1 tsp lemon juice
1 sm package instant vanilla pudding
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 lb frozen cranberries
1/4 cup milk or cream

  1. In the food processor combine frozen cranberries, sugar and lemon juice, puree
  2. add cream cheese, pudding and milk
  3. pure until it is almost sorbet consistency, refrigerate until brownies have cooled
  4. spread cranberry mixture on brownies, then serve with whipped cream or whipped topping.

See wasn't that easy?

My cranberry BBQ sauce was just as easy, I added some pureed cranberries & sugar to a sweet BBQ sauce, a little lemon, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, catchup, a little garlic powder, and anise seed and heated it all up then served it with my George Foreman grilled chicken, yum :)