Re-intro

For those of you who have been following my blog from the beginning, thanks. Life has taken over and has taken some turns, one being without a proper oven for about a year. Now that I have an oven that works and the holiday season is coming on I'll be posting a bunch more recipes, so stay tuned. Just a note, Handful is no longer with me this makes me sad. However I know she's doing fine in Santa Barbara.

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 :)