Showing posts with label cream cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cream cheese. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Cream Cheese Pie

My sister Gwen Butler gave me this recipe in the early 1970's, it is one of my favorites, I haven't made it for years. We just made it 2017 Christmas and loved it!

8 0z cream cheese softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
mix together until smooth
gradually add:
2 cups whipping cream and beat until stiff
Pour into a 9x13 pan with a graham cracker crust.
Chill then top with 1 can cherry pie filling or blueberry pie filling

GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST:
2 Packages of graham cracker crushed into crumbs
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter melted
1/2 cup sugar
Mix together and pat into 9x13 pan

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Cream Cheese "Chicken" Soup

Adapted from Melanie's

*Warning*

This recipe will make you weep. Seriously.

I am not sure what it is about this recipe that makes is soooo yummy. Maybe it's the comfort food aspect of it. I don't know. But this is one of the best tasting soups I have ever encountered. We eat this at least 3 times a week. Yup. Seriously.

This recipe calls for chicken, yet I don't add it any more. After my dad had major surgery, his diet was temporarily limited to softer foods, which included chicken. I search one of my favorite recipe blogs, at My Kitchen Cafe, for all things chicken and found this gem. I quadrupled the cooking time on the veggies to make them softer for my dad. In doing this, I inadvertently made the potato the star of the show. The potatoes started to fall apart, making this taste like a yummy comfort food potato soup from childhood's past. Yum. So, just remember that this recipe does call for chicken. You can invite it...or not.

We are having this again tonight. I will take a picture and pass it along!

4 chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
chicken broth, from a can, or from the cooking chicken (I have used a combo of both)
1 medium onion
1 TBSP butter
large handful baby carrots, sliced small
4-5 potatoes, diced
4 TBSP flour
1 cup milk
1 8 0z pkg cream cheese, softened to room temperature
salt and pepper

In your soup pot, saute the onion in the butter, until the onions become translucent (about 5 minutes). Put diced veggies in pot and just cover with chicken broth. Let this simmer. Melanie has them simmer for 10 minutes, until soft. I let them simmer for about 40 minutes, until mushy. However, with the longer simmer time, I do have to add a little more broth along the way, due to evaporation.

When veggies are cooked to desired softness, mix the flour and the milk in a separate bowl, then add to the soup, for thickening. At this point, you add the chicken, and the cream cheese, broken into small bits. Let melt and heat through. Add salt and pepper to taste, and VIOLA! Easy, fast, and sooooooo delicious! Happy Eating! Thanks, Melanie!