Our church started a supper club as a way for families to get to know each other better. The plan...match up 6 adults and recommend they meet 3 times in 4 months, then switch groups. There are no other rules. You can include kids or get babysitters and enjoy a night with adults. You can take turns meeting in each other's homes, meet at a park, or meet at a restaurant. We were matched with the Gordon's and the Hollidge's, and Patrick and I hosted the first gathering. Oh.my.word....I laughed so hard I thought I would pee. I thought Brad Gordon was quiet....um, no.....life of the party and HILARIOUS!!!
In honor of the evening, I put on my diva cooking apron (after Easter bargain at Target for $5!!!) and cooked up one de-licious dinner (if I do say so myself). I tried some new recipes (I have a pretty good eye for what will be good) and also made some tried and true favorites.
I will post the whole menu, but for now, why not start with dessert!?! I have been asked by several people recently for this recipe (and okay, some of you asked for it MONTHS ago). It is one of my favorite desserts of all time, and for those of you who know how much I love dessert and how many desserts I make, you know that's sayin' something! The stained recipe in my mom's recipe box says,
Lemon Ice Cream Pie. I know, you are looking at the picture below and thinking, that doesn't look much like a pie. Well, here's something else you should know about me. I don't share well...when it comes to food I love that is, so I double the recipe and make it in a 9x13 pan instead of a pie plate. No really, nothing says love like my husband giving up his rights to the last piece (because I most likely ate 3/4 of it anyway), and I am not below hiding it in some distant corner of the chest freezer so his "male refrigerator blindness" can not track it. mmm hmm....it's that good.
Here's the pie version...just double it for a 9x13 pan, and since I use extra large eggs, I only use 3 eggs and 5 egg yolks/whites when I double it. The pictures don't do it justice. The layers of yellow and white really are pretty. If you need a recipe for a graham crust, let me know.
Lemon Ice Cream Pie
1/3 cup butter
2 tsp lemon rind, grated
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 egg yolks (reserve the whites in another bowl)
Almost 2 qts vanilla ice cream
graham pie crust
3 egg whites and 1/2 cup sugar
Melt the butter in a saucepan on med heat, add rind, juice, salt, and 1 cup sugar. Beat the whole eggs and yolks together and stir into butter mixture (I'm all about cutting corners in recipes, but you do really have to mix this before adding it and make sure the butter mixture isn't too hot or you'll get little pieces of cooked egg in your mixture). Cook until thick and smooth. Cool.
Put 1/2 ice cream in the graham crust. Harden in the freezer. Add 1/2 lemon mixture, 1/2 ice cream, and 1/2 lemon mixture, freezing between layers.
Beat egg whites until foamy. Add sugar gradually and beat until stiff. Spread on pie, sealing to edge. Bake at 475 degrees for 4 min. Freeze overnight before serving.
When we spent a year in Korea, some of you know we coined it our "year without TV." This didn't start out as an intentional decision. Our TV is not so very new, and we were allowed a small weight limit for our move (we were unaccompanied for you military folks). We decided our TV wasn't worth it's weight in entertainment, and we figured we would upgrade to a flat screen while we were closer to the land where all things electronic are born. Patrick got to Korea a few weeks before Adeline and I arrived to find us an apartment, buy a car, and receive our shipment of goods. He didn't have a TV during those weeks, so he downloaded episodes of LOST and an occasional movie. When we arrived, I was busy setting up our home. After a few weeks, we realized we didn't really miss our TV all that much. I started blogging, and that gave me a whole new outlet for any spare time....can I get an amen?!? I caught up on LOST during the weeks that Patrick worked nights. We downloaded movies or episodes of LOST and The Office (to watch when WE wanted to watch them).
Here's the pie version...just double it for a 9x13 pan, and since I use extra large eggs, I only use 3 eggs and 5 egg yolks/whites when I double it. The pictures don't do it justice. The layers of yellow and white really are pretty. If you need a recipe for a graham crust, let me know.
