Holiday Cooking - Blogger Style

This week I'm participating with Overwhelmed With Joy! - she is hosting a recipe exchange. I hope you'll all go over and check out the other yummy recipes. Maybe you'll even participate yourself??

My first recipe is one of my favorite ways to make pumpkin pie - it's a little different from the ordinary since it calls for vanilla ice cream.

Tanya's Pumpkin Pie

3 cups vanilla ice cream, softened

3 eggs

1 3/4 cups pumpkin puree'

3/4 cup white sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. ginger

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

2 (9") pie crusts

Preheat oven to 425*. Place ice cream near oven to melt. In a large bowl, beat eggs until smooth. Stir in the pumpkin puree'; stir in sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Mix in melted ice cream. Pour into pie crusts. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce temp. to 350* and bake an additional 30-40 minutes or until filling is set.

*Category: Dessert

I've made this recipe a couple of times since I found it and it is so yummy!

It combines stuffing and corn into one delicious mixture - enjoy.

Corny Stuffing Balls

1/4 cup butter

1/4 cup onion

1 3/4 cups stuffing - any kind will work

1 1/2 cups corn

1 1/2 eggs, beaten

1/4 cup water

1/4 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. pepper

1. Preheat oven to 375*.
2. Saute' onion in butter until tender; cool.
3. In a bowl combine stuffing croutons, corn, eggs, water, salt, pepper, and onion/butter mixture; mix well. Shape into 4-6 balls (more depending on how big you would like them).
4. Place in an ungreased shallow baking dish.
5. Bake at 375* for 25-30 minutes.

Category: Side Dishes