Hawaiian Cheesecake Bars

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
16 ounces cream cheese
4 TBS sugar
4 TBS milk
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
16 ounces crushed pineapple, drained
2 cups flaked coconut
2 TBS melted butter

Directions:
1 - Combine flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup butter. Pat mixture into ungreased 9 X 13 pan. Bake at 350 oven for 14-19 minutes. Cool slightly.
2 - Mix together cream cheese, 4 TBS sugar, milk and eggs. Fold in vanilla, and drained pineapple. Spread over baked crust.
3 - Combine coconut and 2 TBS melted butter. Sprinkle over pineapple layer filling. Bake 350 for 15-20 minutes

4 - Cool and cut into desired size bars .
This is a recipe that I use all the time from ..
www.threecookingsisters.com

Yum.... Gotta try.

Libby's (the one who has the canned pumpkin) came out with a packaged pumpkin cheese cake.  I tried it; very good.   Find it in the alise that has the canned pie fillings.

Another yum:  Add a touch of instant coffee to your pecan pie recipe.  Makes it very good.

One of my favorites during wintertime: Common mussels = my dinner last night

Sweat one onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 carrots, 1/2 leek, 2-3 tomatoes, 1/4 celery in some oil, fill up with a small can of mashed tomatoes, 2 TSP balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, one chili, thymian, and 2 bay leafs - let the whole stuff simmer for a while ( 15 min ).
Put the cleaned and rinsed mussels in it for about 8 minutes.
Only a spoon, some fresh white bread and a glass of white whine - bon appetit !

I have a recipe that's quick and easy, start to finish, approximately 2 miutes, honest.

1 cake mix, any flavor

1 angel food cake mix

Mix the two mixes together in a gallon zipper bag and store for instant use.

Place three tbsp of the mix and two tbsp water into a coffee mug or tea cup.  Mix well with a spoon, microwave 1 minute

It's best if you let it cool, but can be eaten hot.

No fat, no mess and it's a quick snack when the cupboards are bare.  And you don't have to be a good baker, it's foolproof.  Okay, now I have to make a biased statement, just because!  So easy, even a man can't mess it up :)

I sometimes sprinkle two or three bittersweet chocolate chips on top while it's hot and let them melt in.  You can top it with fruit, frosting, anything you want, or you can just eat it plain.  Is it the best cake I've ever had? No.  Is it the worst cake I've ever had?  Not nearly.  It's better than a Hostess HoHo :)

My personal favorite is spice cake with a bit of cream cheese.

Sounds like a yummy snack Travels, except I don't have a microwave.

I'll have to tweek it a little, and try it in the oven.

I'd think it would probably ta15 about 10-15 minutes in the oven.  Let me know if you try it.

How to eat Sea Urchin
How To: Open & Eat Sea Urchin (Uni)

Published on Aug 2, 2013

A sure sign you're a foodie: you can't get enough of the mind-blowing (and totally unique) flavor of sea urchin. It's thought of as a delicacy and can be pricey, and it's no wonder because those urchins are hard to crack into. We got chef Mark Dommen of One Market in San Francisco to show us the magic method to get those tasty bites out of this spiny creature. Bet you didn't know you were eating reproductive 

That was gross.
 

I want to try the Uni, susie's muscles and a host of other things. :) Cooking and preparing a meal with care is relaxing therapy.

How To Catch And Cook Razor Fish/Clams.Seashore To Plate.
Ingredients: Razor fish, oil, chorizo, parsley & lemon.

Published on Apr 20, 2014

From seashore to plate in 4 hours,we catch the Razor Clams using an ingenious method,then steam them open and serve them with chorizo lemon and parsley.Shellfish does not get fresher than this.

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Published on Sep 10, 2012
Quang Dang, Executive Chef at West, shows you how to clean a geoduck clam.

Ocean Wise is a Vancouver Aquarium conservation program created to educate and empower consumers about the issues surrounding sustainable seafood.

Once, on a dive trip, our divemraster brought back a conch from one of the fishing boats (it was in season) and the chef at our resort made a conch salad (a friend still has the shell) sea to table in 15 minutes.  It was a good, spicy dish, but I never would have been able to kill it.  I've never been able to kill things, I even save spiders :)  I do understand that life is about death, I just don't want to parttake in the killing and I don't like watching something die.  I imagine if I had to, I would kill animals for survival, but...

I do have a confession to make, I flush stink bugs and I smash millipedes, the ones that run at warp speed.  Those are the only things I actually kill on purpose.