LVA Cooking Club: just a little going on

Haven't done much interesting cooking worth writing about. My whoopie pies are a hit and I'm sticking with the recipe I modified for my second batch.

Worked on chocolate cakes this summer a little. Big change there: dropped one recipe and resurrected another. The big change was baking the layers a little longer. The results have been very good.

Last week, a co-worker brought in some caramel corn. It wasn't good (to me). It had an off-taste that made me think of bad fish-fry oil. Turns out the caramel corn was made with nori, seawood used to wrap sushi. Don't know why anyone would use that, but the coworker's wife is food writer. She had several cookbooks out, is a columnist for a magazine, and is on NPR and the like on a regular basis.

I decided to try my own hand at caramel corn. So I whipped out a bunch. I love it. Easy-peasy recipe. To push it over the top, over half the batch, I drizzled chocolate. Da bomb.

having friends over for wife's birthday and the packer game this sunday.
wings, various sausages, cole slaw recipe, rolls, home made salsa and chips,
bloody mary's, beer, etc......but most importantly s'mores for dessert.

hey. i just realized i'm over 1000 posts. i want my t-shirt!

TB, you're making my mouth water! I love caramel corn & I love choc.!! So that would be right up my alley

I'm not on here a lot but have read some of your posts on recipes, food etc. So I thought today I'd share one of my easiest & favorite dessert recipes w/you. It may be simple but it's yummy! And it only takes 3 ingredients!! It's an ice cream pie!!

Let 1/2 gal. of mint choc. chip ice cream soften. Mix it w/a 4 serv. size box of Jell-O's 'White Choc' instant pudding (I use an elec mixer) then pour into an Oreo choc cookie crust and freeze. Depending on size of the crust, it may fill 2 crusts. If any is left over but not enough to fill a crust, I pour it in a container, freeze and eat it

The fun part is coming up w/various flavor combinations - you decide what you want. Just use any graham cracker or cookie crust, flavor of ice cream of your choice and a complimentary flavor or instant pudding. I've also drizzled toppings on top such as the type that hardens like a shell, nuts, sprinkles etc. I've also used some of the Starbucks coffee ice creams. One time I layered 2 flavors that complimented each other (freeze the 1st layer then add the 2nd layer & freeze again).

Thanks for letting me share my little recipe w/you & others

Gonna be a while before we get back to really cooking. And I've still not found a house for sale with two ovens and eight burners. Damn.

But on the positive side, we're heading out with tons of fresh chiles, green and red, various varieties, and a boatload of tomatoes.