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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1982)
Portland Observer, July 21,1982 Section II Page 5 Getting out of the kitchen: Everybody loves Peanut Butter Pie Simple Summer Cooking EL U E F Y F R O Z E N P E A N U T B U T T E R P IE Peanut Butter Crust (below) 1 % cups Peanut Butter Chips 1 package (3 oz.) cream cheese, softened !/j cup milk 14 cup confectioners* sugar 2 cups frozen non-dairy whipped topping (thawed) Chocolate curls (optional) !A cup cooked cut wax beans !4 cup chopped green pepper % cup chopped red onion 2 tablespoons bottled creamy French dressing. Prepare Peanut Butter C rust. In top o f double boiler over hot water, melt peanut butter chips; cool slightly. In medium mixing bowl beat cream cheese until smooth; gradually add m ilk, blending well. Beat in sugar and melted peanut butter chips until smoooth; fold in whipped topping. Spoon into pre pared crust. C over, freeze until firm . I f desired, decorate with chocolate curls. In bowl, combine beans, green pep per, onion and dressing. C h ill 4 hours or more; stir occasionally. Serve on salad greens; garnish with red onion rings. M akes about 3'A cups, 4 servings. C H IC K E N L U A U P E A N U T B U TTER CRUST 1 package (28 oz.) frozen fried chicken 'A cup drained crushed pineapple 14 cup honey 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds Prepare chicken according to package d irections. M ea n w h ile , com bine pineapple and honey. Spread on thick last 20 minutes o f heating time. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Makes 4 servings. When outdoor fun makea your dinner hour uncertain, that's the time for In-A-Wink Three Bean Salad and Chicken Luau. Now that those "lazy, hazy, cra zy" days are with us once again, it’s time to summer-ize your life. Casual is in. Fussy is o ut. Spending the m inim um time preparing meals is in. Com plex recipes are definitely out. Speaking of avoiding work, who was it who said that laziness is the m other o f nine out o f ten inven tions? The following recipes could have been created with that premise in mind. In any event, the results are certain to please the leisure-lovers among us. In -A -W in k Three Bean Salad and Chicken Luau not only arc a snap to fix, but they wait pa tiently for the last mealtime strag gler. The beauty o f In -A W ink Three Bean Salad is that you combine the ingredients in the m orning and that's that. It's ready whenever you are to delight your wandering clan. The three beans in the title refer to convenient pork-and-beans in toma to sauce, green beans and wax beans. Use toe pork and beans d i rectly from the can. The other two may also be canned, yet leftovers arc perfect here. Adding zest to this attractive salad arc green pepper, red onion and a little French dres sing which, along with the tom ato sauce, unites the other components. W hat makes C hicken Luau so appealing is the fact that it starts w ith a package o f frozen fried chicken P rep aratio n involves no more than heating it in the oven, then spreading it with a mixture o f crushed pineapple and honey to ward the end. This crispy sweet en tree comes to the table w ith a sprinkling o f sesame seeds— and a chorus o f ooh’s and ah's. This no-bake dessert features double-peanutty flavor, for both the filling and crust are made with peanut butter chips. The chips couldn’t be easier to use— simply chop them up and combine them with vanilla wafer crumbs and butter for the crust. Then melt them and blend into that luscious, smooth fill ing. (They even add a bonus o f protein, niacin and riboflavin because they’re made from real peanuts!) V* cup Peanut Butter Chips, chopped 1 cup vanilla wafer or graham cracker crumbs 3 tablespoons butter or margarine Chop peanut butter chips in blender or food pro cessor, or w ith nut chopper; in 9-inch pie pan, combine chips and crumbs. Drizzle with melted but ter or margarine; mix well. Press onto bottom and up sides o f pie pan; freeze. -Cola bottles. ^ í o ld - W r a p Hold on to the cold. Accessorize the menu w ith re l ishes, corn bread squares and eye catching fru it p arfa its. For these, use either fresh, frozen or canned fruit alternated with whipped cream or plain yogurt. And there you have a marvelously in fo rm a l— yet well thought out — meal w ith which to greet those flexible dinner times o f summer. IN A W IN K T H R E E B E A N SALAD 1 can (16 oz.) pork-and-beans in tomato sauce Vi cup cooked cut green beans The cold wrap is a hand of insulation wrapped around a 16 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola. It keeps your Coke icy cold inside, so you can enjoy maximum refreshment from the first delicious sip to the last. Plus the cold wrap makes your icy Coke easy to hold. So get a holt! on the last ¡ng cold of Coca-Cola in "cold-wrap hotties.
