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.