crowbelle's Diaryland Diary
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Recipe Sharing
Just Had To Share This Recipe...
It's by Paula Deen . She is on the Food Network and she has a restaurant called The Lady & Sons in Savannah, GA. I just got her cookbook for my birthday recently, and today, a little early for Mother's Day, we had Paul's folks here for a luncheon at Crow Cottage, and I made one of Paula's recipes for dessert. It was so yummy, I just had to share it with you.
ORANGE NUT COFFEE CAKE
(not sure that's exactly what she calls it but it's close enough)
2 packages of 10 each buttermilk biscuits (the kind that come in the tube and you bake them on a sheet)
1 package of cream cheese
Divide up the cream cheese into 20 little squares evenly (it helps if you get the cream cheese cold first)
Put one square of cream cheese onto each biscuit, and fold over and seal into a ball shape.
Melt 1 stick of butter.
Mix together:
3/4 cup sugar
zest of 1 orange
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts
Take each biscuit ball and dip in the butter all over. Then roll it into the sugar/nut mixture to coat. Then put into the bottom of a
Lightly greased bundt pan.
Do this with all 20 biscuits, going around the pan, approx 2 layers will do it.
Drizzle any left-over mixture or butter over it all.
In a 350 degree preheated oven, bake this for 35-40 mins.
Take out of oven, turn upside down on a plate, and let cool before drizzling with glaze
Glaze:
Mix 1 cup sifted confectioner's sugar with 2 tablespoons of orange juice (I just used the juice from the orange that I had zested)
All the biscuits puff up and make the most yummy sinful thing you have ever tasted.
It was a big hit with Paul and his folks today.
For Mother's Day, we gave his Mom two peony plants. That was something she'd wanted for a while now. They have a small garden at their apartment complex (like a community garden area) and they will get planted there.
We had a nice time today with them. I got two kinds of bread, one was sunflower bread and one was French boule bread, sliced them up and served cold cuts of Finlandia Swiss cheese, honey ham, and sliced turkey, along with sliced tomatoes, lettuce, kosher dill pickles, a bowl of Utz chips, and mayo and deli mustard, along with some red pepper hummus (his dad and I are the only one who tried this and it was so good).
It was a perfect lunch, and all enjoyed it. I think Paul is having another sandwich now, but I'm skipping supper tonight. One of those sandwiches was quite enough for the whole day!
So it's back to work for me tomorrow, and on thru the week. It was a good early Mother's Day here for Paul's Mum, and we are just so thankful that she and his Dad are still here to join us so often lately.
Happy Mother's Day to all my friends who are mothers themselves. (I guess being the "mother" of dogs doesn't count!)
Now if we can just not float away by the end of this week (we have had rain for several days straight now and the forecast is for more of it all week long...like in the range of 6+ inches of rain just this weekend!) we'll be doing good.
Cheers,
Bex
P.S. I found this picture of our peony garden at my webshots site:
by crowbelle
We have four original peony plants in that garden by the dog's yard and they have mushroomed into a whole corner garden of them. I used to stake them up but now I let them grow naturally, and flop all over the place. The smell devine when they are blooming!
8:04 pm - 13 May 2006
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