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Glad Molly is doing well, love good news, hugs and prayers
Sharlene:
I think that is a great idea with regard to the knives in the kitchen. That did happen to me once when Toby was underfoot and it scared me when the knife fell, it was a small one, but I make him go and lay away from where I am working now. I am glad she is doing well. It is nice not to have worries on your mind for a while. Blessings
Patti
Sharlene, I just saw you mention a coconut pie on Trish's thread. :) :) :)
If it turns out good, would you be willing to share the recipe???? I LOVE COCONUT PIE!!! :p :D :p :D
Oh you bet Marianne. I haven't made it yet. I got sidetracked with taking my mother in law to the mall, then there was this wonderful Restaurant supply store, that I was in I bet for an hour! Then dinner out, which involved, peach bellini's, wine and thank god, cappuccino's. Now I know I said I was making it tonight, but I'm thinking it's going to be after a nap maybe tonight. LOL I'll go ahead and post the recipe. Whomever makes it first, has to report back!
Impossible Pie
All the ingredients are mixed together and poured into a pie tin, but when it cooks it forms its own crust with filling This has a coconut vanilla taste like a coconut cream pie
Ingredients
2 cups milk
1 cup shredded coconut
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup all purpose flour
8 Tablespoon butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Directions
Place milk, coconut, eggs, vanilla, flour, butter and sugar in blender (now see, I'm thinking you can just use a hand mixer to blend). Mix well.
Pour into a greased and floured pie plate. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45
Sounds easy enough right?! Enjoy Marianne! I love Coconut pie too
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Here is another version using Bisquick:
Ingredients
1 cup flaked or shredded coconut
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup Original Bisquick® mix
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
Directions
1 Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 9-inch pie plate with shortening or cooking spray.
2 In medium bowl, stir all ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.
3 Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until golden brown and knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.
Sharlene:
These recipes sound wonderful where did you get them? Do you put anything on the coconut pie or serve it plain? I bet that makes a good smell in the kitchen when it's baking, I am going to try it. Blessings
Patti
I make an Impossible Pie often - it's inexpensive and so easy! But I don't like grated coconut so I leave that out and my recipe is a tad bit different. My mom has a great coconut pie recipe that I make for Mark during the Holidays since he loves that pie!
I have a custard pie recipe that you can adapt for either coconut or chocolate and all are wonderful. It is my sisters recipe. My sister is an awesome baker. I thought I would try this one and realized I have a box of Bisquick that has to be used, so I went with the second recipe I posted and it's in the oven now. Could not get the softened butter to do more than be small pieces in all that liquid, so I'll let you know how it turns out.
After the pie comes out of the oven, a peach cobbler will be going in. Not making huge amounts, so 9 in pie, 8x8 cobbler should be good, served with whipped cream or ice cream and espresso's. This is mother in laws last night here and I'll be making a creamy pesto sauce with penne pasta and chicken tonight for dinner and thinly sliced garlic bread.
Molly will be on kitchen guard duty as usual. :) So, some of the chicken I'll save back for her.
She btw is doing fine. Those stairs still get to her though, I thought we had a break through but hubby had to help her up the last few steps yesterday after she got stuck and just stood there on the step. He lifted her and then sort of glided her up a couple steps then put her down and let her go the last two on her own.
Leslie feel free to share any recipes! LOL
hugs all
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Sounds great Sharlene. Lucky Mother-in-Law. Molly says woof-woof, mmmm good. Love, JoAnne
Mmmmmm coconut pie... I love coconut but never had it in a pie. Not sure what bisquick is, so will google it :D Your MIL will never leave at this rate Sharlene :D She sounds like a lovely lady so hope you have enjoyed having her to stay and all the shopping etc! It is tiring though :)
Kitchen guard duty is an important part of a doggies day and they take it very seriously don't they :D can't have any chicken bits littering the floor!
Impossible Pie (makes two pies; I cut everything in half for one pie and it works just fine)
4 eggs
1 stick oleo, melted
2c. sugar
2c. milk
½ c. self-rising flour
1 tsp. vanilla
2c. grated coconut
Beat eggs, sugar and melted oleo. Add flour, milk and vanilla. Mix well. Stir in coconut flakes. Mix well. Pour into two 9 inch pie plates (this makes its own crust). Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until top is lightly browned.
(Since I don't eat grated/flaked coconut, I leave it out and it is still a good pie!)
My mom's coconut cream pie recipe -
1 c sugar
3 tbsp. cornstarch
1/3 tsp. salt
2 c milk
3 egg yolks, beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tbsp butter
2/3 cup grated coconut
1 baked 9-inch pie shell
coconut for topping
Mix sugar, cornstarch, and slat in sauce pan; add milk gradually, stirring in, and start to cook over medium heat. Add 3 - 4 spoonfulls of this mixture to the beaten egg yolks; stir into pan and continu to cook until thick, stirring often. Remove from heat. Add vanilla, butter and coconut. Top with Basic Meringue (recipe to follow) and sprinkle with grated coconut. Bake at 325 degrees until meringue is browned, about 5-10 minutes.
Basic Meringue
3 egg whites
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
6 tbsp sugar
Beat egg whites, salt and cream of tartar until stiff but not dry (should make nice peaks). Gradually add sugar and beat after each addition until sugar is partially dissolved. Place on top of cream filled pie, making sure to cover completely to the edges.
(The secret to this perfect, beautiful meringue is a very clean bowl and very clean instruments. Wash everything just before making the meringue, taking extra care that any oil, fats, etc are completely removed and all is dried well.)
I use this same basic recipe for all my cream pies - chocolate, strawberry, peanut butter - all of them and they are always delicious!
Send the flops my way. I'm not picky! :D xxxx
Your mom's recipe sounds like my sisters recipe that I use when I make a custard pie, then adapt for coconut or chocolate.
My mother in law leaves tomorrow. I do adore her, but she has turned my kitchen and refrigerator upside down. I have things frozen and in containers everywhere from her cooking nonstop. LOL I love her, but sometimes I need a break from the nonstop, just everything I guess. I'm use to having some space and quiet I guess. Gosh I sound like a fuddy duddy but I need that down time or I get super cranky. I've always been like that.
Molly is being great with her here though. She loves having Her people around and runs into mums bedroom every morning to check things out, once she is up of course. :)
Oh you must try a coconut pie if you like coconut Trish. You don't need Bisquick, you can just use a regular recipe and as you can see, there are several ways to make it.
hugs,
sharlene and Molly muffin
Sharlene:
How nice of you mother in law to cook and make things for you. You are a lucky ducky! It could probably get overwhelming though. I bet Molly loves having her. That's an extra person to wait on her royal highness!! Have a good weekend and enjoy you company. Blessings
Patti
Awww she sounds like a great house guest! Trouble is you will spend the next week locating all your kitchen utensils!! Flynny loves visitors too and will go in first thing in the morning like Molly, if they have the door shut he impatiently waits on the other side, pawing it a little so they know he is waiting for his morning hello's!
When I finish this diet I will most definitely be trying a coconut pie, I do like meringue on top too so will add that as Leslie suggested... well its vegemite on toast for brekky here!!
yea, she is a good house guest. Tries very hard to be helpful and not impose of anyone. I'm sure I'll locate everything eventually. LOL Lucky I won't be cooking this week at all. Hubby is traveling for work, and mum has left enough food in various containers that I won't need to cook for myself at all.
Molly hasn't realized she isn't coming back tonight, but tomorrow she'll be mopey probably (till distracted by something else of course)
Okay, off to go see Gravity now! I've heard it's good! This is date night after mum's visit. :)
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Sharlene:
Poor Molly she will miss her Grandmother. I am sure she will figure out some way for you to make it all up to her!! Blessings
Patti
Well, I guess I'm making pies this weekend. I love the "mix everything together" part!
Wanted to check on Molly. Hope all is well (as possible).
Donna
Hi :) Molly is doing good still. She's about due for another round of test though to check her levels. Will talk with the vet about whether we are going to need another ultrasound too. Not sure about that yet. But she acts good, poops are normal, she wants people food still (from that round chicken and rice during the bacterial infection) and would like to skip her dog food all together. LOL She can't, she doesn't drink nearly enough water without the SO food mixed in there somewhere.
If you are making the coconut pie, use a 10 inch pie plate/tin, not the 9 inch. 9 inch isn't big enough and over flows. ICK. Yes, I had to clean the oven in between baking rounds. I wasn't nearly as impressed with the peach cobbler.
ciao all
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Seems to be the time for our routine checkups on the forum, here's hoping all of them do well and get good results.
When was her last ultrasound done? I do think it is worth checking them regularly, look at Flynny for example when he had kinda some cush symptoms but negative on testing, it was the ultrasound that eventually picked up his pheo so on that basis alone I would recommend them. Crikey I am not suggesting Molly has one of those but sometimes whatever is wrong with them takes a while to declare itself so I figure catching things early has to be good. But Miss Molly is going to pass her next round with flying colours!!!
LOL I know exactly what you mean. :) She is going to do well and that is exactly why I was wondering about getting another one. She has one last year. Still no symptoms of cushings.
She is currently begging me for some pasta which she has never been allowed but continues to try and convince me that I'm a big ole meanie for withholding it from her. Her begging is that she will sit and look at you and then rock from foot to foot with impatience and eventually if look at her too often, make this humph humph noise at you. She'll get a doggie treat later. :)
Hope you are getting a good start to your holiday.
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Love those Diva Molly stories!
Well, the diva is still a diva with paranoia of the steps.
So, here is the latest. My husband left on Tuesday for a business trip. Molly had all her normal walk times then around 8:30, while I was on the phone yakking with a friend, she went down to the basement and peed, then tried to come up and again, about 4 or 3 steps from the top, I heard her scuffling on the carpet, I ran to the steps and she was just making it to the top. Brat.
She'd just been for a walk at 5pm too. I told Hubby when he called around 10pm that she must have been acting up because she saw him take his suitcase and not come home. The last time she did this was when she had the bacterial infection. I cleaned the pee up with the bissel hand held and there was no discoloration, perfect yellow. I repeat BRAT! she hasn't done it again either.
However, today she goes down the steps, while I was on my work laptop, talking with a colleague and gets to the bottom, sniffs around the basement for awhile, then starts barking. It took a good 15 minutes to convince her to go up the steps on her own. You'd have thought I had asked her to do an impossible task. However, she did finally go up them, with me behind her, and she didn't miss a step at all. She even over jumped the last one to get to the landing. Then she jumps up and down because this is such a major accomplishment for her, she looks like she is on a rubber band going straight up and down on the main floor landing. (so yea, I gave her a yippeee treat) I swear that girl, is such a character. But now the paranoia is even worse. She was bound and determined I would carry her up the steps and I was bound and determined that she would do them on her own. (I won This time).
and so the saga of molly muffin, diva dog, continues. :)
hugs,
Sharlene and molly muffin
So Sharlene, aside from overflowing the pie plate :(, how did the coconut pie turn out?? Would you make it again?
Marianne :)
I'd say it turned it pretty good, my husband had 3 pieces as soon as I told him it had cooled enough. He started with one, and kept going back for more, so that is a good sign. :)
Yes I think I'd make it again. Probably play around with reducing a bit of milk or increasing a bit of the bisquick for a thicker consistency. It does firm up nicely when put into the fridge though.
Sharlene
That Molly sounds so much like Tia. She thought I was supposed to hold her all the time and I always did, just like a baby on my hip! Times like this, I'm glad I did even when everyone made fun of me. What I'd give now to be able to hold her again...
Love and prayers to you all.
Donna and Angel Tia
Hi Sharlene,
It is nice to read that Molly is still up to her princess ways at your house. She sure does know how to keep you in line. :D
I want Coconut Pie!! I think I might make one now and take it around to my parents where we have a working bee this arvo.... I will do a report :D:D
I so know that begging rocking from foot to foot stance! Putting on their I am starving face at the same time, hard to resist!
Right, I am off to search back through your thread for the recipe! xx
Hi Sharlene,
Still going through all the posts and now that I've read all yours and I'm hungry for pie!! Ha..just what I don't need!!
So what do you think Molly and steps is all about?? When my younger daughter was 4 she would say " I just want some "be-ttention"..instead of attention. So, I'm thinking maybe Molly just wants some "bettention" :D or she likes the idea of you spotting her on the way up the scary steps!
Thank you for your sweet messages on my thread while I was away. Getting back to a routine around here and starting to sort out things at my parents house. A big job ahead there...and I've already gotten started this week with the help of a friend and my mom's caregiver. So much stuff to deal with. Decided to take the weekend off and not go to the house until next week. It will be strange having a whole weekend again, it's almost 3 years of what I called eldercare Sunday. We'll have some nice outdoor time this weekend. Trixie is enjoying the chill in the air. Even needed my gloves the last few mornings.
Glad Molly is doing well! Hope you have a nice weekend.
Barbara
Sharlene:
Now you made us all hungry for pie!!!! I bet Molly is in a tither because her Grandmother left and now her dad! She is wondering where is the loyalty?? Blessings
Patti
Ha, her loyalty is right here with me! hahahaha I'm sure she'll be a happy camper though when my husband gets home tomorrow.
At least the rain finally stopped here. Molly doesn't like to go outside in when it is raining. She also doesn't like to get up in the mornings when it is raining. So this morning of course it is dark and rainy, wind blowing and I have to get up and get moving because I am leaving at 10:30 for a memorial service and who doesn't want to get out of bed?! yep, molly just snoring away, until finally I went upstairs and had to rouse her. Then she stretched and wanted to be petted and loved on (they are so cute in the mornings aren't they) so did that with her for a bit, then we went downstairs and she took one look out the window and went and jumped on the couch and prepared to go right back to sleep. I said "I don't think so little miss, I know you have to go to the bathroom, so suck it up, and lets go walkies". I think she might have crossed her eyes and stuck her tongue out at me, but it might have just been a big yawn.
Still we finally got a quick walk in and breakfast done, so she could head back to sleep in her blankets, since she'd gotten wet, she was all about crawling into and making a bed in her blankets. By the time I got home, it had stopped raining and she was ready for a good long walk outside.
Hugs gang,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Sharlene:
Molly is quite the character. I'll have to send Tipper over there for a visit so Molly can teach her to sleep in. It is pitch black out and we are up in this house. It is warmer here today and we are to hit the 60's next week. Blessings
Patti
Sharlene:
We are to get 70's today. I hope you get some of this too!
Blessings
Patti
We're suppose to warm up on Thursday, but along with the warmth comes rain. Not going to be fun for the little trick or treaters if it is raining :(
Sharlene and Molly muffin
Sharlene:
Throughout this journey no matter what has been wrong, you always make me feel better after reading you posts. I just wanted to thank you for that. Blessings
Patti
They are so cute not wanting out in the rain, Flynny is the same with his allergy to water in any form! He will hold on for ages, like nope.. I don't need to go... Yes you do little dog, you not been for 12 hrs!!!
Hope your week is going well, Molly will be happy with hubby's return home. They miss their pack when someone leaves! I must set Mum's ipad up for facetime when I am away so I can check him myself!! xx
Sharlene :
I bet Molly is going to be happy to see her daddy come home. How is your weather holding up? Blessings
Patti
Wind came in like crazy today Patti. :( Rain was yesterday.
It's been a real whirlwind around here this week. A dear friends mother passed unexpectedly and we seem to go from finding out Tuesday night, cooking all Wednesday evening, then funeral on thursday. So, meetings had to be rescheduled, flights rebooked (my husbands meetings were out of town) and then right into the funeral, burial and shiva yesterday, run home for trick or treat and so molly wouldn't be freaking out here by herself with the door bell ringing, then back to work late last night for things that had to be done before today.
In the midst of that Molly decided she didn't want to eat her dry food any more. She'd nibble at it with her morning wet food (she gets about a teaspoon worth in the am) and then wouldn't eat at all for dinner. So, I finally found something that would get her to eat at least most of it, which was Bistro Cesar. I give her about a tablespoon of one of those mixed into the dry food and she'll eat plus the dry, at least most of the dry. She won't drink hardly at all, if I don't get the SO food into her at least a little bit. Otherwise, she will go down to maybe a cup of water all day. Darn dog does not Like water particularly and never seems thirsty enough on her own.
So, a whirlwind like I said. Two funerals in one week, halloween and molly getting finicky (maybe lack of attention caused that, not sure) is just a bit much. It messes with my zen and that won't do.
Molly was quite happy to have hubs home, but we don't seem to have been around much this week and she is not a happy camper about that for sure.
So, hoping to get some recuperation time on the weekend and some quality molly time too.
hugs all,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin
Oh gosh that is a week of it Sharlene. Sorry to hear about all you have going on, my condolences to your friend on the loss of her Mum.
No wonder Molly has gone on a bit of a food strike, hopefully everything will even back out once you all get back into the normal routine. Flynny only drinks about a cup of water a day too, I do mix his probiotic in water and add that to his meals so that's about another half a cup a day but like Molly he is just not a thirsty dog. We hear all about the cush pups drinking gallons but it can be just as worrying when they don't drink enough especially with other problems like crystals etc.
I think you need to collapse in bed and laze a bit! Hope you all have a chance to catch your breath this weekend xxxxx