8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #4

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Oh the possibilites! Could we write a cookbook about cooking with peeps? Can we make this happen?!?!?!

Looks like we have some competition.

Do-Si-Dos Cheesecake

CHEF: Robyn Fennessey

CATEGORY: Desserts

FOOD MOOD: Quick and Easy

CUISINE: New American/Regional

INGREDIENTS
1 package Do-Si-Dos Cookies (peanut butter sandwich cookies)
1/4 cup butter (soft)
16 oz. cream cheese (soft)
2 tbsp. milk
1/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. salt

METHOD
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Separate peanut butter cookies and scrape off filling and save. Grind cookies and butter in a food processor into crumbs. Press into the bottom of a spring form pan. Bake in oven for 8 minutes.
Combine cream cheese, sugar, filling from inside of cookie and milk in a mixer. Mix at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add salt and mix well.

Pour over crust. Bake 40-45 minutes. Loosen cake from rim. Cool before removing from pan.
Best served with fresh fruit like blackberries, strawberries or raspberries.

 

[tom31b]

 

[got2travel]

I saw a mention of peeps in the microwave....and wanted to share this!


I do this project with my afterschool kids around easter and they love it! (parents do too because then they don't have too!)

We make S'meeps!

Basically they are S'mores except we use peeps instead of regular marshmallows!
They kids can choose whatever color they want and they build the bottom half (graham cracker,chocolate and peep) we micro and when it comes out they top with other cracker half!

Then after all the kids make one we put a row in (usually the chicks work better) and micro the entire row! They love seeing them go from normal to bizzare looking!

Chrissie

 

[radioclash2]

Maybe report to one of the Webmasters?? It kind of sounds like going through the Jedi order....The padowans answer to the jedimasters, the moderators answer to the Webmasters, etc etc??

nice use of the star wars analogy.

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Or how about this, not quite Peep-a-Mints but interesting.

Thanks-a-Lot Strawberry Mille Feuille

CHEF: Robyn Fennessey

CATEGORY: Desserts

FOOD MOOD: Quick and Easy

CUISINE: New American/Regional

DESCRIPTION
This is a no-bake, pretty, with great texture. Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS
1 package Thanks-A-Lot Cookies
1/2 quart heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 package of strawberries (sliced)
1 sprig mint

METHOD
Whip cream in mixer and slowly add sugar and vanilla.

Make individual desserts as follows:
Place a cookie on individual dessert plates with the chocolate part facing down. Using a piping bag, pipe some cream over the cookie. Next add strawberries (let strawberries stick out from the sides). Top with another cookie, then repeat with cream and strawberries. Finish to off with another cookie. Add a dollop of cream and a sprig of mint. Serve!

 

[tom31b]

Wiki on peeps:

Peep jousting
The messy and largely self-entertaining game, "Peeps Jousting" is played with a microwave oven. One takes two Peeps, and licks the right-hand side of each until sticky. A toothpick is thereby adhered to each Peep, pointing forward like a jousting lance. The Peeps are then set in a microwave, squared off against one another, and heated up. As they expand, the toothpick lances thrust toward each opponent, and the winner is the one that does not pop and deflate (or fizzle and die). Both usually are eaten after the competition, however, regardless who the victor was, calling into question the nature of "winning" in such a circumstance.[1] This folkloric tradition has been noted by the Washington Post. Peeps jousting has also been called such names as "mortal peep fight."[2]

 

[tom31b]

More wiki

[edit] Photo and videos
There is a whole genre of Peeps videos on video sites such as YouTube ranging from parodies of movies such as Star Wars and Pink Floyd's The Wall, Monty Python and PT 109. There are also Peeps put on grills, placed in microwave ovens, expanded in a vacuum, run over by cars, and used in political commentary. The Seattle Times has an annual contest of Peeps used in photos, and the Washington Post holds a Peeps diorama contest every Easter.


[edit] Peep slaughters
The Smith College Science Fiction and Fantasy Society has been holding an annual spring Peep slaughter since 1981. Peeps are "massacred" in ways ranging from being flushed down the toilet to be given Viking funerals on the campus pond. The practice reportedly began among students at the University of Massachusetts and was brought to Smith at a Passover seder.

 

[buckifan]

I JUST saw this website!

Very informative....it explains how to select the proper peeps, how to harvest them and peep planting tips!

 

[got2travel]

I bet that is a sentence you could not have predicted using today...

actually with all the peep talk recently, it is highly likely many of us have uttered these words

 

[tom31b]

I JUST saw this website!

Very informative....it explains how to select the proper peeps, how to harvest them and peep planting tips!

When they are ripe and firm enough?

 

[radioclash2]

It was the Mediterranean cruise question,s the first posters questions were answered quickly, someone then hijacked it, I as ever tried a balance response, in a professional way,

I am not pleased with the Mod's final closing comments. Maybe I took them the wrong way, but I take them to say the poster who upset me and others is correct, and he wouldn't travel to Europe.

If you read the full thread and the Dis profile, its interesting.

http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=23647705&postcount=68

Andrew, I wish I could post what I'm thinking. I gotta leave it there before I embarass myself. You are the man.

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Ode to Peeps

'Twas the night before Easter
And all through the condo
I hunted the candy
That I am most fond o'
Chocolate rabbits are nice,
Jelly beans may be yummy,
But there's only one treat
That I want in my tummy.

A creature of yellow
Pink, purple or blue
With little brown eyes
And a tiny beak too.

Oh dear, wherefore are you,
Wee marshmallow chick?
If we didn't buy you,
I'm gonna be sick.

No basket has value
If this treat it lacks,
Made of two kinds of sugar
And carnuba wax.

Potassium sorbate,
Dyes 6, 3, and 8
Sodium, protein
Total fat 0 g.

Your recipe secret
That's the way it must be-eth
If the market were flooded,
No one would have te-eth

The marshmallow bunnies
Make their debut, too.
But for the Peep purist,
Only chickens will do.

You must bite their heads off,
That's the best way to start.
Then work you way down
To the nethermost part.

Last year, on a challenge,
We did something brave
And popped a whole plateful
In the microwave.

First they just puffed up
Like Uncle Ben's rice,
Then collapsed into puddles
The sight was not nice.

So I went to the makers
Just Born, for a look
At their Internet Web site
And found a cookbook!

There were Peeps inside cupcakes
And Peeps on a stick.
Even Peeps dessert pizza-
Yo! Feed me some quick!

Still some mock this candy,
And that makes me weep
For what they are missing,
Oh, long live the Peep!

 

[buckifan]

When they are ripe and firm enough?

Selecting Peeps
Before you begin to cook with Peeps, you need to consider the important questions of what kinds of Peeps to use and where to obtain them.

The two most common varieties of Easter Peeps are regular Peeps Chicks and the more recent Peeps Bunnies. These are indistinguishable in flavor, but each has a distinct shape that may work better in some recipes. Yellow, pink, and lavender Peeps are the most common; Once again, flavor differences are subtle if present at all. It's mostly a matter of aesthetics.

Supermarkets commonly stock Peeps. They generally come stuck together and shrink-wrapped in little cartons. This is the way that most people experience their Peeps. It is undeniably the quickest and easiest way to get on your way to Peep-cooking heaven.



However, there is another way of obtaining the marshmallow goodness, and it is the way that is much preferred by true connoisseurs. There is nothing in the world to compare to freshly harvested Peeps. To begin, you should plant your Peeps in late spring. Use a shovel to dig a little hole, then drop Peeps in clusters of two or three into the hole. You may actually eat most of the Peep body; As long as the eyes are planted, the Peeps will grow. Different colors may be planted in the same hole, but you will probably want to keep the varieties separate.


Finally, it's time to pick your peeps! After several months the plants will grow, mature, and eventually bear fruit in the form of delicious, fresh Peeps. Pick them when they have just become plump, fluffy, and soft. Peeps plants will generally continue to produce for up to five weeks.

 

[sk8ingmom]

S'mints

 

[mkygrl]

It's like a Peep-Pa-Palooza in here !

(Great title for a cook book: Peepapalooza:Cooking with Peeps!)


Chrissie

 

[got2travel]

 

[cruisin'Mike]

questionable is right. I heard he was planning on wandering the hallways in his boxers.

Oh come on now with the !

Actually, the boxers will be the last to get packed just in case I run out of room in the suitcase.

Now you can use your as much as you like.

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

 

[mkygrl]

Love da peeps!

 

[tom31b]