The purpose of What’s For Dinner? is to provide you a recipe with items on sale this week, with no more than 10 ingredients (not including pantry items), and coming in at under $10 per meal.
Most of the time, I provide you meal ideas on What’s For Dinner.
Today, I said, “Pfooey.” I want to talk about the most important part of a dinner – dessert.
Oranges are on sale EVERYWHERE this week. You can get 3 or 5 lbs of oranges as part of Price Chopper Deals or Hy-Vee Deals.
So besides eating oranges raw, what else can you do with them….
Make some cheesecake, baby!
Grandmother’s Cheesecake
(Adapted from AllRecipes.com)
Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
1/2 vanilla bean
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 egg yolk
5 packages of cream cheese (8 oz), softened
1.75 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1.5 teaspoons grated lemon zest
1.5 teaspoons grated orange zest
1/2 vanilla bean
5 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup heavy cream
Directions
- In a large bowl, combine 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon peel, and 1 teaspoon orange peel. Split a 1-inch piece of vanilla bean; scrape seeds into flour mixture. Cut in butter until mixture resembles course crumbs. Add 1 egg yolk; stir until all flour is moistened. Gather dough into ball, wrap in wax paper, and refrigerate for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
- Lightly butter a 9 inch springform pan. Roll dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thick; trim to a 10 inch circle. Press pastry circle into bottom and 1/2 inch up sides of a 9 inch buttered springform pan. Refrigerate 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Bake crust for 20 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on wire rack.
- Beat cream cheese, 1 3/4 cups sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon peel and 1 1/2 teaspoons orange peel in large mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes. Split a 1 inch piece of vanilla bean and scrape seeds into cream cheese mixture. Beat in 5 eggs and 2 egg yolks, 1 at a time, on medium speed. Stir in cream.
- Pour filling into crust. Bake 15 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). DO NOT OPEN OVEN DOOR! Bake until cheesecake is firm in center, about 50 minutes. Turn off oven; leave cheesecake in oven with door slightly open for 1 hour. Remove from oven, and cool completely on wire rack. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.
Candied Oranges. (OH BABY!)
1/2 cup of white sugar
- Place peel strips in large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes longer. Drain. Repeat this process two more times.
- In a medium saucepan, heat sugar and 1/4 cup water over high heat until boiling. Place peel in sugar mixture, reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes, until sugar is dissolved. Remove peel with slotted spoon and dry on wire rack overnight. Store in airtight container.
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