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Eggs and Cheese

Cream Cheese Omelet

  • 4 oz. cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 4 T chives, chopped
  • 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • Salt and pepper
  • 6 eggs, separated
  • 1-1/2 T butter

Beat the cream cheese and cream together. Add chives, Worcestershire sauce and season. Beat the egg yolks into the cheese mixture. Whip the egg whites until peaked and fold into cheese. Fry omelet in butter, then grill top to brown.

Desserts and Sweets

Loretta’s Carrot Cake

With cream cheese icing

  • 1-1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups brown sugar
  • 1-1/2 t baking powder
  • 3/4 t salt
  • 1-1/2 t baking soda
  • 1-1/2 t cinnamon
  • 1/2 t nutmeg
  • 3 eggs
  • 1-1/4 cups oil
  • 3/4 cups nuts, chopped
  • 2-1/2 cups grated carrots

Sift together the flour, sugars, baking powder, salt, baking soda and spices. Add eggs and oil, nuts, and grated carrots. Stir well.

Pour into 9″ cake pan and bake at 350F for about 40 minutes. Cool and top with Cream Cheese Icing (see below)

FOR THE ICING

  • 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 t vanilla
  • 1 lb. icing sugar

Cream Cheese Icing:  Beat cream cheese and butter together. Add vanilla and icing sugar.

Desserts and Sweets

Lenny-Lenny-Lenny cheesecake

  • 3 packs Philadelphia cream cheese
  • 16 oz. sour cream
  • 1-1/4 cup sugar
  • 5 eggs (7 small)
  • 2 t vanilla
  • Crescent roll dough

Ingredients should be at room temperature. Mix cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time. Spread crescent roll dough in 13 x 9″ pan and fill. Bake for 50 minutes at 350F. Chill well and serve.

Lenny’s a friend of ours who used to spend plenty of time here in Mexico. Whenever there was a special occasion that needed food contributions, Lenny would make his famous cheesecake. It was always enjoyed and is a really easy recipe to put together.

Eggs and Cheese

Cracker-Cheese Blintzes

Here is a way to satisfy your blintz craving even when you can’t find the right ingredients (such as in Mexico in the 1970s). This recipe is from Gert Cohen, who used to make this quick and easy treat some mornings for her family and others (me, for example) who were around at that fortuitous time.

  • 1/2 lb. cream cheese
  • 2 t salt
  • 3 beaten eggs
  • 24 soda crackers
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 6 T butter

Whip up the softened cream cheese. Add 1 t salt and 4 T of the beaten eggs. Mix well. Spread on 12 of the crackers. Top with the other 12 crackers. Beat milk, 1 t salt, and rest of eggs together. Dip crackers in the egg mix, soaking well. Fry cracker blintzes in butter until golden. Serve hot.

Soda crackers