29 top the half shell with Recipes

deep dish pie shells, butter, bananas (sliced ), light brown sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon, dark rum, walnuts (chopped ), half-and-half, sugar, salt, egg yolks (room temp ), cornstarch, cold unsalted butter, sliced into 4 slices, vanilla extract, topping, whipped cream as garnish, caramel sauce (good quality ), candy sprinkles (optional) or nuts, oro dried bananas (optional)

shrimp, drained , reserving liquid, crab meat , drained , reserving liquid (and remove and shells), cream cheese , cubed, and room temperature, olive oil, flour, salt, garlic , crushed, prepared horseradish, asiago cheese , grated, parmesan cheese , grated, half-and-half, prepared marinara sauce (they use barilla, drained to remove excess liquid), fresh parmesan cheese , finely shredded, for topping

pie shell, baked and cooled, marshmallows, cut in half, milk, semisweet chocolate piece, ripe bananas, frozen non-dairy whipped topping, thawed

shrimp, shelled and deveined, spaghetti, extra virgin olive oil, butter or 3 tbsp margarine, garlic, finely chopped, salt , to taste, freshly ground coarse black pepper , to taste, fresh lemon , juice of, lemon zest, black olives, cut in half, cream cheese, cut into small cubes, feta cheese, crumbled, fresh parsley , sprinkled over the top for garnish

peanut oil, chopped green onion, white and green parts, minced lemon grass , tender white part only, red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded , and julienned, peeled and grated fresh ginger, rice wine vinegar, minced garlic, chicken stock, homemade or low sodium canned, soy sauce, sugar, chinese chili garlic paste, coarsely chopped chinese fermented black beans, cornstarch dissolved in 1 tbsp cold water, sake, dungeness crab (about 1 1/2 lb), cooked, top shell removed and reserved, cleaned, cracked in half, cut into sections , and claws cracked

tart shell (see note 1), vanilla pudding (made from a box of instant pudding with whole milk or half and half add 1-2 tsp vanilla extract. see), cream (the real thing made with vanilla and sugar. if using on top whip up a full batch now. no topping, wh), fresh fruit, jelly (see note 3) or 1/3 cup jam (see note 3), chambord raspberry liquor (or other liqueur (see note 3) or 2 tbsp framboise liqueur (or other liqueur (see note 3), cream, for the top

qts. chicken stock (must be homemade!), flour, oil, chicken or guinea hen, without giblets, cut up, andouillesausage , sliced about 1/4 thick on the bias (you may substitute hot or mild smoked sausage if good andouille isn tsp available) and/or fresh creole hot sausage, browned, shrimp, peeled and deveined, blue crabs, cleaned, broken in half and claws pulled off (or for a more elegant looking gumbo, omit and instead add 1-1/2 lb lump white crabmeat, picked over for shells and cartilage), okra, sliced (leave out if you don tsp like okra, but be sure to add file at the end if you leave out the okra), onions, chopped, green onions with tops, chopped, bell peppers, chopped, ribs celery, chopped, several cloves garlic, minced, bay leaves, fresh parsley, chopped, black, white and cayenne peppers , to taste, salt to taste, few dashes tabasco , or to taste., file powder (only if you don tsp use okra!), steaming hot louisiana long-grain rice