The Provident Homemaker
  • Recipes and Info
    • Making Bread
  • My Blog
  • Favorite Resources
  • Documents and Files
  • 52 Weeks of Building Storage

No-bake cheesecake

5/23/2014

1 Comment

 
Picture
This is a refrigerator cheesecake; no baking needed!  It takes only about ten minutes until the filling is set enough to serve. This one has a rhubarb topping, but use whatever you like on the top!  The cheesecake can be made gluten-free, and this version is sweetened with honey.  It can even be dairy-free if you have a nondairy substitute for cream cheese; use any milk you prefer in place of the milk called for in this recipe.
This makes one 8x8 pan or one 8" pie pan.  Pick your shape.  :)

Crust:
3/4 c. quick-cooking oats (GF if needed)
1/4 c. oat flour (whirl oats in the blender until powdered)
2 Tbsp. coconut oil (melted) or butter
1 Tbsp. honey, liquid

Stir all four ingredients together, then press into the bottom of an 8x8 pan or up the sides then along the bottom of an 8" pie plate.  Put it in the freezer to firm up while you make the filling.

Filling:
6 oz. cream cheese, softened
3 Tbsp. honey
2 Tbsp. lemon juice (fresh is best)
pinch of salt
1 tsp. vanilla1/2 cup evaporated milk, half-and-half, or whipping cream (or coconut cream)
2 Tbsp. Ultra Gel

Beat the cream cheese until softened, then mix in the honey, lemon juice, salt, and vanilla; beat until smooth.  Gradually add the  milk/cream and Ultra Gel; beat until thick and fluffy.  Spread evenly over the chilled crust.  Let chill for at least 5-10 minutes away if you like. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

Lemon Topping:  1/4 c. lemon marmalade (use this recipe, substituting lemons for orange), thinned with just enough water to make it a sauce.

Rhubarb Topping:
1 c. chopped rhubarb (about 1 big stalk)
1/4 c. water
1 1/2 - 2 Tbsp. honey, to taste

Combine in a microwave-safe bowl.  Microwave for two minutes; stir.  Repeat until the rhubarb is soft.  Mash and taste to see if it's sweet/tart enough for you.  
Picture
1 Comment

Homemade Anna and Elsa dolls

5/3/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
My 11-year-old daughter had decided she really, really wanted some Frozen dolls.  However, having used all her spending money previously on a couple plush My Little Pony toys, the ones we found were way out of her price range.

She flipped through a girls' sewing book, spent a couple days thinking about how to possibly make the dolls instead, and came up with this plan:  find a picture, use it for a pattern, sew two identical pieces together, color, stuff, and stitch closed.

We used plain white knit fabric from my fabric stash so the doll would be softer and a little more forgiving, stuffed it with plain old fiberfill For the Anna doll, we used this coloring page 
Elsa:  in her coronation dress, or with one hand out.  (The one hand out was pretty tricky to turn right-side out, but it worked.)

You'll need a picture, 1/3 yd of fabric (for 11" high dolls, but you'll have enough width for 4 dolls!), needle and thread, sewing machine (optional), a handful or two of fiberfill, and some non-water-soluble markers  (we used a combination of Sharpies and fabric markers).

1- Resize the picture to make the size doll you'd like. 
2- Add 3/8" all the way around the picture*, for a seam allowance, and cut this paper pattern.
3- Pin onto a double layer of fabric, and cut this out.
4- Unpin the pattern from the fabric, take ONE of the fabric pieces, put the pattern piece behind it, hold it up on a window, and, using a Sharpie or fabric marker, trace all the lines you'll need to color later.  Draw in the facial features, neck, dress design, etc. Invent what the back should look like, for the second fabric piece. :)
5- Put the right sides (drawn-on sides) together, and sew 3/8" from the edge, almost all the way around.  Be sure to backstitch when you start and stop!  Leave 2" open.
6- Turn the fabric right-side out, stuff with a handful of fiberfill.
7- Turn the raw edges of the opening inward, and stitch closed, knotting well at both ends.  
8- Color your doll with the markers, front, back, and sides.

*On the coloring pages, the necks are too narrow to pull the rest of the body through when turning the fabric right-side-out after sewing, so shoot for a finished measurement of 1" wide, and just draw the neck the width it should be.

She had a lot of fun marking these- so much that she also made Kristof and Olaf the same way.  

The only question she has left is how much of the ink will survive their first trip through the washer and dryer!

Picture
Picture
0 Comments

    Need a Search bar?
    One day I may upgrade my website-- but until then, use your web browser search bar. Type in my web address and what you're looking for, like this-- 
    www.theprovidenthomemaker.com  pumpkin --  and you should get results.


    Author

    I'm a disciple of Christ, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a family-defending, homemaking, and homeschooling mom of eight children, two of whom sometimes can't have milk or wheat. Growing up on a farm in a high mountain valley, my parents taught me to 'make do', work hard, smile, and help others.  I love cooking, learning, growing food and flowers, picking tomatoes, and making gingerbread houses --which CAN be made allergy-friendly-- with my children.  I hope you find something to help you on my site!

    Archives

    April 2024
    July 2023
    April 2022
    September 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010

    Categories

    All
    Alcohol
    Alternate Cooking
    Appearances
    Apple
    Apricots
    April Fools
    Aprons
    Bananas
    Beans
    Beef
    Beets
    Bench
    Beverages
    Bonnet
    Bread
    Breakfast
    Budget
    Budgeting
    Cake
    Candy
    Canning
    Carrots
    Cheese
    Chicken
    Children
    Chocolate
    Christmas
    Cleaning
    Coconut
    Comfrey
    Common Core
    Constitution
    Cookbook
    Cookies
    Cooking Oil
    Crafts
    Dairy Substitutions
    Dehydrating
    Dessert
    Dried Fruit
    Earth Oven
    Earthquake
    Easter
    Edible Weeds
    Eggs
    Emergency Prep
    Essential Oils
    Faith
    Family Home Evening
    Fertilizing
    Food Storage
    Fourth Of July
    Freezer
    Frosting
    Fudge
    Garden
    Gardening
    Gingerbread
    Gluten
    Gluten Free
    Gold
    Government
    Grains
    Gratitude
    Hat
    Herbs
    Home Remedies
    Home Repairs
    Homeschool
    Home Storage
    Honey
    Hope
    Inflation
    Leftovers
    Legumes
    Lemon
    Main Dishes
    Mixes
    Mothers
    Noah
    Non Artificial Colors
    Non-artificial Colors
    Nuts
    Oats
    Oil
    Orange
    Paint
    Peaches
    Pear
    Pie
    Pizza
    Plums
    Poem
    Popcorn
    Pork
    Potatoes
    Powdered Milk
    Prayer
    Preparedness
    Projects
    Prophecy
    Pruning
    Pumpkin
    Quick Bread
    Rhubarb
    Rice
    Salad
    Salt
    Sauces
    Self Reliance
    Self-reliance
    Sewing
    Shelf Life
    Shelves
    Sky
    Smoothie
    Snacks
    Soup
    Spices Or Seasonings
    Squash
    Strawberries
    Substitutions
    Sugar
    Summer Fun
    Three Month Supply
    Time
    Tomatoes
    Trees
    Truffles
    T-shirts
    Tuna
    Ultra Gel
    Valentine\'s Day
    Vegetables
    Water
    Watermelon
    Wheat
    Work
    Year Supply
    Zucchini

    RSS Feed

Web Hosting by iPage