Key Lime Pie

This is my Nana's Recipe for Key Lime Pie and it is so yummy and so easy to make.

1 graham cracker pie crust (vanilla wafer pie crust works really well too!)
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup key lime juice (regular lime juice is fine too, whatever fresh limes you can find, taste best)
4 egg yolks
Green food coloring if you want it to be green and not yellow.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Mix sweetened condensed milk and lime juice well.
Add egg yolks and mix well. Then add food coloring if desired.

Pour mix into pie crust and bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes until filling s set. Let cool in the refrigerator for at least three hours.

Great served with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Cottage Cheesecake

This light cheesecake has a fraction of the calories but all the flavor of a cheesecake made from cream cheese. If you're really sensitive to textures, then you might think it a teensy bit grainy, but it wasn't enough to bother me one bit. I even ate it for breakfast this morning! :) I used 2% cottage cheese, but I read that there was no difference between that and 1% (I woulda used it but couldn't find it).

Graham cracker pie crust
2 cups cottage cheese
2 eggs
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup white sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt

Blend cottage cheese until smooth. For a denser cake, allow cheese to drain in cheesecloth or coffee filter for a couple hours, then continue.
In a blender, combine cottage cheese, milk, eggs, flour, lemon juice, vanilla, sugar and salt. Blend until smooth. Pour into prepared crust.
Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until filling is firm. Allow to cool completely.

Yogurt Chocolate Chip Cookies

Delightful cookies! They use no eggs and about half the butter that my classic cookie recipe has--and they are just as delicious. Yum yum yum! I also use about half the amount of chocolate chips that this recipe calls for, but some people would think them scarce that way.

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
In a medium bowl, cream together the brown sugar, white sugar, and butter until light and fluffy. Stir in yogurt and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until incorporated, then mix in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded tablespoons 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges begin to brown. Cool for a minute on the cookie sheets before removing to wire racks to cool completely.