Month: May 2017

Banana Icebox Pie

I’m not sure which dessert is Dad’s favorite, Mom’s cheesecake, or Pinkie Sue’s Banana Icebox Pie.

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 Banana Icebox Pie
This is a no-bake cream pie made with pudding, cream cheese, and bananas.
Course Dessert
Servings
pie
Ingredients
Course Dessert
Servings
pie
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, thoroughly mix the cream cheese, powder sugar, and cool whip together until you get a smooth consistency.
  2. Spread the mixture over the graham cracker pie crust. Start with a small-ish dollop of the mix in the center and work it out from there to keep from accidentally tearing up the crust.
  3. Peel and slice bananas and spread the slices over the mixture in the pie crust.
  4. In a separate large bowl, mix both packages of french pudding with the milk. Pour the pudding over the banana layer of the pie.
  5. Spread a layer of cool whip on top of the pudding layer of the pie. If you'd like, sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the top. Cover and place in the freezer until it sets.
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Love and Banana Pie

I woke up this morning and realized I didn’t have anything for the neighborhood block party this afternoon.  Typically, when I make something for a pot luck, I make Jalapeno Cheese, but hardly anyone touched it at the last block party we had.  So this time around I thought I’d try making Pinky Sue’s (my great-grandmother) Banana Icebox Pie.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have everything I needed for the pie (or for breakfast for that matter), so I was going to need to take a trip to the store.

On Sunday’s, I try not to drive if I can help it.  Its not a hard-and-fast rule with me and its not based on any particular belief in not working on the sabbath.  I think its just a nice way to slow things down every now and then.  Plus, it gives me the opportunity to walk through the neighborhood, which I don’t do near enough as it is.

So, since I’m walking, I grabbed my phone and my headphones and decided to listen to something on my trip.  Being a Sunday morning, its only fitting to listen to a sermon from one of my favorite preachers, Dr. J. Vernon McGee.  Even almost thirty years since his passing, his sermons (and his 5-year Bible study program) are still broadcast around the world on both radio and over the internet.  Today’s sermon was one he gave about the time Jesus was asked “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”.  I won’t go into detail on the sermon, but you can certainly listen to it here:

Dr. J. Vernon McGee – The Greatest Commandment

I think my favorite part of this sermon is this quote:

“Faith looks to the past.  Hope looks the the future.  But Love is for the present and its for eternity.  May I say the thing that is going to characterize Heaven is going to be Love.”

In our current times where all we ever see in our culture is hate, fear, horror and shame, its good to hear about love.  True love our God has for us, and love we need to share with each other.