Chocolate-banana-pecan Cream Pie

Future worry is overwhelming. There’s a reason. We don't have grace today for tomorrow. One of Satan's simplest tricks and most effective devices is to draw our attention to things we can do nothing about. There’s nothing worse than a crisis that can’t be fixed. If our hours are spent with thoughts of tomorrow’s problems, which are not accessible today and which we know we cannot touch with today’s resources, we are doomed to worry. And worry wears us out… [Yet] our calling is today. It’s not that we don’t think of tomorrow, but it must consistently be filed under “future grace.” The tide of confidence in God's sufficiency must wash out worry. In fact, it’s a command. “Do not be anxious for tomorrow.” To go there is to disobey a directive from the One who holds every moment in His hand.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Dairy		Desserts, Fruits	1	9" pie

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Butter or margarine, softened
1		3 oz. pkge. cream cheese
		softened
1 1/2	c	Powdered sugar
1/4	c	Whipping cream
1/2	t	Vanilla extract
3		Bananas, sliced
1		6 oz. can pineapple juice
1		Baked 9 inch pastry shell or
		1 frozen 9 inch deep-dish
		pastry shell
1/2	c	Chopped pecans, toasted
2		1 oz. semisweet chocolate
		squares
1/2	c	Whipping cream, whipped

INSTRUCTIONS

Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer
until creamy; gradually add powdered sugar alternately with 1/4 cup
whipping cream, beginning and ending with powdered sugar and beating
until blended after each addition.  Stir in vanilla extract, and set
aside.  Toss together banana slices and pineapple juice; drain.  Pat
slices  dry with paper towels.  Spoon half of filling into pastry
shell.  Arrange banana slices over  filling.  Top with remaining
filling, and sprinkle with pecans.  Melt semisweet chocolate in a heavy
saucepan over low heat.  Spoon  into a small heavy-duty zip-top plastic
bag.  Snip a tiny hole in 1  corner of bag; drizzle over pecans and
filling.  Dollop with whipped  cream. Yield: 1 9 inch pie.  Typed in
MMFormat by  cjhartlin@email.msn.com Source: Southern Living Summertime
1999.  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by cjhartlin@email.msn.com on Jul
9, 1999

A Message from our Provider:

“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. #Harry Ironside”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 4697 Calories From Fat: 2045 Total Fat: 237.6g Cholesterol: 203.5mg Sodium: 861.5mg Potassium: 2939.3mg Carbohydrates: 674.5g Fiber: 39.9g Sugar: 427.7g Protein: 37.5g