Apples and Peanut Butter!

So I have to give my friend Jill credit for this one. I was working on a project after school with her and her son came in eating an apple just like the one above. I asked her what she had done, and she said she had just cored the apple and filled it with Peanut Butter. Why didn't I think of that? The next day I made them for my girl's lunch - What a hit!!!!

Praline Chex Mix - Always a Touchdown!

The host for a Super Bowl game needs lots of snacks for the guests.
I think you will find this treat special and there is still time to order the
Praline Mix from Savannah Cinnamon Company. Their web site is:
www.savannahcinnamon.com. Check them out HERE!

A small bottle of Praline Mix will make three batches of Savannah
Squares Praline Crunch. My mother knows. She received the Praline
Mix from a couple my dad plays golf with. She immediately ran to the
grocery store for the ingredients and made one recipe after another.
Along with the bottle, she also received a generous sample of Savannah
Squares Praline Crunch which they quickly devoured – she knew a trip
to the grocery store was imperative.

So, order the mix and have pecans, Chex cereal, butter, brown sugar and baking soda ready for the arrival of the Praline Mix. Thank you Fran Hess – you made a golfer and his wife’s day.




Savannah Squares Praline Crunch
Stir together 6 cups Chex cereal and 2 cups pecan halves in
A 13x9 pan. Melt ¼ cup butter and ½ cup brown sugar and
½ cup of Praline Mix. Bring to a boil. Gently cook for 2 minutes,
Stir in ½ tsp baking soda and stir until foamy. Pour over mixture
and stir to coat. Bake at 250 for 1 hour. Stir once during baking.

The Jello bowl

My cupboards are filled with bowls. In fact, you might say I have a bowl and dish obsession. I love perusing flea markets and antique stores for those beautiful pieces you just can't find in department stores. I must have 30 bowls in my cabinet right now - but this one is our Jello bowl. My kids LOVE jello - almost as much as I love dishes. When it is time to make a new batch - it has to be in the Jello bowl. Now mind you, I have never told them it has to be in this bowl - they just expect that their favorite snack will inevitably be made in the blue flowered dish. I never really thought about it until the other day when my daughter Logan went to make it and told me she couldn't because she couldn't find the bowl. Excuse me? The other 29 bowls won't do? Perhaps it is me that doesn't understand. Maybe those three blue flowers on the front of the dish are hieroglyphics for Jello. Silly Me.
Then I got to thinking. Maybe I have instilled the "One pot for every dish" rule unknowingly. It's me who makes their favorite Mac and Cheese in the same pot every time. It's me who serves them their orange juice in the same Ikea cup every morning and it is me who 'nukes' their green beans in the same container time after time. It makes me wonder- what else is she watching me do? Just a little food-for-thought or should I say bowl-for-jello moment! Man I love those girls.



Logan and Jensen's favorite Jello recipe
1 pakage any flavor Jello
1 cup boiling water
1 cup apple sauce

Mix jello and boiling water until jello is dissolved. Add 1 cup any flavored apple sauce and chill. Enjoy!

"Coff" Pop

Like a "cough drop" - this frozen treat will soothe your needs on a summer day. I cannot trace when my addiction to coffee started but I am still on friendly terms with my "drug" dealer - my mother. Some of our favorite alone time has been spent sipping iced coffees and getting energized in preparation for a full day of shopping. This recipe originated when my "dealer" was helping me get my afternoon fix. My sweet mother had spied a full pot of left over coffee and knew that "black gold" shouldn't go to waste. She quickly made my coffee the way I love it - lot's of cream and sugar- and poured it into these neat popsicle holders. It was a good thing we were at her house - because my freezer is more like a complex jigsaw puzzle and there is no way that popsicle contraption would have fit!
I will be making more of these at my home, but will be using a small plastic Dixie cup with cling wrap over the top to hold the popsicle stick in place. I might have just enough room in my freezer for a few of them.

My kids LOVED these as well - I guess I've followed in my mothers footsteps! The "Business" lives on!