Caramel chex mix snack

You need to try this delicious caramel covered Chex mix. Not only is it a party in your mouth, but it is also very simple and easy to make. No need for Karo syrup! Just…

1 box Chex cereal
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup honey
1 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
 parchment paper
M&Ms(optional)

First lay parchment paper on your cookie sheet trays . mine took 3. place Chex cereal in a bowl that has enough room to stir mix in. Set oven to 200*. In a sauce pan on medium heat melt the butter then add the honey and brown sugar. stirring till boiling, let simmer for 5 minutes. Stirring the whole time. Remove from heat and add vanilla and baking soda( it will double in size and look like foam. Don't worry you are doing it right. Great time to let kids watch you do this part kind off cool) Poor over Chex cereal and toss well until completely mixed. Divide into cookie sheets and spread them evenly. bake in oven for an hour. tossing every 20 minutes. when done let cool then enjoy. I like to mix in M&M's into ours at the end.

Santa Christmas cookies in a jar Teacher gifts

                            

What you will need for the tags:

• printer
• card stock
• scissors
• glue dots or tape
• Print this FREE DIY Printable PDF file {Santa’s Cookies in a Jar Tags} on card stock and cut out.

What you will need for the jar:

• 1 quart Mason Jar
• 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, spooned into measuring cup & leveled
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 3/4 cup M&Ms
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/4 – 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (depends on if you have room)

Instructions:

1. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
2. Layer all the ingredients in a 1 quart mason jar in the order listed.
3. After each ingredient pound on table to make each layer settle to make room in jar. 
4. Add labels. (optional: add fabric)

Feeling like Christmas

Hard to believe its almost time for Christmas break. I have so many crafts for the kids to do before Christmas. Part of it is doing some cleaning of there rooms so they can have room for anything they get for Christmas. Such as going through and donating some of there toys and such.  Some of the crafts is making ornaments out of clay. Ornaments out of fishing supplies. we will be doing some baking and making of rice crispy treats. in the next few days the kids need to make there teachers there Christmas gifts.We also have a list of movies we like to watch as well, such as A Christmas Story, Home Alone 1 & 2, The Grinch, Prancer, and Rudolph.

one of my favorites is The FamilyStone and many more you can find on Hallmark Channel all month.

Sock Snowmen

Today my daughter and I made snowmen from extra socks. We used white socks extra baby socks. You know the ones that lose there partners... needle eye pins, buttons, ribbon, string and rice to fill the socks.and a hot glue gun.
Fill each sock with rice and tye off at the too with string.separate two different areas fir the snowman head and body by tying the string around and making a knot. Tye a ribbon around the neck for a scarf. Add the sick to the top making a hat. Use black push needles for eyes and orange for a nose. Got glue buttons on tummy area. There you go thou have a snow man.

Christmas DIY stocking holder and card holder

I made a Christmas stocking holder and a Christmas card holder. My husband had some ply wood cut to the size I already needed so I painted the wood. and added two on each thumb tac hangers i found at the store to hang on them on the wall. On the stocking one I added some command strip hanging hooks for the stockings to hang from. On the Marry Mail one I used a hot glue gun to add some ribbon to the back of the board. I fond some mini clothes pins (in the baby shower section) to hold the cards to the ribbon. You could use paper clips would work here also.

My Chicken Cordon Blue

My Chicken Cordon Blue  

2-4 chicken breasts

Deli ham or turkey or both sliced thin

Sliced cheese provolone

1 cup mayo

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Panco bread crumbs

Cooking spray

Pre-heat oven to 350*. Spray pan with cooking spray. Pound chicken breast between plastic wrap till it is nice and thin.  On one end of chicken place a piece of cheese and meat on top of each other, then roll the chicken and place a tooth pic in it to help it stay in place. Mix together the Parmesan cheese and mayo together and then spoon it onto the top of the chicken, then sprinkle some panco bread crumbs on top. Spray again with cooking spray. Bake for 35 minutes. Remove tooth pic and enjoy.

Sometimes I satee spinach and put that in the middle. Be creative to your taste buds.

busy mom life

Its funny when you become a mother especial y when you have more than one child how caught up in everyday life one becomes. I tend to forget to call my good friends. I think of them often and by the time I have time to call something come up or even I tend to forget until a time that im busy and the cycle starts over. I need to take time to make sure to make contact with family and friends a lot more.  I get so caught up with the daily grind especially during the school year.

Gewy chocolate chip cookies

 

gewy Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened 1 cup white sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons hot water 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
3. Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.

Pumpkin pie crumb cake

I got my new mixer today, so of course I had to make something! I made a Better than pumpkin pie cake...
its along the lines of a pumpkin pie crumb cake.

Ingredients
1 (29) oz can of puree pumpkin
4 eggs
1 (12) oz can evaporated milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 cup butter

Mix the pumpkin,  eggs, evaporated milk, sugar, and spices. Place in baking dish. Pore cake mix over top evenly spread out. Drizzle melted butter all over top.

 

Bake at 350* for 1 hr and then let cool. Enjoy!!

Chili tater tot casserole

We have left over chili and cheese sauce from chili pigs in a blanket night. So tonight im making the leftovers into a casserole.

Chili tater tot casserole

·       Tater tots

·        * Chili (homemade or canned) 

  * Cheese sauce

  *Shredded cheese

·        * Toppings  tomatoes, sour cream, shredded cheese, etc

I bake the tater tots for 20-25 min. at 400* before putting it together to help them get crisp.I spray the top with Pam spray to help it crisp.  In a cake pan, place chili on the bottom layer. Layer on top the cheese sauce and then the top layer tatter tots. Sprinkle with cheese  . Let bake at 400* for 15-20 min. and dish up with toppings.