Cheerio Candy Recipe

    Cheerio candy is a great and easy candy to make for Christmas time or anytime.  It is a family favorite. 

 

 

Cheerio Candy

                            2 pkgs. semi-sweet chocolate chips 

1 c. creamy peanut butter

4 c. Cheerio cereal

2 c. mini marshmallows

     In a large bowl, pour in the cereal and marshmallows.

Measure up the peanut butter and set aside.

Melt the chocolate chips in a clean, DRY bowl in the microwave in 30 second intervals.  Stir every 30 seconds until they are completely melted.  As soon as they are ready, immediately stir in the peanut butter.  When blended together, pour over the cereal mixture and stir well.  Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper and let set.

Another good candy recipe I have shared are my Old Fashioned Potato Candy, Root Beer Float Fudge,
and Homemade Reeses!

 

 

 

 

 

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Animals in the Fall

   I just went out visiting the animals on and around our farm today and wanted to share with you what I saw.

This is our nanny Boer goat.  

Minnie and Jasper (our resident donkeys) coming to greet me.  Minnie is Jasper's momma.

Minnie.

Minnie doesn't understand personal space.  ;-)

Mozart our tufted duck.  

Mozart (I'm sure you see why he has that name).  

Our big Rhode Island Red rooster. 

Our Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster.

This is our Silver laced Phoenix and his mates that are golden laced Phoenix breed.

Sheera, our resident guard dog. 

   Thank you for letting us share our life on the farm and a few of the animals that live here with us.

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Growing (Regrowing) Green Onions (Chives)

   I am sure a lot of you have heard about growing or regrowing green onions.  I have been doing this for about a year and will never buy them again.  To begin with, grow some green onions in your garden or buy a small bunch from your grocery store.  Use the green part as you normally would but when you are done, just put the white part into a small container with a little bit of water and place it on your windowsill.

The part you place in the water. 

The green onions after I cut them. 

Now just wait for the greens to grow out again and then cut off the greens and repeat.  I cut a good deal off every 3-4 days.  I just use scissors to do it  and then I place the chives into my dehydrator and dry them out for future use.

Here they are just a few days later.  

Cutting them up is quick and easy with scissors.

In the dehydrator about to be dried.

 They go great on baked potatoes or you can throw them into a soup or casserole. Just one more way to save money.

I store in a baggie for future use. 

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Crock Pot Swiss Steak Recipe

   I made Swiss Steak in the crock pot this evening and had many requests to share the recipe so here goes....

Crock-Pot Swiss Steak

 

2 lb. round steak

1/2 c. flour

30 oz. tomatoes 

15 oz. tomato sauce

15 oz can carrots

1 sm. can tomato paste

2 T. brown sugar

1 T. Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp. parsley flakes

1 tsp. oregano

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. onion powder

1/2 tsp. paprika

1/4 tsp. pepper

1/4 tsp. garlic powder

                                                                                                                                                                                

Some of the ingredients....

   Mix the flour, salt and pepper together in a small bowl.  Dredge the steaks through the flour mixture and lightly brown the sides in a skillet with a bit of oil.  Once lightly browned, put the steaks into the crock pot.  In a large bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients together.  Do NOT drain the tomatoes.  Once the ingredients are mixed well, pour onto the steaks.  Cook on high for 6 hours or on low for 10 hours.  These turn out super tender and flavorful.  As you can tell by the photo below, we love to serve this over mashed potatoes!

                                                 

 

If you like cooking meals in the crock pot, check these out too:  Complete Chicken Dinner in the Crock Pot and  Turkey Breast Cooked in the Crock Pot. 

 

 

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Rich Decadent Chocolate and Caramel Brownies

   If you are looking for a moist, delicious brownie that is easy to make, look no further.  This is what you've been looking for.  These are super rich so you probably won't be able to eat more than one at a time! 

 

 

Super Rich Decadent Chocolate and Caramel Brownies

 

 2 c. sugar

2 c. mini marshmallows

1 1/3 c. flour

1 c. shortening

1 c. caramel 

1 c. cocoa

4 eggs

2 T. milk

2 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

                                                                                                                   

      Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 9 x 13 cake pan with cooking spray or oil the pan.   I know what you may be thinking:  1.) there should be more flour because there is more sugar than flour (trust me, this works) and 2.) no butter, really?  Yep, really no butter.

 

      Mix together all ingredients but the marshmallows and caramel.  Stir well and then gently stir in the marshmallows.

  Pour the thick batter into the cake pan and bake for 22 minutes.  Remove and while it is still hot, drizzle the caramel onto the top of the brownies like so...

   Now enjoy!

 

   The picture on the top of the page is one where I baked the brownies in a smaller pan for nice and thick brownies or you can do it in a full size cake pan and get thinner brownies, as shown below.  Both are delicious and I trade off on the size of the pan I cook them in.  

 

I used this brownie recipe in another one of my recipes:  "Death by Chocolate Cake". 

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Our Christmas Tree

    One of the many blessings of living in the country is being able to go out onto the property where you live and cutting down a tree for Christmas.  So, we set out walking around for a half hour trying to find the "perfect" tree.  Now, before we go much further, let me state, our idea of perfect and the world's idea of a perfect tree are NOT the same.  I'm more like the Charlie Brown gang on their choice of a tree for Christmas.  We have some really gorgeous trees out here but they are really beautiful and I want to enjoy them for years and not just for a few weeks.  We look for trees that have potential but are small and usually misshaped in some areas.  Our tree we chose this year had some dead branches on the bottom and one side was super flat but after each one of us looked it over, we knew it was the tree for us this year.

Here it is:

    It doesn't look so bad but I did get the angle just right on the tree so you miss the flat back but I say "who cares!" that part is facing the wall and no one will see it and I checked with the wall and it said it was fine.  ;-) 

And here is proof that we have super, beautiful trees to choose from:  

  

Hubby cutting it down.

Dragging it home.

Deer tracks just 10 feet from where we found the tree.

It looks good in the house!

Lit up!

  Okay, so why are you not seeing the tree fully decorated?  Well, there is a perfectly good reason why and I'll tell ya!  It is a common problem when you have a tiny, non-perfect tree.  The poor thing was so flimsy that when we just put on the garland it began to sag and droop.  Once we put on a few ornaments there are big gaps and droopy limbs, etc.  Do we mind.  Nah!  It's our family 2013 Christmas tree and we love it! :-D
    Funny thing, the trunk was so small we couldn't get the tree stand to support it so we filled the stand up with Chicken scratch and it worked beautiful.  Yes, we truly are COUNTRIFIED HICKS!!!!

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Christmas Crafts

   Our family has been doing Christmas crafts the past 2 weeks and we've really had a lot of fun and shared lots of laugh and made some great memories and items to decorate our home with.  We wanted to share some of what we have made with all of you! 

     To make the ornament above, we just took a scratched up DVD (or CD) and paint over it and then use glitter paint or glue to decorate it.  Tie a string to it and hang it on your tree!

     The ornament lights were so much fun to make.  I just used a black sharpie to draw the light strand and then we stuck our index finger into some paint and used the fingerprint to make the colored lights.

    I loved the Mistle "toes" because I like keeping records of how my children grow and comparing this year's prints to previous years.  Ronny's is the top one and Bub's is the bottom one.

    This one is Ronny's feet and we used his foot prints to make Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  I think it turned out so cute.  Bub felt he was too old for this one.  ;-)

    To make the "textured" paint, I cheat.  I just mixed an equal amount of white school glue with an equal amount of cheap shaving cream and then add just a bit of paint (what ever color you desire).  You can see how the blue is "puffed" out.  It puffs out and is soft and squishy.  Nice and easy effect for your pictures without having to spend much money.

   This is just a drawing my hubby did of a winter scene.  I was "uber" surprised because I didn't even know he could draw!

    And finally we just painted some wreaths.

    Thanks for allowing us to share our crafts with you all!

       If you like these crafts, I have a few more you might like:  Handprint Fall Art and Cool 3D hand art.

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