Caramel Corn

Here's a little holiday treat! I love homemade caramel corn, so decided to make some for the neighbors this year...

2 cups brown sugar
2 sticks butter
1/2 cupe white syrup
1/2 tsp salt

Cook above ingredients 5 minutes on stove top (until melted and well combined).

Add:
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp burnt sugar flavoring (you may not be able to find this--I have to have my mom buy it for me. You can make it without or try and burn a little sugar...which we definitely have done when in a bind:)).
1/2 tsp butter flavoring (optional)

Put 8-9 quarts popped popcorn in 9x13 pan. Pour above mixture over. Put in oven at 250* for one hour--stirring every 15 minutes. Cool on wax paper.

Merry Christmas!

Chicken Squares

Sorry for lack of posts lately.  I haven't been cooking much because Josh is always gone at dinner time for basketball.  Today we made these.  My mom always made them when I was growing up.  The are really good and VERY easy.  Josh and I whipped them up today, while Rudy sat in the Bumbo, in about 5 minutes.  10 minutes later we were eating! My mom always made them with wild rice, but just about any side will go well with it! 

Ingredients:

1 small can of canned chicken

Half a block of cream cheese

1 tube of crescent rolls

Butter

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375.  Drain chicken.  Soften cream cheese (microwave for about 45 sec).  Mix cream cheese and chicken together so that chicken is well shredded.  Roll crescent rolls out onto cookie sheet.  There should be four squares (each square consisting of two crescent rolls.... see pictures.)  Spoon 1/4 of cream cheese chicken mixture onto each square.  Place a little bit of butter on top.  Pull corners of crescent rolls up and pinch the top.  Bake for about 10 minutes or until gold brown.  Voila.