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Chocolate Covered Party Mix

| Allison

Today I suddenly had the urge to make up a party mix recipe, so I did! My family liked it, and I hope you will too. I present… my very own Chocolate Covered Party Mix!

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Yield: About 2 quarts

Party Mix:

  • 4 cups of Cheerios
  • 3 cups of Honeycomb cereal
  • 1 cup of roasted peanuts
  • 1/4 cup of M&Ms (or a similar chocolate candy. I used Reese’s Pieces.)

Chocolate Sauce

  • 3/4 cup of chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup of butter
  • 1/4 cup of coconut (optional)
  • a pinch of salt (optional if your roasted peanuts are salted already)

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Combine the Party Mix ingredients in a large bowl. Combine the Chocolate Sauce ingredients (except for the coconut which you will add later) in a small pan. Stir the mixture over medium heat until it is smooth and melted, then mix in coconut. Pour the Chocolate Sauce over the Party Mix and mix thoroughly until everything is coated. Enjoy! Store the leftovers (if you have any 😀 ) in a Ziploc bag.

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I hope you enjoy this yummy snack!

***Allison***

A Super Simple Salad: Iceberg Lettuce Wedges

| Allison

Once when we went to a restaurant on a vacation, some of my family ordered lettuce wedges as appetizers, and they were SO GOOD! Those had blue cheese dressing and bacon on, I think. The other day I thought, “Why couldn’t we make those ourselves?” So I did! And they were yummy! They were also really simple because they only took three ingredients. So… here’s the “recipe,” although it’s so simple it can hardly be called a recipe.

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Ingredients:

1 iceberg lettuce head

crumbled, cooked bacon

blue cheese dressing (Note: Caesar dressing is also delicious if you don’t like blue cheese – I prefer Caesar to blue cheese myself. And my little sister wanted Ranch dressing on hers. 😀 )

  1. Peel off the first couple of outer lettuce leaves, and slice the iceberg lettuce into six equal wedges. (I actually made seven wedges since we have seven people in our family.) -Allison (room, science museum) 041 (1280x960)
  2. Place each wedge on a separate plate, and drizzle generously with dressing. Sprinkle crumbled bacon on top. And EAT!

Don’t they look delicious?

Let me tell you the story of the bacon bits. We got them in our stockings from our grandparents, because my cousin REALLY loves bacon, and she wanted bacon bits for Christmas. So my grandparents made us all some. XD It was a good stocking stuffer to me! 😀 XD

***Allison***

P. S. No more blog snow… 😥 😥