Diane's Puppy Chow

I remember my mom and I visiting my Aunt Diane and family one summer and the 3 of us sitting around her living room when she asked us if we had ever had puppy chow.  I was like "maybe as a kid" thinking of how little kids sometimes eat pet food.  Little did I know she was talking about a tasty treat. She of course made up a batch the next night. I also remember the 3 of us couldn't stop eating this yummy concoction! 

This is my first time making the dish and while it is pretty simple it was a little messy, there was a light dusting of powdered sugar everywhere in the kitchen! 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 cup peanut butter

1 (12 oz) package of chocolate chips

1 large box of rice Chex or Crispix cereal

3 cups of powder sugar

Over low heat melt butter and chocolate chips together

add in peanut butter and continue stirring until melted

Mixture should be smooth

In the biggest bowl you have pour in box of cereal

Pour melted mixture over cereal

Carefully stir/fold cereal and chocolate together, be careful not to crush cereal

In paper bag, pour half of powdered sugar in bottom

Pour in cereal and top with remainder of powdered sugar

Fold down bag and shake to coat cereal 

Keep checking to make sure everything is coated and that you don't have big cereal clumps

Enjoy!

Mom and Aunt Diane chillin'

Grandma's Goulash

This dish might be my favorite childhood dinner, when grandma made this it was a good night!

Grandma would make a big pot of these and all 5 of us would dish up bowls full, I don't remember there ever really being that much leftover everyone loved it so much. 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lb hamburger

salt and pepper to taste

1 med onion 

32 oz tomato juice

elbow pasta

Grandma's recipe card, I love that she writes different ingredients all on the same card and spells Goulash Goolish.

Chop onion

Slowly fry together hamburger, onion, salt and pepper

Once meat is browned add tomato juice and cook a couple of minutes, meanwhile cook pasta according to package

Mix cooked and drained pasta together with hamburger and tomato juice. You can add a little more tomato juice if it is to dry.

add a little sugar to cut the acid of the tomato juice.

Enjoy!

Grandma's Snickerdoodles

 Ingredients:

1 cup butter or shortening

1 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp sugar

2 eggs

2 3/4 cup flour

2 tsp cream of tarter

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 Tbsp cinnamon

Cream butter and sugar (save 2 Tbsps) together, add in eggs

Sift in flour, cream of tarter, baking soda and salt

Mix 2 Tbsp sugar and 2 Tbsp cinnamon

Roll dough in to small balls, roll balls in cinnamon/sugar mixture

Place on parchment paper lined baking sheet 2 inches apart, do not flatten cookies

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes, until lightly browned but still soft.

Cookies will flatten out as they bake

Enjoy!