25 Days of Christmas: Day 22

Tonight, I made two of my favorite Christmas treats!! It's just not Christmas until we have these snacks to munch on!  If you followed my 25 Days of Christmas posts last year, then you have seen these before...just some different pictures this year :)  If this is your first time seeing these yummy treats, I hope you'll try the recipes!

Mom's Chex Mix and these amazing M&M pretzel wheels are the ultimate Christmas snacks to have!  If you click on the names of each snack in the previous sentence, it will take you to last year's post with the recipe and instructions :)

Both of these treats I love to sit down and eat with a nice cold glass of milk.  In fact, I think that's just what the doctor ordered for tonight!!

If you try these recipes, I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!!!

"Momma, why aren't you dropping me any pretzels??"

"Will you drop me any on this side??"

 

"Momma, I think they're done baking! Time to eat, right?"

 

"Will I at least get some chex mix, Momma??"

 

Finished snacks..cooling to be ready to eat!

Food For Friday: Fall Chex Mix

When it comes to food, especially food I find on Pinterest, I'm usually better at what I find to bake, than the things I find to cook.  Yes, there's a big difference. haha. When I bake things,  there's a much higher percentage that it will actually turn out right!

As soon as I saw this recipe on Pinterest, I knew I was going to try it!  Now, the recipe really calls it Halloween Chex Mix, but I changed the recipe just a little bit, and it turned out looking more "Fall" than "Halloween." haha.  You'll see!

Food For Friday: Cherry Coke Chicken

When I was home during the summer, I was always looking for new crock pot recipes to try.  They're easy to prepare and good to eat.

I found this barbeque chicken was a great discovery, from Pinterest of course.  At first, I was very hesitant about it, but then I remembered I've had something similar to it!

My absolute FAVORITE meal from Cinebistro is their ribs in a Cherry Coke BBQ sauce.  This chicken didn't taste the same {because how awesome would that have been??}, but it was definitely worth trying, and I'll for sure make it again sometime!

Here's the recipe that I found online, but I ended up halving it for the two of us.  However, I did add in more than half a can of Cherry Coke, because I really wanted it to be flavorful, haha.

Food For Friday: Reese Cup Pie

Back in July, Matt and I had two of our friends from Longwood, Ashley & Zack, over for dinner.  Matt was going to be grilling steaks & veggies so I wanted to make dessert!

Naturally, I've come across MANY desserts on Pinterest, but I wanted something that would be relatively easy, taste good, and most everyone would like it! And, everyone did.....well, as far as I know! haha.

For me, I also needed something with easy directions.  This is coming from someone who messed up boxed macaroni and cheese.  Twice.  Luckily, the directions were dummy proof, and I successfully made a good, edible dessert!  {Notice, that I seem to always say that I made something "edible." haha.  I can always make things, but they may not always be edible or good! haha}

Even though it's a frozen dessert and might seem more summery, I

Food For Friday: Chicken Fajitas!

Even though Matt is the one who does most of the cooking
around here, doesn't mean I haven't liked to try.  I'm usually not too great at it, haha.  But Matt enjoys it and likes to make new things, so I've told him I'll eat whatever.

Over the summer, though, since I was home everyday, I had some chances to try to make dinner....and it was mostly in the crock pot, because you usually just can't go wrong when cooking in a crock pot.  Which I've learned is true!

Every time I made something, though, I was always worried that the meat wasn't really cooking or it would just come out tasting gross!  But, I've proved myself wrong and actually made a few good things!

Today, here's the recipe for the first crock pot recipe I tried, Chicken Fajitas!

Final Halloween pictures.

This was supposed to be yesterday's post, but time got away from me and it completely slipped my mind!
 
Monday, I shared pictures of my pumpkin when it was all nice and complete looking.  These pictures will include the process of carving my pumpkin as well as some more.  I mentioned last week that I spent hours setting up for Halloween, so here are some of the final products from decorating, as well!  (And some other fun pics I threw in!)

So, here's that whole pumpkin carving process.....