SALTINE CRACKER TOFFEE (CHRISTMAS CRACK)

CHRISTMAS CRACK

INGREDIENTS:

 40 to 50 salted saltine crackers

1 cup butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 cups milk chocolate chips

1/2 cup M & M's

STEPS:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line cookie sheet with parchment paper and tops with saltines in rows.

                                    

 In a sauce pan, combine sugar and butter and bring to a boil.   Once mixture is at a boil, continue boiling for nearly 3 minutes.   Mixture should be a deep caramel color.   

Immediately pour over saltines and spread to cover crackers completely.   

Bake for  5 to 6 minutes.   The crackers will look all bubbly. 

Remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over top and let sit and all to melt.  Spread over top completely.    

At this time, sprinkle the M & M's on top and push into chocolate.  

Put the pan into the freezer for about 15 minutes and then break into pieces and finished product yields quite a bit.  keep refrigerated.  

Can be kept up to 2 weeks in refrigerator or freezer.  

Yum.   Enjoy.   

PUMPKIN OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

PUMPKIN OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients: 

1 cup Pumpkin puree
2 Eggs
2 cup Quick oats
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1 1/2 cup Brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Cloves, ground
1 cup Flour
1/4 tsp Nutmeg
1 tsp Salt
1 1/2 cup Semi sweet chocolate chips
1 tsp Vanilla
3/4 cup Butter

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Beat butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together in a bowl until creamy. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla extract; beat until smooth.

Mix flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl; stir into creamed butter until combined.

 Fold chocolate chips into batter. 

Drop 1 tablespoon batter for each cookie onto a baking sheet.

Bake in the preheated oven until the edges of each cookie are lightly browned, 12 to 14 minutes.

CHICKEN CHILI

CHICKEN CHILI

Ingredients:
2 pounds ground turkey
2 pounds boneless chicken breast (cooked and cubed)
2 - 15 ounce cans tomato sauce
1 small can tomato paste (rinse can with water 3 times)
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can Rotel
1 large onion, chopped
2 cans chili beans
2 packages Durkee Red Hot chili mix (or regular, your choice)
Garlic salt (to taste)
Chili powder - 2 tablespoons or more to taste
Hot sauce (to taste)

In a large pot, brown the chicken breasts and remove to cool and cut into bite sized cubes. 

 Brown the ground turkey and then drain..

 add the chicken cubes to this and continue to cook til the chicken is totally done. 

Add the tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, paste, chili diced tomatoes, chili beans, chili mix, chili powder, garlic salt, and hot sauce and mix well.

Add a couple of cans of water to it, stir, and heat on medium high heat with the lid off for about an hour.. Stirring occasionally. Turn heat down to medium low and cover and cook for another 1 to 2 hours.. Stir during this time.. Take lid off and let cook for another hour.. stirring.. and the chili will thicken..

Serve with chopped onions and shredded cheddar on top.. and you're in store for another wonderful taste treat.. (  A real Sawhook favorite)

BUFFALO CHICKEN MACARONI AND CHEESE

INGREDIENTS:

7 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for the dish 

  1# Any pasta (I used penne pasta)

  2 stalks celery, finely chopped

  1 small onion, finely chopped

  3 cups shredded rotisserie chicken (or 5 chicken breasts)

  2 heaping tablespoons all-purpose flour

  2 cloves garlic, minced

  1 cup hot sauce (preferably Frank's)

  2 teaspoons dry mustard

  2 1/2 cups half-and-half or a little more as needed

  8 ounces pepper jack cheese, shredded (about 2 cups)

  2/3 cup sour cream

  1 pound yellow sharp cheddar cheese, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 3 1/2 cups)

  1/2 cup cheddar

  1 cup panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)

  2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Directions

  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil; add the pasta and cook until al dente, about seven minutes. Drain.

   Meanwhile, melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and celery and cook until soft, about five minutes. Stir in the chicken and garlic and cook two minutes, then add 1/2 cup hot sauce and simmer until slightly thickened, about 1 more minute.

    Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the flour and mustard with a wooden spoon until smooth. Whisk in the half-and-half, then add the remaining 1/4 cup hot sauce and stir until thick, about two minutes. Whisk in the cheddar and pepper jack cheeses, then whisk in the sour cream until smooth.

   Spread half of the macaroni in the prepared baking dish,

 then top with the chicken mixture 

and the remaining macaroni. 

Pour the cheese sauce evenly on top.

  Put the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a medium microwave-safe bowl and microwave until melted. Stir in the panko,  cheese and parsley. Sprinkle over the macaroni

 and bake until bubbly, thirty to forty minutes. Let rest ten minutes before serving.

HERE I AM

Jesus says, "Please don't forget Me." I'm with you all the time and some days you don't even recognize the fact that I've got your back! When you go through tough times, I hear from you. 

When you're scared and  lonely, I know it! 

Hey, but in the good times AND in the happy times, in the just plain old nice and easy days.

 Don't forget to say THANK YOU. I didn't forget you that day on Calvary. Really, I didn't. You were on my mind and my heart all the way.

 So, Please don't forget Me. Love me with all of your heart, your soul and your mind. I will never never leave you and I will never no never forsake you.

 JUST A THOUGHT FOR TODAY FROM GEORGIA'S HEART 

In The Name Of The Lord

So what are you doing to prepare for this Holy 

Week? Or does it even matter it all. It 

matters to me. This week is what our 

faith is based on. 

Our Savior who came 

from heaven with a divine plan... knew 

what He was up against this week, yet 

He didn't run.. He didn't leave. He stayed.

 He waited. 

Today marks the day that He 

came into Jerusalem on a donkey ( the 

way that tradition says that kings would 

ride into a city). People waited for hours.

 Laid their clothing in the streets with 

palm branches to make way for the king

. They were looking for a king, a leader,a 

Messiah to deliver them. Would this be 

the man? Behold the man, the Lord 

Jesus. 

Think about it this week. Ponder and

 meditate on what He did for YOU. What

 He did for all mankind. The choice is left

with us. Whom will you choose? Blessed 

is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

 Hosanna to God in the highest!!!!!! 

Happy Palm Sunday.

From a song by Sandi Patti "In The Name Of The Lord."

Crowds have lined the narrow street

To see this man from Galilee

Just a carpenter some say, leading fools astray

Yet many kneel to give Him praise

And in His eyes, they glimpse the power

That sees the heart of all men

And He knows His Father's mind

He speaks His Father's words

For He comes in the name of the Lord

There is strength in the name of the Lord

There is power in the name of the Lord

There is hope in the name of the Lord

Blessed is He, who comes in the name of the Lord

Don't Give Up----Your Prayers Are Being Heard

Did you ever do this... ??? You pray and pray and pray and ask for mercy and grace. You pray for changed hearts. Anything ----any sign at all. And then it happens a little glimmer.. a little ray of hope, 

Just like Elijah when he prayed for rain in the midst of a 3 1/2 year drought.. and I Kings 18 reads "So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.” Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” 

So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’” Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain."

 Well, maybe there's a little cloud as small as a man's hand, but it's something, ya know?? Then the darkness, then the black clouds and wind.. and then the rain!! 

What you prayed for with all your heart, starts to barely break through.  Are you shocked and surprised and say.. oh it's just a little cloud almost in disbelief?? Or is this the beginning of God's answer little by little. 

It assures me to NOT give up To keep Asking, Seeking, and Knocking.  Matthew 7:7,8  reads, 7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

God's not done.. He doesn't quit.  He doesn't give up. Thank God!!      I need to keep praying and get in my War Room and pound the heavens even more.  Don't give up loved one. Watch the heavens for that little cloud.!!  And put on your whole armour.  It's a spirtual battle we're fighting.