Scotcheroos

I made these last night for some friends who came over for games. They turned out AWFUL, so I wanted to post a couple warnings (mainly for myself to remember) that will help you with this recipe. Normally these are delicious. The recipe comes from allrecipes.com.

• 1 cup Karo® Light Corn Syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 6 cups crispy rice cereal
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup butterscotch chips

1. Cook corn syrup and sugar together in a large pan over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Bring mixture to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter; mix well. Add cereal; stir until evenly coated.
2. Pour into greased 13x9-inch pan and pat into place.
3. Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips together in saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Spread over cereal.
4. Cool at least 45 minutes, or until firm. Cut into bars.

Here are my notes of warning:

#1) As soon as the sugar mixture boils, REMOVE FROM HEAT. Don't let it cook a single minute--that will make your scotcheroos super hard! You may even break your tooth!

#2) Don't use expired butterscotch chips. They are gross!!! (I didn't notice until it was too late.)

#3) Use high quality chocolate chips! Nothing cheap! Cheap is nasty!

#4) Grease your pan with butter, not PAM!

#5) Use 1 pack of chocolate chips and 1 pack of butterscotch chips. You won't regret it!

Coconut Chicken Curry

I made this for dinner Monday night. It was delicious. I made a few changes.

First, I didn't brown the chicken before hand. That takes all the easy out of crock-pot cookin'. I feel just fine about plopping it in the crock-pot frozen.

Second, I followed the user reviews and added more salt and more curry. Two heaping teaspoons of curry. I didn't measure the salt precisely, but I'm guessing there were at least two teaspoons in there. Instead of peas, I used carrots. Fresh baby carrots that I put in at the beginning. They were delicious. And I had no flaked coconut, so I just left that out.

I served the dish over rice, and had strawberry-spinach salad on the side.

This meal was a winner--easy, tasty, and different.

Cinnamon Muffins (cupcakes)

I made these this morning. They are delightful. More like a cupcake than a muffin I think :). I used my new mini muffin pan I got for Christmas (from Kathy!) and baked them for 11 minutes. Also, I didn't have fresh nutmeg, but I bet that would've been delicious! And I made my own "buttermilk" with lemon juice and milk.

Three bites of scrumptiousness!