HAPPY 2nd BLOGiversary to ME! {a little late}

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494 RECIPES AND COUNTING... and it's time to FINALLY celebrate my 2nd BLOGiversary, I wish I had a cupcake made to share with all of you. I just finished updating my Recipe Index, something I am very proud of, since I have to hand type in all the recipes, I use it every day looking up old recipes. I hope you take a minute to check it out, RECIPE INDEX.

I can't believe I missed my own BLOGiversary, yep, I did! It was 2 weeks ago, September 7th. For those that follow know I have been a little preoccupied, my twin daughters went to college. Yes, college everyone does it, but they also moved away 1837 miles to St. Charles, Missouri. It's bitter sweet, but it makes it so much easier that they are having the TIME OF THEIR LIFE, a few bumps here and there (dead car battery, flooded car in first rain storm, a hurricane warning and a chipped tooth, and landed two jobs, all in the first 3 weeks and they are still smiling), but all in all it's been by far the best experience ever. Of course, I miss them like crazy! (Yep, I will be hopping on a plane Tuesday to go visit), for their 19th Birthday and to see them dance at the Cardinals Baseball game. SUPER DUPER COOL! And, my hotel room comes complete with a full kitchen. I've already made my 5-day menu plan, they want REAL FOOD!

 Back to my BLOGiversary, I am into my second year now blogging and still loving it. Read here about how it all began two years ago, September 7, 2010 or take a look at where I was last year.  Let's talk money? Blogging = Money and yes I've made a little and it's actually picking up some. Calculating my earnings to date $1665 dollars, in freebies and payments. Not alot when you consider it's been 2 years, and that amounts to about $65 per month, but honestly I would blog for FREE, so an extra $1665 bucks in my pocket, I am EXCITED.

And it's all thanks to you my readers and friends, without you guys blogging would just not be as fun. THANK YOU, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. I enjoy and read every comment and truly do appreciate you.  Now let's see how my little piece of the blog world is doing...

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My Most Requested RecipePan Fried Onion Dip
 This is by far the most requested (and favorite) recipe in my house. I will be making a batch or TWO of this dip when I am in Missouri next week. (Serve with Kettle chips and you will never make regular onion dip EVER again, I Promise) 
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Spinach Artichoke Grill Cheese

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My daughter is a recipe (sandwich) connoisseur, I wouldn't be surprised someday if she opened up a sandwich shop in New York City (her second love), but for now let's get through the first year of college. She was not very pleased with her fast-food sandwich she got tonight after the Lindenwood University football game, I am sure she would love to have one of mommy's sandwiches right about now.
Since her twin sister loves spinach artichoke and she is always up for something new, I decided to create this sandwich before they left for Missouri from one of the CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGES. 

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Spinach Artichoke Grill Cheese
adapted (alot) by me, originally  from a recipe found at Recipes of a Cheapskate

pre-packaged Spinach Artichoke Dip
1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese
1 tbsp olive oil or butter (for the pan to brown the grill cheese)
4 pieces bread

On each piece of bread, spread butter on one side. Heat a griddle pan to medium heat. Add 2 slices of bread to the grill, spread some cheese, the spinach-artichoke dip mixture, and some more cheese (approx 1/2 cup per sandwich). Top with the other slice of the bread. When the bottom is browned, flip the sandwich and cook until the other side is browned.

Caramel Apple Dip - IMPROVED {THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS LINKY PARTY #100}

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I have always loved my apple dip that originally came from a Pampered Chef cookbook long long ago, but lately my friend has been making this great apple dip and so I thought I'd give it a try. It's actually almost exactly like mine, see original recipe here, but even better.

Caramel Apple Dipidea from my friend Joleen, adapted by me, original idea from Pampered Chef

8 oz package cream cheese3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans (or use your favorite kind of nuts)
Caramel Ice Cream Topping
Heath Bar Crunch Topping (found in the baking isle)
Apple Slices (soak in Pineapple Juice)

In a small mixing bowl combine cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla beat until smooth. Add in pecans and beat until combined. Transfer to a serving bowl and then cover the top with Heath Crunch Bar and drizzle with lots of caramel on top.
Core and cut apples slices into wedges and then soak in pineapple juice. You can remove apples and serve on a platter with the dip and the apples will not go brown. Perfect dip for my fresh picked apples from Oak Glen, it's apple picking season and I LOVE IT!

 THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS has changed, you can now link up ANY recipe you'd like. Come one, Come all. NO rules, NO requirements, just link up any recipes (or food related craft items) and hop around to visit all the great recipes.
 If you are a regular to THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS Linky party, then link-up we're excited to see what you made this week. We are no longer sticking with ONE theme, so just link up any of your favorite recipes. 
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Gooey Trail Mix {Nestle Toll House Morsels}

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This recipe is for sure GOOEY and for sure DELICIOUS. It's a very tasty {but} gooey candy Trail Mix. It's simple, it's versatile, it's easy to customize to your liking and it's SO good you can not stop eating it.

You can make it with almost any kind of cereal, you can add in pretzels, switch up the nuts to your favorite kind, if you don't like coconut leave it out and you can pick any kind of Nestle Toll House Morsels to add into your trail mix.  We choose this awesome Nestle Toll House Morsel mix of Peanut Butter Chips and Chocolate Chips and a bag of Nestle Toll House Mini Chocolate Chips, what an easy way to give it that peanut butter and chocolate flavor all in one.

We had so much fun in the kitchen cooking away and creating recipes. My twin daughters are off to college so with the help of one of their friends and my son, we had a blast cooking, baking and of course lots of taste testing. We started our day at 7:30 am apple and raspberry picking and then we came home to bake the night away. We made so many recipes the kitchen look like it exploded at one time. We not only created this delicious Gooey Trail Mix, but we baked a few apple pies, we made homemade raspberry muffins, a caramel apple cupcake and birthday cupcakes for my twins, then we added in banana bread for another blog post I need to get done before I left on vacation and well when it came dinner time we had so many sweets, we had to find some left overs in the refrigerator to eat. It was SUCH a fabulous day and so many amazing things came out of the kitchen yesterday, that I can tell you it was a blast and we can wait to get together again soon. This CRAZY mom was still going strong when the kids checked out. 

Gooey Candy Trail Mix
2 (12 oz) boxes of your favorite cereal
1 (7 oz) bag shredded coconut
4 to 6 oz of your favorite nuts (we used peanuts)
1-1/2 cups butter (yep, that is 3 whole sticks of butter)
2 cups sugar
2 cups corn syrup
1 tbsp Sea Salt (optional)
2 bags Nestle Toll House Morsels (any flavor, we used Peanut Butter & Chocolate and Mini)

Combine cereal, coconut and nuts in a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine.

In a large sauce pan, cook butter, sugar and corn syrup to a soft ball stage, this is best with a candy thermometer, cook until about 234 degrees. Pour the syrup mixture over cereal mixture and stir until all is well coated. Then wait until mixture has cooled down a bit before adding in chocolate chips, you don't want them to melt. Then add in one bag of the chocolate chips and fold in carefully.

Line 2 large cookie sheets with parchment paper and pour out mixture flat, add the second bag (the mini morsels at this time on top of the flat mixture), then let cool. Stir it around occasionally to prevent clumping. Store in an airtight container.




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