DCC Blog Hop - Handmade With Love!

~ Welcome to the February DCC Blog Hop ~

Handmade with Love!!

First of all I might as well admit

that for the past two days I've been in a frenzy

because in addition to the usual

(including but not limited to basketball, dance rehearsals, 

injuries,  cooking, cleaning, cooking, cleaning,

~ yes, I used those each twice, when frankly

using the word cooking four times per

day and the word cleaning endless times per

day would be a much more accurate

portrayal of what goes on up in here ~

supply organizing, costume making, prop

painting, driving, um ... 

did I already say cleaning??)

I've thought that I had a button project

due today. 

Turns out, now that I've finished the

button project and I'm editing photos for

the button project and I'm looking

for all the information I have to include about

the button project,

I realize that the button project isn't

due until MARCH.

So it's a good thing I have another

post ready for today.

Doc brought home a recipe the other day.

It was hand-written, from someone
at the office, and there

was no recipe title or name.

I have made this mystery recipe

seven times in seven days.

I have adjusted the amounts of

ingredients to suit

the boys' tastes.  And mine.

I might as well admit I've put on four

pounds and it's pretty clear

that this pan of deliciousness is to blame.

*Heat oven to 350 degrees.

 *Line a jelly roll pan with heavy duty

aluminum foil.

Trust me ... if you use the regular

strength foil, the caramel coated goodness

will stick to the foil and you will

have to pick and peel tiny slivers of

foil out of your snack before

you eat it.  This may or may not make

you cry, but why take that chance??

Ingredients:

Graham Crackers

2 Sticks Unsalted Butter

1 Heaping Cup Brown Sugar

1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 Heaping Cup Chopped Pecans

*Melt butter in saucepan on low heat.
Add brown sugar.

Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and

boil for 2 minutes.

Don't be discouraged when it looks like this.

Keep on stirring, and eventually

you'll get this: (which is what you want!)

Remove from heat.

*Add vanilla.

*Add the nuts.

~Since I store my nuts in the freezer

to keep them fresh,

I add the nuts and then put the pan

back on the heat and stir

for another 2 minutes.

It's going to be thick, not runny,

but adding cold nuts without putting the

mixture back on the heat just

cools the mixture and makes it really

super hard to spread.

Pour the mixture over the grahams

and spread as well as you can.

It probably won't cover the grahams

completely, but we will fix that.

Bake for five minutes,
then open the oven and use your
wooden spatula to spread the bubbly
mixture thoroughly over all the grahams.
It's MUCH easier to spread
at this point!
Bake another five minutes,
remove from oven and cool for one hour
before breaking apart and
eating the entire pan yourself.

Just kidding.
Sort of.

My boys just LOVE this tasty snack!

~ Peace Out ~