Road Trip!

Well, I thought my blog had been broken, but it turned out to be my seriously inept technical skills...oh well :)

And we're off!  J and myself are headed to Gainesville for Kallie's Graduation this weekend!  I am so excited to see everyone!  One small pit stop in Auburn to pick up Anna-banana and we'll have about 5 1/2 hours of car fun ahead of us...yeah, so I've decided to make it a little more exciting and came up with some homemade snacks.  First up, Butter pecan cookies...you'll never want a Sandie again.

3/4c. chopped pecans

1/2c. butter, room temp

1/3c. sugar

1/8 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1c. all-purpose flour

Preheat to 350.  Toast pecans until fragrant (about 6 min) and cool.  Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt.  Add flour, fold in pecans.  Roll dough into small balls and roll dough balls in sugar.  Gently flatten and bake 12 min.  So easy, which is why I love these!

 Look at that mixer go, I really love this thing way too much.

Mmmm...

I also decided that instead of buying the Jalapeno Chex mix that I can't get enough of, I would make my own hot and spicy mix!  Of course I didn't follow just one recipe, I was working around about five I found and I added in a little of my own stuff too!  Here it is:

6 tbsp butter

1 1/2 tbsp seasoned salt

1/2 tsp onion powder

2 tbsp worchestire sauce

3/4 tbsp garlic powder

2 tbsp hot sauce (I used tabasco)

3 c corn chex mix

3 c rice chex mix

1 c buffalo hot wing flavored pretzels :)

1 c crushed bagel chips

1 c goldfish

Melt the butter and mix in the seasonings, pour over dry ingredients.  I baked it at 250 for about 30 min.  Of course I sprinkled a little more tabasco, seasoned salt, and added some hot everglades spice stuff we had just to make sure it had enough kick.  I already can't stop eating it and we haven't even left yet.

More pics from Gainesville when I get back!  Have a great weekend!