My husband and I spent the weekend in Salt Lake City. We did quite a bit of walking and it was chilly.

Chilly? Chilly? Who am I kidding? It was downright freezing cold.

It made me wish that we had some wassail to drink when we got back to the condo.

I have a wassail recipe that I want to share with you.  It is way easy to make — especially with grandchildren.

Wassail

2 cups Tang
1 3-oz. package pre-sweetened powdered lemonade Kool-Aid
1 1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl.  Mix well. Store in an airtight container.  When you want a drink, simply mix 2-3 teaspoons of the mix in one cup of hot water.

See?  I told you it was easy.

Your grandchild could give some of the wassail mix to a friend along with a fun mug.  Put the mix in a Ziplock bag and put the bag in the mug and wrap the mug in clear cellophane paper and add a bow.

Maybe you ought to double the recipe so that you can mix up some and drink with your grandchild when you are finished.

Yum!  Warm, cozy, and tasty.

Thursday, a woman at my work brought a treat to share with everybody. It was called Tiger Butter.

Such a fun name! (I imagine the name would really appeal to little grandsons.)

When I tasted it, I had a hard time eating only one piece.

(Actually, I went back at different times throughout the day to check on the candy . . . Totally for security’s sake.  Totally. It was sitting on a shelf and I didn’t want anything bad to happen to it, you know. And if you believe that, then I would like to introduce you to my friend from Nigeria who needs all of you bank account information . . .)

When she told me how to make the candy, I knew immediately that I had to share it with my readers. It is such a snap to make!  Here’s the recipe.

Tiger Butter

16 ounces white chocolate chips
1/2 creamy peanut butter

Microwave for 1 minute — or until melted. Cover a cookie sheet with waxed paper. Pour the mixture on the paper and spread it out.

Take 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and melt in the microwave.  Drop small spoonfuls of chocolate over the peanut butter mixture.  Swirl the chocolate into the peanut mixture with a knife. Cool until firm.  (It’s best not to cool it in the fridge. Just leave it on the countertop.) Break into pieces.

This candy is something that would be really easy to make with grandchildren.  And, it will be a hit — if your grandchildren like peanut butter and chocolate. (I can’t imagine any grandchildren who don’t.)

And the best thing is that there aren’t lots of pots and pans to clean up and it’s fast, fast, fast to make.

It’s also fast, fast, fast to gobble it all up!  Voice of experience here.

Remember my Oreo Turkey post? They were a challenge for me to make. They seem to want to fall over all of the time. Placement of the candy corn feathers had something to do with that, so I’ve been told.

Then there was the Edible Pilgrim Hat. Much easier. (You’ll have to scroll down and down past the pictures of the baby quilts that I made to see these lil’ darlin’s.) I think that I’ll make some of these for a Thanksgiving treat this year when the extended family comes over to endure my Thanksgiving cooking.

Well, Grandma Lizzie has some cute turkey favors using gum drops and candy corn. It looks like they might be lots easier to make than the flock of retarded turkeys I made. I think that the secret to successfully making her turkeys is the fact that she uses wafer cookies instead of Oreos. Oreos are much heavier than Nilla Wafers.

This would be a great activity for grandchildren to make while they are waiting to sit down at the table to eat the Thanksgiving meal. They could put the favors on the table beside each place setting. Keep the grand kiddos busy and get table decorations that you don’t have to make yourself.  That’s a win-win situation if you ask me.

Head on over to Grandma Lizzie’s and check them out. Then make some with your grandchildren.  Let me know how they turned out.

I think that I am a fairly good cook.  I make a fabulous dried crust of bread and tepid water.  That’s my specialty for our Sunday dinner.  Isn’t my family lucky?

My dried jerky and potato chips was another big hit with the family — especially after they were finally able to cut it up into bite sized pieces with the chain saw. Betty Crocker and I are tight. Like this.  (Can you see me crossing my fingers?)

Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon a site where there are just as delicious, nutritious, and spectacularly creative foods like what I serve my family.  The site’s owner and I are soul sisters.  Merely separated in age by several centuries.

When I saw her Banana Gobble Pancakes, I knew this was one creative gal.  Boy, howdy!  Don’t you agree? (And she was extra sweet to allow me to use this picture from her site.  Creative, generous — that’s Kellie!)

This made me think that you could adapt this idea to make a pig face (using banana slices as the nostrils and chocolate chips for eyes) or a dog or cat (using string cheese or pretzels for whiskers). I’m sure all of you creative grandmothers out in grandma-land can come up with clever ideas, too. You can even get your grandchildren to give you ideas of pancake animals to make. (Hey, I just thought of something. Make Santa by putting Craisins for eyes and nose and then spraying canned whip cream for a beard. That’s a healthy idea, eh?)

I took some time to poke around and see what else Kellie has created.  You’ve just GOT to see these:

• Graham Gobbler
• Pilgrim Hat Snacks
• One Little Indian
• Tom Turkey

Then she has others that are clever, clever, clever but aren’t Thanksgiving based:

• Fall leaves
• Jack the Pumpkin King
• Hello Fall
• National Talk Like a Pirate Day (love, love, love the treasure map and the pirate ship)
• Read SMore Books (This idea will make you rush immediately to the store to get stuff to make this absolutely cute snack!)
• Kids Monkey Snack
• Giggles the Giraffe

I could go on and on and on.  But you get the picture.  She’s got food creativity coming out the wazoo. You’d better bookmark her site so you can keep up with her delectable ideas.  Thanks, Kellie, for letting me share your ideas on my site.

As for me, I think that I’m just going to pop over to her house for lunch.  Like, every day.

See you at noon today, Kellie!