HAPPY FALL, Y'ALL!

Delicious acorns as seen on the interwebs. I only made mine with chocolate kisses.

The calendar says it's autumn, but the days feel more like summer! Regardless of temperatures, the plants' photosynthesis is making things change around here. On our daily walks, Tara and I step over the smattering of acorns that litter the trail. She chases random acorns; I often kick them ahead or scrunch them under my feet. But, eat one of those? I don't think so! I don't feel that squirrely and Tara likes the crunch but not the taste! 

I stumbled across someone's Pinterest post about how to make edible acorns. So, being me, I follow the recipe EXACTLY - not!

Nestle peanut butter and milk chocolate morsels

To make my acorns, I used Nestle peanut butter  and milk chocolate morsels from which I had to pick out from this bag just the peanut butter ones because I couldn't find a bag of just peanut butter morsels.

 I used Hershey Kisses and...

An open bag soon becomes an empty bag!

...miniature Nabisco vanilla wafers. "Nobody can eat just one" little mini Nilla wafer; they are as addictive as Lay's potato chips! (No, don't use potato chips to make these acorns, I was just using Lay's catch phrase!) 

I need Tech Support to figure out how to make this photo sit up straight!
You'd think this was Tara not doing what I tell her to do!

I didn't use Royal Icing since I only wanted a smidge of icing not the large quantity the recipe would make! So I stirred up a little bit of powdered sugar and milk to act as the glue.

The rest was a matter of peeling Hershey's kisses without eating all of them, dipping said kisses in the bit of icing, attaching the two together and letting them dry. Then I picked out the peanut butter morsels, dipped them in icing and stuck them to the other side of the mini nilla wafer. Then voila - acorns! 

If you want some of these for your next fun treat, I would be happy to make some and send them to you. As usual, that would require a small fee to cover shipping and handling. Or, you can drop by and we can make some of these because I served the ones pictured here at the last P.E.O. meeting and they have been devoured!

(If you are still reading, please note that I didn't post the picture of just the mini wafer with a peanut butter morsel attached because that looked more like a snack to serve at a baby shower! You'll have to make some of these to see for yourself exactly what I mean!)

Happy fall, y'all!

HOT PEPPER RELISH

We have been so fortunate to have such a relatively cool several days in a row. So, I took advantage of the cool weather to make some hot pepper jam.

Does this photo make you want to taste some pepper jam too? All you need is a jar of my hot pepper jam, some crackers, and maybe cream cheese if you prefer. Maybe you should come visit me? I have all that here! Or, you can make some for yourself!

TASTING!

The peppers were purchased from The Farm Wife's Table; the conditions haven't been right for my garden to produce peppers.  But Angie has the best produce! 

Bells and jalapenos

After removing all the seeds, I used my food processor for the chopping. Of course, I carefully measured, mixed and followed the cooking directions on the insert in the Sure Jell box. The results were tasty! And of course, as always, I followed the recipe exactly...except I did add some green food coloring.

Chopping

I wore rubber gloves when handling the peppers and making this jam. I always wear rubber gloves when I am canning. It helps prevent burns. But I tossed those gloves in the trash when I was finished because I couldn't wash off the hot pepper!