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Snack Time {Recipe: Whiskey Honey Toasted Walnuts}

Kristen — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:59:40 +0000

Whiskey Honey Toasted Walnuts is a versatile and tasty snack recipe featuring the goodness of Diamond Brand Walnuts.

Are you a big snacker? I honestly have never been a big eat in between meals kind of person. I fuel my in between meal time with coffee, for sure, but have never been one to really snack a lot on other things.

I’m starting to think that’s because maybe I haven’t been snacking on the right foods. I made this amazing recipe for Whiskey Honey Toasted Walnuts originally as a salad topper and as something to add texture and flavor to my morning yogurt. What I didn’t expect to happen was to create a new snack food that I just can’t stop eating! I should probably be embarrassed by the sheer number of walnuts I’ve eaten as a snack since creating this recipe. I just can’t seem to get enough of them!…

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Spring Into Lunch with Glad {Recipe: Salted Caramel Almonds}

Kristen — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:45:16 +0000

Amazing lunches have never been my strong suit. Dinner? I can do. Lunch? It’s always been hard for me to create lunches my kids will enjoy and that won’t get thrown out with the trash when lunch is over.

I used to simply do sandwiches for them… I’d add a fruit and some pretzels or crackers and call it good. It was only recently, when my 9 year old started getting in on the lunch making action, that we started to get a little more creative in our lunch time efforts. Here is what my daughter thinks are the keys to making an exciting lunch!

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Simple Treats {Skittles Marshmallow Pops}

Kristen — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:17:30 +0000

I did something ahead of time for a holiday. Can you believe it? I’m feeling rather on the ball right now.

I signed up to bring treats to Leah’s Valentine’s Day party at her preschool. I don’t usually do that… I typically leave treat bringing up to the more creative, “pinteresting” moms, but I figured preschool kids are pretty easy to impress. Surely, even I, could make something easy that they would love….

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Now I Get It! {Recipe: Biscoff Biscotti & “Keep Warm” with Frigidaire}

Kristen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:29:46 +0000

I finally get the love people have for Biscotti. I honestly didn’t understand it before. Why was there such adoration for a crunchy type treat that seemed to be having an identity crisis? Is it a cookie or is it a biscuit? Besides that, all the Biscotti I had in the past seemed dry and way too crunchy for my taste….

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Buttery Brown Sugar Popcorn Recipe

Kristen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:13:51 +0000

A sweet and salty popcorn recipe makes the perfect snack on National Popcorn Day or any day of the week. Read below for the Sweet and Salty Buttery Popcorn recipe.

Today is National Popcorn Day…who knew, right?

When I first started blogging, I had what I thought was a brilliant idea. I’d do my blog posts each time it is a National Food day. Oblivious as I was to the fact that every single day is a “national food day” of some sort. Of course, as an over zealous new blogger, I’m sure I figured blogging every single day about whatever star food of the day was would be a cinch. Riiiiigggghhhhttt…. You all know my lack of consistency with posting well enough to guess the outcome.

My dreams of being the “National Food Day” blogger extraordinaire never happened and instead I just hop on the National Food Day bandwagon whenever it is convenient for me, which happened to be today with National Popcorn Day. My kids love popcorn and we make variations of stove top popcorn all the time. That’s what I like about popcorn… you can just pile on whatever you like most (for me, that always includes at least butter) and have a new type of treat each day. Like most of the popcorn we make around here, this isn’t really a recipe. It is just one of the variations of sweet and salty we love.

I hope you had a very happy National Popcorn Day. Let’s celebrate again in a couple days, shall we? I hear it’s national cheese day! Enjoy!

Recipe: Buttery Brown Sugar Popcorn

A buttery brown sugar popcorn perfect for snacking!

Course Dessert

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 15

Author Dine & Dish

Ingredients

1 cup unpopped popcorn
1/4 cup butter melted
1 Tablespoon Kosher salt
1/4 cup brown sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 250°
Pop un-popped popcorn using this method
Pour popped popcorn onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
In the meantime, melt the butter in the skillet. Pour melted butter onto the baking sheet over the popped popcorn. Stir until evenly distributed.
Sprinkle salt and brown sugar over the popcorn. Bake for 10 minutes. (Baking isn't totally necessary, but it helps the brown sugar, butter mixture adhere to the popcorn better). Pour into a big bowl and enjoy!

If you are on the lookout for another popcorn recipe, check these ones out from around the web:

Perfect Stovetop Popcorn from Simply Recipes
Homemade Kettle Corn from Tastes Lovely
Chocolate Popcorn with Sea Salt from Celebrating Sweets

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Cinnamonster Rice Krispies Treat Snack Mix & $100 Gift Card Giveaway

Kristen — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:38:57 +0000

This giveaway is now closed. The winner of the $100 gift card is Laura from the blog Trains and Tutus. Congrats to Laura and thank you to all who entered!

October is here, which means it’s time for another post about Team Kansas City’s Rice Krispies® Treats Making Memory Challenge! This months challenge was to highlight Halloween with a Rice Krispies treat and craft.

We’ve been chatting about doing a snack mix for quite some time and I am so glad we decided to go this route. I have to say, our Cinnamonster Rice Krispies Treat Snack Mix is my favorite tasting treat yet. Who doesn’t love a good snack mix? How about a snack mix with crunchy cinnamon sugar Rice Krispies treat bites, popcorn, cashews, and M&M’s? So delicious!

There are so many fun ways to serve Cinnamonster Rice Krispies Treat Snack Mix. We loved these Monster Cans so much and felt like it was the perfect combination of spooky and tasty! Imagine how fun this would be to bring to your next classroom party. The kids will go crazy for this fun treat.

Before the recipe, like all of our Rice Krispies Memory Making Challenge posts, my friends at The Motherhood and Rice Krispies want to give you the opportunity to win a $100 gift card! To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite Halloween treat is! For an additional entry, tweet the following:

“Check out the fun Cinnamonster Rice Krispies Treat Snack Mix on @dineanddish & enter to win a $100 Gift Card! http://su.pr/5HmKdh”

Leave a separate comment on this post letting me know you tweeted the giveaway! All entries must be received by midnight on Tuesday, October 25th. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and notified via email. All three of my teammates, Kelly from Kansas City Mamas, Jenn from Super Jenn and Julie from My Kansas City Mommy are each giving away their own $100 Visa Gift Card, too. Visit them for even more chances to win!

For details on how to make our spooky snack mix containers or how to make a chocolate version of our delicious Rice Krispies Snack Mix, visit this post on my teammate Jenn’s blog!

Now for the recipe:

3 Tbsp. Unsalted Butter
4oz. cinnamon flavored marshmallows (1/2 bag)
2 1/2c. Traditional Rice Krispies®
Cinnamon Sugar (Mix to your personal cinnamon/sugar preference)

Melt 3Tbsp. Butter in a heavy saucepan over med-high heat.
Add marshmallows, stirring constantly until melted and mixture is smooth.
Add RiceKrispies® to hot mixture in saucepan (this keeps them warm, and thus easier to manipulate, longer)
Mix thoroughly.

Spray cooking spray on a cookie sheet and pull out small chunks of RiceKrispies mixture one at a time to work with. Pull apart enough to make small balls of krispies treats, slightly smaller than “bite sized”.
You will need to work quickly. The cooler the mixture gets, the more difficult it is to shape.

Roll each ball in the cinnamon and sugar mixture to coat. Set aside on waxed paper.
If not using immediately, cover tightly to store.

Tip **If you want a more crunchy texture to your cinnamon balls, set your marshmallows out the night before so that they dry out. They will melt as normal but when the final mixture cools it will be more crunchy and less chewy.**

Mix Cinnamon balls with 1 1/2c. popped popcorn, 1/2c. salted cashews and 1/2c. chocolate candy pieces.

This is a sponsored post on behalf of The Motherhood and Kelloggs Rice Krispies. All opinions expressed are my own.

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Simple and Special {Recipe: Chocolate Dipped Oreo Cookies on a Stick}

Kristen — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:55:49 +0000

Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the outlandish, especially when it comes to kids. I forget that to get smiles on their faces, it doesn’t always require something big and grandiose.

In this day and age of elaborate kid parties, parents determined to outdo each other and hyped up hoopla, take some time to do something simple for your kids. It is often the most simple of things that get the biggest smiles!

I saw these Chocolate Dipped Oreo Cookies on a Stick over on Pinterest, which led me to the Hip Hip Hooray site. Being the creatively challenged person that I am, I needed a little more direction (my cookies kept slipping off the stick). Chery from TidyMom came to the rescue by sharing this tutorial over on SheKnows. Once I figured these out, it was approximately 10 minutes from start to smiles from my kids.

A little more fun than just plain Oreos, these Oreo Cookies on a Stick are a simple way to have some fun with your kids.

Oreo Cookies on a Stick

You’ll need:

Oreo Cookies
Melted dipping chocolate (I actually used vanilla almond bark, because I had that on hand)
Sticks
Sprinkles

For full instructions head over to She Knows and check out their simple tutorial.

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Go Green With Sunkist Valencia Oranges {Recipe: Creamy Orange Milkshake}

Kristen — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:05:00 +0000

This post brought to you by Sunkist. All opinions are 100% mine.

Creamy Orange Milkshake

So, oranges are supposed to be orange, right? Guess what… not always!

I know…that’s news to me too. I just assumed with a name like orange you’d be that color, but with Sunkist® Valencia oranges, that’s not always the case. I recently found out this cool little fact…

Sunkist® Valencia oranges may occasionally “re-green” in warm weather. When Valencias ripen on the tree, they turn a bright orange color but warm temperatures may make their skin reabsorb chlorophyll as they hang on the tree causing the orange color to look partly green—although the outside is green, the inside remains ripe and delicious!

As someone from Kansas, I just assumed if we were getting green oranges in the store, it was because they were picked too soon and not ripe or had been sitting too long. Not always the case.

So the next time you are in an all important trivia match, and a question comes up about Valencia oranges being green, you’ll know exactly why that is so. If you want to up your Sunkist® Valencia Oranges trivia knowledge, you can also check out this video that explains the ripening process of Sunkist® Valencia Oranges.

Sunkist Valencia Oranges Re-greening Video

I love infusing my favorite citrus flavors into a yummy summer treat. This Creamy Orange Milkshake using Sunkist® Valencia oranges tastes like a day on the beach. Enjoy!

Creamy Orange Milkshake with Valencia Oranges

Creamy Orange Milkshake

Author Dine & Dish

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream
3/4 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
1/3 cup skim milk
1 Tablespoon orange zest
Orange slices for garnish

Instructions

Using a blender, combine ice cream, fresh squeezed orange juice, milk, and orange zest until well blended and frothy. Pour into 2 tall pint glasses or 4 small glasses. Garnish with orange slices.

Make sure to check out other additional Sunkist citrus recipes on the Sunkist site!

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