Cookie Wreaths

1 cup butter
8 cups cornflakes
2 Tab vanilla
64 marshmallows
green food coloring
red hot cinnamon candies

Melt marshmallows in microwave with butter. add vanilla and food coloring. Stir in
cornflakes and mix gently. Shape into wreaths/sm swags. Place on wax paper or foil.
If gets to hard to handle cooling, just heat a little again in micro or on top stove. Decorate with
cinnamon candies as shown.

Keith's Peanut Butter Chex Mix---for my son

1 1/2 c. peanut butter
1 1/2 sticks butter
3 cup choc. chips
2 teas. vanilla
2 boxes chex/crispix type cereal (24 cups)
4 cups powder sugar

Combine butter, peanut butter, choc. chips and microwave 2 minutes. Add vanilla. Stir till all
disolved adding vanilla last. Place 2 boxes of cereal in huge bowl. Pour over melted mixture.
Stir carefully not to bread coating all pieces. Place in plastic garbage bag. Pour confect. sugar
over. Toss to coat all. Store in containers. Last good month.

RUM BALLS MY VERY OWN

1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
1 c firmly crushed vanilla wafers
1 c onfectioner's sugar
2 Tab cocoa
2 Tab. Karo corn syrup (lite)
1/4 c rum

Combine and roll into balls (1 in.). Dip in powdered sugar and let sit few days
for rum flavor to ferment.

Chicken Arribiatta Cattiatori

6 lbs chicken boneless breast tenderloin pieces thawed
3 bottles of Arriabata Italian Sauce (Trader Joe's Brand)
1/2 bottle of Chianti wine
2 tab. sugar or Nevella equiv.
1 bag thawed frozen sweet peppers (Trader Joe's)
1 lb. portabella sliced mushrooms sauted litely in non-stick spray
3 sliced red onions
1 28 oz can diced Italian tomatoes
2 14 oz cans tomato paste

Place chicken breast in large dutch oven and brown in little olive oil. Add three
bottles of Arriabata sauce, 2 lg. cans tomato paste, diced tomatoes, 1/2 bottle less of good red wine (Chianti preferred) and cook low approx. half hour.
Add red onions and simmer covered another half hour. Add mushrooms, sw. peppers, and
sugar. Simmer 1/2 hour till flavors blend. Serve over pasta (I prefer a multi-grain) or just with good
Italian crusty bread.

My Pumpkin Pie with Fresh Grated Spices

one deep dish baked pie shell

3/4 c. sugar
1/4 teas salt
2 teas cinnamon
1/2 teas fresh grated dried ginger
1/2 teas. ground clove
3/4 teas fresh grated dried whole nutmeg
2 eggs
15 oz can pumpkin
12 oz can fat free evaporated milk
(fat free is very creamy!)

Combine all ingredients in large bowl slowly pouring can of
evaporated milk, blending in well. Pour all into pre-baked
deep dish pie shell. Bake 425 oven 15 min, then reduce temp
to 350 degrees and bake 50 min or till knife inserted comes out
clean. Cool....Always tastes very best slightly heated and serve with
whip cream...

Scalloped Corn Casserole

4 cans cream corn
2 cans drained kernel corn
2 cups milk
2 1/2 rows of Ritz type cracker crush
with hands, not too finely
1 small onion chopped fine and cooked
lightly in microwave to soften
3 heaping tab. brown sugar
salt and crack pepper to taste,
I use very little salt, lots of crack pepper
1 stick butter to dot top of casserole

Mix all ingredients in very large casserole dish. Dot top of casserole with butter. Bake
uncovered for one hour till thickened and lightly brown. Great with ham or turkey.....

Snowball Cookies

2 c butter
1 1/2 c peanut butter
2 lb powder sugar
2 c coconut
2 1/2 c chocolate chips
4 c. oats
1 teas. vanilla extract
2 c powdered sugar for dipping

Combine extract and peanut butter. Add rest of ingredients except 2 c. powdered sugar for dipping, blending well. Roll into small balls and dip in powdered sugar. Set on foil lined trays. Refrigerate.