Caramel Apples

Next Monday is the beginning of our local fair.  I can't wait.  http://kiwanisogeecheefair.org/index.html  We've only lived here for two years, and we have yet to go to this one.  But from everything I keep hearing it's going to be alot of fun.  Monday opening day, admission is only a canned good for each person.  You can't beat that.  A cheap way to get in and a way to help others.
But as I've said in previous posts it's not the rides, its' the food.  I guess if I really learned how to make all the fair food, I would be as big as the side of a barn.  But once a year can't be too bad. 
So this week I have found a recipe for caramel apples.  They are so simple, it will be another one of those recipes that you can get the kids in the kitchen to help you with.

Caramel Apples


6 apples

1 (14 ounce) package individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
2 tablespoons milk

Remove the stem from each apple and press a craft stick into the top. Butter a baking sheet.   I haven't tried it but I would think wax paper would work just as well.
Place caramels and milk in a microwave safe bowl, and microwave 2 minutes, stirring once. Allow to cool briefly.
Roll each apple quickly in caramel sauce until well coated. Place on prepared sheet to set.

So simple.

Hey ya'll!! We have a winner!!!

These giveaways are just about as much fun as winning.  But we have a winner it's Diana over at  To Everything  A Season.  She's having her own great giveaway so go enter.  You have until Tuesday night to enter.

For God So Loved The World

I found this picture online, and it made me think of, the more that we read His word.  The more we will realize His love for us.

John3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.


Why do we take something so simple, and make it so hard?   Just imagine if you will the love we have for our own children.  We are God's children, so why should He love us any less than we love our own children.  If we could actually phathom just how much.  Because would we, in the flesh really give one of our children up, to die for a world of sinners. 

John 15:13

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.


We live so far below what He actually wants for us,  and most of us don't  even realize it.

Matthew 7:7
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Corn Dog Recipe

This is the county fair corn dog recipe many know and love.

The corn dog is a food deeply associated with state and county fairs.

Corn Dogs

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. baking powder
Milk
3 tbsp. sugar
1/2 cup cornmeal
Hot dogs

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients together and add just enough milk to make a thick batter.

2. Dip hot dogs into batter and deep fry until golden.

Gooey Butter Cakes

Gooey Butter Cakes

One 18 1/4 ounce package yellow cake mix

1 egg

1 stick butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine ingredients and mix well. 

Pat into a lightly greased 13x9 inch baking pan.

Prepare filling.

One 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 stick butter, melted

One 16-box powdered sugar

Beat cream cheese until smooth.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Add butter: beat.  Add powdered sugar and mix well.
Spread over cake mixture.  Bake for 40-50 minutes.  You want the center to be a little gooey, so don't overbake.

And this is how we love to enjoy it.  Vanilla ice cream melting on it.  Are ya'll hungry yet?

Hey Ya'll It's Paula Deen

That's right, that's my giveaway.   The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook.  Autographed by the one and only Paula Deen.  I love doing this giveaway because the Savannah area is where I lived for forty-six years.

I can remember the first time I saw Paula Deen.  It was December, 2003.  The company that my husband was working for then had finished installing the heating and air conditioner in the Restaurant that she is presently in.  The company decided to return the favor and have their Christmas party there that year.  Paula came in the room and talked to a few people at the other end of the room where we were sitting.  I can remember another wife begging her husband to go get her autograph.  But needless to say he didn't.  That was before we were all so ohhh and ahhhh over her.  Definetly WAY before I had a clue as to what a blog was.  So definetly didn't take a camera to a Company Christmas Party, where I knew no one.  I was the new one on the block, because my husband and I didn't get married until March 2004.
Well the following March when he and I did marry he gave me a cookbook that she had autographed.  You can tell she wasn't as busy back then as she is these days, because she autographed it to me personally.  I regret getting it so stained, but it has been used alot.  I will be sharing some of my favorite recipes from it this week.

So this is my giveaway, It will end on  Monday October 5th. 
Very simple.

To Enter This Giveaway:


1st - Leave me a comment telling me your favorite Paula Deen recipe.

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4th - Tweet about this giveaway & comment that you do

5th - Blog about this giveaway & comment that you do

Please leave your e-mail with each entry and leave seperate comments for each entry.
You don't have to blog to enter, just leave your name and an e-mail.

Have fun.  A recipe and pics of a dessert I made today from this cookbook, coming tomorrow.

Other Great Giveaways

Diana   is having a great giveaway.    Look at this beautiful bag.   Go check it out for yourself.



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