Puppy Chow: Not for Dogs
August 11, 2014
This past weekend was hot, humid and just down-right miserable (until a surprise rainstorm came through). While we were inside avoiding a heat stroke, I decided to whip up some puppy chow. If you've never had it before, you are truly missing out! It's an easy-to-make, super yummy snack, but beware! It's highly addictive (what peanut butter and chocolate snack isn't, though?)!
Be still my beating heart...
5 cups of rice square cereal (I used off-brand)
1/4 cup butter, 1 cup chocolate chips, 1/2 cup peanut butter. Throw it in a bowl and microwave it for a minute and a half (I microwaved it on 80% power)
Stir it all together. Avoid diving head-first in.
Dump it onto the cereal.
Be sure each square is coated nicely.
Dump in powdered sugar. I didn't measure this...just dump it, put a lid on the bowl and shake it until each square is pretty well coated. I had to go a few rounds of powdered sugar before it looked like this:
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Project Deck Update
It has been one rainstorm after another with a few super hot days thrown in, so we haven't made much progress on Project Deck. Plus, I was too busy working on my sister's baby shower brunch, which went very well! Mason will be one lovingly-spoiled little boy! :)
Hubs has the deck area marked off where the support posts will go. Yesterday, he bolted the clamps into the concrete bases, and with a break in the hot temperatures (tomorrow's high is only 89!), I imagine we will get a lot done this evening and tomorrow. Whatever we don't get done by Thursday will just have to wait because we will be taking a short vacation to the BEACH where we will be going to Kenny Chesney's only concert this year–a FREE show on the beach at the FloraBama! Needless to say, I'm pretty excited!
Here are a few pics:
The deck will be level with our back porch...so about a foot or so off the ground. Nothing fancy.
Check back next week for some pics from the beach!
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