"Eat it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do,
Or go without."
~A Pioneer Sampler, by Barbara Greenwood~

Pioneer Woman at Heart

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

28 Weeks Until Christmas

 

Restocked.  Our grocery stores used to carry this, but with vanilla in it.  All area stores stopped selling it.  I have now prepared for the Christmas season, by re-stocking the organic/non-gmo corn syrup for any holiday treats.

If I don't make holiday treats, it will not be a wasted purchase.  I use it to make homemade Teriyaki sauce and also for a sweet treat (maybe once a year, and I typically share) of Whiskey Butterscotch Sauce (that is a true delicious sweet treat worth gifting, but will need refrigerated).


Tried a new recipe for baked and flavored pretzels.  I had about a half of a bag that was leftover from another occasion, and I decided to bake garlic-ranch pretzels.

First, the recipe stated to put it all in a ziploc bag and shake it.  I found that most of the seasoning stuck to the inside of the bag.  I will coat the pretzels in the bag with oil first next time, then sprinkling the season on the tray and mix right on the tray to retain the seasoning.

I used homemade garlic powder, and homemade ranch dry dressing mix for ours.  Very good too.  I only had the stick pretzels, but obviously, you could use any pretzel.  Most non-gmo pretzels we can find are in the "stick" form.

Recipe is very simple, and pretzels bake in 20 minutes.  It is a very quick recipe to add to your snack tray, or take to a gathering. Or simply to enjoy yourself.  Eating on a Dime (Recipe online).


Read this Christmas themed book, and crocheted a matching granny square for my book blanket.  The book also contains a recipe.



The recipe seems pretty bland or basic, but I may give it a try (to amuse myself), before handing the book off to another person.  Then again, I may not try it.  


I have not made any purchases for the advent gifts.  I, honestly, have not had the time to even think about them. 

I have finally found a store that still offers brown paper bags.  I have plans to use them to wrap the advent gifts with.  I have also ordered a roll of brown paper (pretty inexpensive), because I don't shop that often with a garden.  

I do need to get the wrapping of the gifts started, so I'm not wrapping them all at once.

6 comments:

Betsy said...

How do you have time to do everything that you do? The pretzels sounds yummy. The granny is pretty. I really like how you match the colors to the book, they are so "spot-on".
Blessings,
Betsy

Anne in the kitchen said...

My grandmother had a recipe for tea cake that was the same and we have loved it for decades. We have always made them very thin so they are pretty crisp.
I have to order my organic corn syrup. I have never found it around here.

Pioneer Woman at Heart said...

Betsy, thankfully that pretzel recipe is very quick and easy. I am really slowing down with reading this time of year, so I am hoping the blanket ca be finished. The book was a very quick read too. Thank you on the color matching. I still have more scrap balls of yarn.

Pioneer Woman at Heart said...

Anne in the kitchen, now you are making me want to try the recipe lol! Yeah, it's tough to find stuff like the corn syrup here. Heck, I can't find organic apple cider vinegar by the gallon either.

R's Rue said...

Pretzels sound so yummy.

Pioneer Woman at Heart said...

R'r Rue, they are so easy and delicious to make.