Well Xmas shopping is done!

That's the good news, bad news: and I didn't get to go to TO like I mentioned in my last entry and I am now broke until early January.
I was broke within 2 hours of shopping and couldn't go without money to spend. :(
Now my friend is pissed off at me because I stood him up. LOL shit happens.

So I sit here at 7 am bored out of my mind and preparing to make rice krispy peanut butter balls and squares. Dad is bringing me down home made pickles (recipe to follow, if I can find the damn thing) and snowballs, it's not Christmas without Newfie snowballs to munch on and leave for Santy Clause on Xmas eve.

The T's are excited and I am too, but not because I get anything (I never do :( ) but because my kids are. It's about them!
I will be back with another entry in a few with a link to a sad documentary I just finished watching and again tonight; because I plan to post and update regularly just to vent my troubles. :) so get used to it!!!
Recipe for Newfie "pickle" or chutney. Yummy with cold plates and Turkey dinner. Best served cold, like the way you use Cranberry sauce.

This is a traditional Newfoundland recipe.

by evelyn/athens

5

cups (this is approximate)

35 min 15 min prep

1 1/2	lbs cherry tomatoes, washed and cut in half
2/3	cup white sugar
1	cup white vinegar
1	teaspoon mustard seeds
1/4	cup pickling spices (tied in cheesecloth)
2	teaspoons salt
6	cups coarsely-chopped onions
2	cups coarsely-chopped granny smith apples

1. Put tomatoes in saucepan and add sugar, vinegar, mustard seeds, salt and pickling spices. Stir well. Bring to a boil, and boil for 5 minutes.
2. Add chopped onions and apples. Boil vigorously for 5 minutes then cover tightly, turn off heat and let stand about one hour. (may be boiled longer if you like the onions really soft.
3. Pack in jars and store in refrigerator.

RECIPE FOR SNOWBALLS:

In a large saucepan, combine and boil together gently over medium high heat for 5 minutes or until mixture reaches about 230 degrees F on a candy thermometer:

3 cups sugar
3/4 cup melted butter
1 & 1/4 cups milk

Once mixture begins to boil it is very important not to stir it at all.

Mix together

3 cups large rolled oats
1 cup unsweetened fine coconut
12 tbsp cocoa

Add the boiled mixture to the dry ingredients until well combined and chill until mixture is able to be shaped into 1 1/2 inch balls. Roll the balls in additional coconut. Makes about 4 dozen. These freeze very well.