Birthday Rice Treats

1 small box fruity pebbles
1 box generic rice cereal
2 10 oz bags marshmallows
1 stick butter

In your largest mixing bowl, measure out 12 Cups of cereal. In 4 qt. saucepan on stove, melt 6 Tbs. butter, and gradually add 20 oz. marshmallows so they melt down. When your mallows are melted, (add sprinkles!) pour over the rice cereal. Mix with spatula. Spray a 9x13 pan with non-stick cooking spray, such as Pam. Pour cereal into pan. Spray the top of the cereal pile with Pam, and use gloves or waxed paper to press cereal tightly into pan. It gets very sticky, so don't be afraid to spray down your gloves with Pam as well. Press mix firmly and pack it in there really good. Now if you turn the pan over, the whole loaf should fall out, and you can cut into squares without it falling apart.
Wrap them in plastic right away so they don't get stale.
Makes 24 adult sized treats.

"Lobster" Linguini

1 package imitation lobster chunks
1 small tub blue cheese
8 oz. package mushrooms, sliced
2 Tb. butter
splash of 1/2 and 1/2

Saute mushrooms in butter.  After mushrooms are soft, add lobster chunks to heat them up. Season generously with black pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic, fresh herbs, or whatever you have.  Add the splash of cream and 1/2 the blue cheese; it should melt and become creamy.  Serve over linguini. Garnish plate with extra cheese crumbles.

DIY Foaming Soap

1. Buy some nice smelling soap or shower gel from the dollar store.
2. Fill 1/3 to 1/2 of foaming bottle with soap.
3. Very gently add water to fill bottle the rest of the way.
4. Tilt bottle back and forth to mix soap. Do not shake or it causes soap bubble to form and overflow bottle.
5. Enjoy foaming soap for a fraction of the cost.

Fancy Sneakers

String Cheese Chicken

Butterfly chicken breasts as well as you are able. Insert a stick of string cheese and close with toothpicks or string.  Season chicken and bake as usual. (Convection 400* for 25 minutes is usually enough)

Nature

Caramel Corn

I had to create my own caramel corn recipe because they all called for corn syrup or heavy cream or some type of organic sugar that I don't have.  Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

1 C. unpopped corn
1 C. party peanuts - Optional
1 C. brown sugar if you have it or 1 C. white sugar and 3 Tb. molasses
1 Stick butter
1/4 C. water

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon baking soda 

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Pop all the popcorn and spread it on two baking sheets lined in parchment, removing any unpopped kernels you find.  In a saucepan combine brown sugar, butter, and water and bring it to a boil. Boil for about 8 minutes until it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla and baking soda (Do this quick cause it will bubble and puff up). Pour it over your popped popcorn and peanuts and toss it till all the popcorn is coated. Bake for 45 minutes stirring several times during baking.