Crazy Karo Crunch

This is a recipe that my family remembers my great grandma making. She passed away before I was born, but she is quite the inspiration to me in many ways.

More on that later.

This carmel corn is the best carmel corn you will EVER try. I used her recipe with a touch of a modification. I like more pop corn than carmel. It gets too sweet. It is seriously like eating pieces of heaven, as far as carmel corn goes.

Crazy Karo Crunch

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Butter

1/2 Cup Karo Syrup (Light)

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1/2 tsp Vanilla

2 Quarts air popped dry pop corn

Cooking spray

Preheat Oven to 200 degrees

1. Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray (I actually cover my cookie sheet in tin foil for easy clean up).

2. Spread the pop corn across the cookie sheet and PICK OUT ALL OF THE SEEDS! (so important)

3. In a pot on the stove, combine butter, sugar, and syrup on high. Stir until boiling. Reduce heat to Med-High and boil for EXACTLY 5 minutes. Add Vanilla.

4. Drizzle over pop corn, stir, and bake for 15 minutes.

5. Remove pop corn from oven, mix the pop corn and carmel around replace in oven for another 15 minutes.

6. Repeat step 5 until carmel corn has been in the oven for an hour and has been mostly covered in carmel.

7. Allow it to cool, break apart, and serve.

Things you may want to know in advance:

1. I know the caramel mixture looks frightening delicious, but don't lick the spoon. It's hot. I know, I know. You're thinking "I'm not stupid, of course I won't lick the spoon." Just wait until you think about licking the spoon. You'll thank me.

2. This recipe tastes like Wethers Original in pop corn form.

3. I know baking soda helps the mixture spread. I know it spreads things more evenly. Don't use it. It also takes away from the lovely Werthers taste and makes it plain old carmel corn. The mixture won't get as crunchy and delicious if you add it.

4. Add peanuts for the last 15 minutes. Viola. Home made (and better than the original) Cracker Jacks.

Kickin it off FHE style

So, I have to admit. I have made this blog because I'm obsessed with Pinterest. I use it constantly. But, my obsession has also lead to a more organized home. It's lead to me being quite the activity activist too, not to mention all of the seasonal decorating and baking!

Sometimes I think that I could contribute some of my home-life to the site, yet my home life doesn't fit in with any of my other web sites. So, here you have it. The random site of whatever I'm thinking. I suspect that most of my postings will be activities with my children and family oriented things, thus the name Blogging With Children.

This is a simple Family Home Evening we did this week. It was easy to do with our toddlers, because they are used to talking about things they love before bed time. I decoratively wrote gratitude (cleverly spelling it grattitude so that I didn't have to write attitude of gratitude and we would have more space). From there, we just starting listing the things that make our lives what they are until we filled the page. We could have gone for several pages. Then, we hung it on our fridge: planning to keep it there for the week.

This activity was simple and fulfilling. I had the idea when a facebook friend posted, "What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked the Lord for Today?" It had me thinking that my family needed a little gratitude.