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Fall is Coming! {Caramel Popcorn Ball Recipe} {Recipes from Us}

September 10, 2014 by Dana

Falls coming.  I can smell it in the air.  The plants are changing and the pond is showing the early signs of the season’s change. 
This is my favorite time of year!

Fall brings us out of the house and into the world again.  Summer in the South gets awfully hot, y’all.  We tend to hibernate behind closed doors with the air conditioner keeping things cool.  So when that weather starts changing, we head out the door and spend as much time in the coolness as possible.

In the Fall, we do field trips to places that we greatly enjoy.  The beach for walks, the state parks to see what we can learn and the Zoo when we are able.  Anywhere that brings learning and fun, combined into one!

Fall is also the beginning of our favorite Holiday season: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We love these holidays and love to share them as a family.  The holidays lead us back to the kids birthdays, which is a season all in itself when you have 8 kids to love.

One of our favorite things for Fall are Caramel Popcorn Balls.  This was a childhood favorite of everyone who knew my Momma.  Every year she’d make up a big ole batch of Popcorn Balls to take to our school events and everyone loved them.  Momma doesn’t make them much anymore but it’s still something we enjoy when we are able to.

The recipe is really simple and easy to make but it does make a sticky mess and can be HOT, so be forewarned before you attempt to make these gooey goodies for your own family and friends.

Caramel Popcorn Balls

4 T. butter or margarine
1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup (Momma prefers Karo)
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
6 qts popped corn

Combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup in a saucepan.  Stir well.  Bring this mixture to a boil over medium heat.  Add in the condensed milk, continuing to stir constantly.  The mixture will become a soft ball when it reaches around 236*.  Stir in the vanilla at that point.

Pour this mixture over the top of the popped corn, stirring to coat all of the popcorn.  Lightly butter up your hands to prevent the sticky, gooey mixture from sticking to you.  Shape the caramel popcorn into balls that are about 3 1/2 inches in diameter. 

You can wrap these up in cellophane or saran wrap to keep them from sticking to one another or to anything else for that matter.   Tie them with a cute ribbon and add a label for the Holiday to make them a gift!

One thing Momma always did was add in food coloring to make these festive colors for the Holiday.  Halloween the popcorn balls were always orange, while at Christmas she used red and green.  She’d add the food coloring before pouring the mixture onto the popcorn balls and after adding the vanilla.  If you are using two colors, then half the mixture and the popcorn so that you can make half the batch one color and half another color.

I don’t have a picture of these since we haven’t made them in a while but I promise they will be hit around your home for the Holidays just as they are around ours!

Enjoy!

Filed Under: 2014, autumn, christmas, end of the year, fall, gooey goodness, halloween, holiday, Popcorn balls, recipes from us, season, thanksgiving

Norman Rockwell Presents Coming Home for Christmas {Propeller Review}

November 24, 2013 by Dana

Norman Rockwell Presents:
Coming Home for Christmas
Home Is Where the Heart Is


Meet the O’Brien’s: a typical American family who have their ups and downs.  Sisters Kate and Melanie stopped speaking to each other after Kate walked out on Mel on her Wedding Day.  Five years later and they still aren’t talking.
Their parents, Wendy and Al are being pulled apart from this falling out between their children.  Wendy keeps hoping to purchase the family home again but when a new family moves in, her hopes of reowning their old home and repairing this rift between her estranged daughters is lost.  Al adopts a new puppy to replace the missing element of his girls.  Neither one can cope with the one thing their family misses most: each other.
Can the sisters overcome their disagreements and hurt brought upon them from a bad choice years before?  Will the love of their parents’ become more important to them then the hurt they’ve caused one another?  And how have their lives changed for the worse or the better over the past five years?
To find out, you’ll have to watch Coming Home For Christmas available for $9.96 at Walmart.  This movie stars Amy Jo Johnson, George Canyon, Britt McKillip and Carly McKillip.  This cast is sure not to disappoint!  Coming Home for Christmas is a movie the whole family can enjoy!!

Filed Under: 2013, amy jo johnson, britt mckillip, carly mckillip, christian, christmas movies, coming home for christmas, DVD, george canyon, holiday, movie, norman rockwell, Propeller Review

FFH’s One Silent Night and Giveaway! {Propeller Review}

November 24, 2011 by Dana

FFH’s One Silent Night is an absolutely beautiful cd filled with wonderful Christmas songs sure to get you in the Holiday Spirit.  Old favorites like Baby It’s Cold Outside, Winter Wonderland, and Jingle Bell Rock await you on this cd along with a few new songs, or songs that I at least have never heard before!

I personally love this FFH’s One Silent Night Christmas Album.  It is quickly becoming one of my own personal holiday favorites.  And as always, the kids love it too!! 

This album is available in FFH’s webstore at https://ffh.net/store/one-silent-night/ for $12.99.  It will be one of your favorite purchases for this holiday season.

One lucky reader will win their own download of this wonderful Christmas album from Luv’N Lambert Life though!  Just enter below through Rafflecopter.  Be sure to click each entry for directions on how to enter properly!  And good luck to everyone. 

Have a very merry Christmas!!

“Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Filed Under: 2011, christmas, ffh, ffh one silent night, holiday, merry christmas, one silent night, Propeller, Propeller Review

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