FRUIT CHEESE BALL

2 (8)oz. Packs Cream Cheese, softened
31/2 oz. Box Instant Vanilla Pudding
15oz. Can Fruit Cocktail, drained
1 or 2 Small Bags Chopped Pecans

In a medium bowl cut or chop up the fruit cocktail into small pieces. Mix cream cheese and pudding and fruit cocktail together. Form into a ball and roll in chopped pecans. Put in plastic wrap and put in ref. to chill over night. Keep ref.

EASY BUTTERSCOTCH STICKY BUNS

14 Frozen Dinner Rolls
6 Tablespoons Cook and Serve Butterscotch Pudding Mix

Mix Together:

1 Stick Melted Butter or Marg.
2 Teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Chopped Pecans
Place the 14 frozen rolls in a buttered bunt pan. Sprinkle the rolls with the butterscotch pudding. Then sprinkle the butter and cinn. mixture over the rolls. Cover with alum. foil and let rise overnight. Do not put in the ref. Let sit out. The next moring bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and invert on a round plate. If you want you can also make these in a 13 x 9 sprayed pan. If doing this then use 20 frozen rolls. Use the same mixture. Serve hot.

SPRITE CHICKEN

This chicken is so tender you can cut it with a fork.

1/2 Cup Soy Sauce  
1/2 Cup Canola Or Veg. Oil
1 Cup Sprite

1/2 Teaspoon Horseradish
1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Powder or Salt
6 Chicken Breasts or 10 Chicken Tenders
Mix the first 5 ings. together in a gallon ziplock bag. Add the chicken and marinate in the ref. for 2-8 hours. Bake or grill until done. In oven on 350 for 30 minutes or until done. Do not over bake.

TOFFEE DIP

1 (8 oz) Pack Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Bit O Brickle (toffee bits)

Mix the cream cheese and brown sugar together until smooth. Then stir in the toffee bits. Serve this with fruit. Very good and easy. Keep in ref.

RITZ CRACKER CRUSTED CHICKEN LEGS

1 Pack Chicken Legs, washed
1 Sleeve Ritz Crackers, crushed fine
Seasoned Salt
Sweet Milk

Crush the ritz crackers until they are fine. Spread these out on a plate. Wash chicken and pat dry. In a medium bowl pour some sweet milk in it. Dip the chicken legs in the milk and then salt them very lightly. Then roll them in the ritz crackers and bake on 325 for 30 minutes or until done.

PEACH AND STRAWBERRY FRUIT DIP

2 Cups Fresh Strawberries or Peaches
1 Tablespoon Honey
1/2 Cup Vanilla Yogurt
1/4 Teaspoon Almond Extract
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1(8)oz. Mascarpone Cheese, softened
More Strawberries, Peaches, Melon, Apples, Grapes for dipping
In a blender or food processer pluse the 2 cups of fruit and honey until coarsley chopped. Add the yogurt and extracts. Pluse until the right consistency. Stir in the mascarpone cheese. Chill. Serve with fresh fruits or melons.

DOWN CAME THE "CEILING FANS"

It was looking bad outside and the weather was giving a storm brewing. Crack goes the lighting. As one of our friends was in the kitchen down in Alb. she began hearing the sounds of the storm approching outside. All at once there was a loud bang. Then next thing she knew she was on the floor and her ceiling was on top of her. She did not know what had happened.
She began calling for her husband who was in the bedroom wanting help. He was lieing on the bed when he heard the loud sound. The ceiling fan in the room came down and landed on the bed. It did not hit him or kill him. All of the ceiling was laying on the bed. He did not know what in the world had happened.
He began calling for his wife. So amist all the rubble he made it to the kitchen to check on her. They were both save thanks to God.
What had happened was lighting had hit the roof of their house. As the ceiling was sheetrock, I don't know if it was nailed in or screwed in but when the lighting hit the top of the house it made all of the screws or nails to come loose from the sheetrock and all of it fell.
I have never heard anything like this. But it did happen. You would think that nails or screws that was deep in the wood would hold anything and as I have hung plenty of sheetrock myself I know how hard it is to nail or screw it in. It must have burned the nails or screws into.
As most of us have ceiling fans in the bedrooms about our beds I am sure thinking about getting rid of mine after this happened. They have just got all of the mess cleaned back up. They had to move out of their house for so many months until it was all fixed back over. Just like rebuilding a home. Had to put on a new roof and fix all the walls and ceilings. I don't know if the cabinets fell or not.
With the weather changing so much, even here in the mountains, we have saw a big change in the weather pattern. It makes you afraid because you do not know what is going to happen next.
Last summer we had hail bigger than golf ball size. We have had tornadoes when there has never been anything like this close around. I am so glad the Lord spared our friends lives.