Texas Style Chex Mex Holiday Cranberries & Nuts Super Bowl Texas Latrine

Texas Style Chex-Mex

• 1 cup butter
• 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp. seasoned salt
• 1 tsp. garlic salt
• 2 tsp. onion powder
• 3 cups corn chex cereal
• 2 cups wheat chex cereal
• 2 cups mixed nuts
• 1 cup small pretzels
• 1 cup garlic flavored bagel chips
• 1 cup pretzel rods
• 6 dashes Hot Sauce
• 2 tsp ground Cumin
• 2 tsp. Mrs. Dashes
• 1 Bag of seasoned Croutons with Garlic
• 1 bag of Dried Cranberries, add after the mix has cooked.

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Melt butter in large roasting pan in oven (5 minutes).  Stir in  wet seasonings. Add Dry ingredients meaning spices and mix until coated.  Then you add the cranberries after the mix has cooked and its cooling.  Bake at 250 degrees for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Spread on paper towels to cool, and store in airtight container.

Hello to all my foodies friends out there in web land, I hope all is well.  This recipe I made up for the Aiken Home Show for the VIP room and am just now getting it into recipe foam to share with you.  This is a great recipe that you can use over the holidays or at a Super Bowl Party and the play off games.  That is if you are into

that kind of thing.  I don't watch football mush and when I go to a bowl game I

usually just check out the foods and talk to people about how they made their dishes.  I remember my parents yelling at the TV when they would watch their team the "Dallas Cowboys" and I think my mom yelled louder then anyone else in the room.  Now my mother-in-law is the one yelling at the Texans, I guess things never change!  However when it came to food and cooking my parents always went first class all the way and whatever a guest wanted at our house they got.  My dad was a big steak man and when I left home I swear I'd never eat a steak again.  My hubby's grandparents gave us a half a beef while we were in college and I made that butcher cut all the meat into Hamburger meat and when Nancy went to pick up the order the butcher said to her," are you the nut that had me cut all this beef into hamburger" and Nancy said that she turned white and said I hope am not the nut!  She said that she could not believe that I had the butcher do that but I explained to her that for one thing I didn't care for steak and that I had to make that Beef last for almost a year, which is what it did.  My hubby only made 55.00 a week in college and we had to pay rent and electric bills.  I don't think we had a phone back then.  So we ate a whole lot of Chile and Mexican food, which my hubby still likes to this day, Frito pie was one of my favorites with a Blue Ribbon Beer!  Come on it was cheap back then! My brother came to see us and he was in the Army and when he came into the apartment he said," my God Eileen you live in a Latrine!"  Yea, I remember that I could see holes in the bottom of the metal shower floor and the water ran out.  Any way I had to give Chris a very fast bath the water didn't last long.  Well now I can say the water stays in my shower now. That's also the apartment that had been newly painted and I was cooking Pinto Beans in my new pressure cooker and the nozzle flew off and the beans all went though the little hole on the pressure cooker, what a mess I had to clean up in the kitchen ceiling, I never let that happen again, pressure was to high on the gage.  Any who I hope you all give this little recipe a try and come follow me on this blog and also come like my fan page on face book,"Cooking With MadJon & Friends.  Come join me on penterest and linkedIn.  Watch the TV show at aikenstandard.tv or .com, happy trails to you until we meet again.  Eileen Hutson, madjon51@aol.com with any questions.  Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

History of Chex Mex

Bag of commercially-prepared Chex Mix

Commercial Chex Mix

Chex Mix is a type of snack mix that includes Chex breakfast cereal (sold by General Mills) as a major component. There are commercially sold pre-made varieties of Chex Mix, as well as many recipes (often printed on Chex cereal boxes) for homemade Chex Mix. Though contents vary, the mixes generally include an assortment of Chex cereals, chips, hard breadsticks, pretzels, nuts or crackers

History[edit]

Chex cereal was introduced in 1937 by Ralston Purina.^[1] By 1952, recipes for "Chex party mix" appeared on boxes of Chex cereal. However, it was not until 1985 that pre-packaged products were introduced commercially by Ralston Purina and the trademarks registered to it.^[2] Chex party mix became popular as a holiday treat when purportedly in 1955, the wife of a Ralston executive in St. Louis served the snack at a holiday function. ^[3] However Chex party mix was not a unique idea: it was one of many popular "TV mixes" – snacks which could be consumed without interrupting television watching – which appeared in the 1950s with the introduction of television. For example, a 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook includes a recipe for a snack mix made with Kix cereal.^[4]
In August 1996, General Mills acquired the Chex product line from Ralston Purina along with other brands.