hey y'all today is all about homemade
delicious gifts that you can't buy at
the store first I'm gonna be taking a
jar from my collection and I'm gonna be
layering it with all the things that I
love for my 5 layer bars and then I'm
gonna be bagging up a tasty taco chili
mix that's really gonna spice things up
and if you happen to have somebody with
a sweet tooth on your list then you've
got to try this buttery English toffee
and to top it all off I'm gonna be
crossing the border with a simple
southwestern deer so everybody out there
grab your ribbons because today we're
cooking up some memorable treats that
are sure to top your gift list
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you know when I go out of town a lot
sometimes people will have gift baskets
waiting on me in my hotel room and it's
usually got a lot of food in it and I
love it I love gifts from the home and
from the kitchen especially I love
giving gifts from my kitchen in fact I
just found a couple of things over there
that I'm gonna be using later on in the
show the first thing I want to show
y'all is a wonderfully simple easy
recipe and it's great to give to
somebody look right here
the recipe that I'm fixin to share with
y'all is all right here in this jar and
in this little bag and these are called
a five layer bar I'm gonna start with
one and a half cups of graham cracker
crumbs and I crush these up myself which
I have right here in the little baggie I
think I'll have to supply their own
butter because I think that could get
messy but I'm gonna add one cup of
melted butter to our graham cracker
crumbs and I'm just gonna make sure that
all those crumbs are moistened with that
butter and then we're just gonna dump it
into a 13 by 9 by 2:00 p.m. and then
we're just gonna press that into the
bottom of our pan and then we're gonna
start layering our five ingredients so
there you go on the first layer I'm
gonna add one cup of butterscotch chips
my next layer is gonna be two cups of
semi-sweet
chocolate chips and then my next layer
is gonna be a half a cup of chopped
pecans mmm oops I left some chips down
in there want to get every one of them
alright and then my next layer is gonna
be one cup of sweetened flaked coconut
so how good does that look
alright now my very last ingredient that
goes into my dish is one can of
sweetened condensed milk and I'm just
gonna drizzle that over the entire top
of our five layer bars mmm you know I've
got recipes in my cookbook for sweetened
condensed milk
it's sugar in regular milk and boil it
till it thickens you know sometimes you
you think you've got everything when you
start a recipe and come to find out you
don't have any sweetened condensed milk
but it's very easy to make your own in
fact you can make them a homemade order
of sweetened condensed milk and packaged
it in a separate jar so that would be
nice just to make sure or you could just
pick them up a store-bought can and
bring it along with the five layers that
you're going to put on top now we're
gonna put this in a 350 degree oven and
we're gonna bake it for 30 minutes and I
couldn't stand waiting that long so I've
got y'all one ready here in this oven
that I want you to see look at that
oh it looks so good that first one may
be ugly coming out oh but it's not too
ugly mmm I love the flavor of the pecans
and the chocolate and the coconut and
then that butterscotch barring it oh
it's so good you know it's just the
perfect kind of sweet cookie that you
don't need much but it sure does satisfy
that craving mmm I'm really really good
I'm gonna take a break for a second and
while you're gone I'm gonna be gathering
up the ingredients for my next dish a
taco chili and I'm gonna show you an
adorable way to package that and give it
as a gift and later I'm gonna be showing
y'all another great gift idea
a spicy southwestern dip so I'll meet
y'all back in the kitchen in two minutes
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hey y'all welcome back come on down here
let me show you the next gift that
really bags up nicely a spicy taco chili
I've got one pound of ground beef in my
cast-iron skillet
so that's browned off nicely now I had
called out a bowl in a strainer just in
case my beef was fatty but it's really
not so you know I don't want to drain it
because that's gonna leave a lot of
flavor in it so I'm not gonna need this
now to our ground beef is gonna add four
cups of water I'm gonna add one can of
tomato sauce one can of diced tomatoes
you can see it's got green chilies in it
wonderful wonderful tomatoes alright now
I'm gonna come over here I've got 1 cup
of red kidney beans and I've got 1/2 a
cup of pinto beans that I soaked
overnight these are dry you can find
them in the right section in the bean
section at your grocery store now I'm
gonna just pull these out like I said
I've had them soaking it'll make them
cook a little bit quicker rather than
not soaking them the soaking just helps
their cooking process all right so into
the pot this goes alright now to our pot
I'm gonna add one envelope of buttermilk
dressing and you can find that in your
salad dressing section you know in the
powder in the envelopes and then I'm
gonna add one package of taco seasoning
which is really gonna give this pot a
lot a lot of kick in flavor and then I'm
gonna add a third of a cup of dried
onion flakes and then one tablespoon of
chili powder and then last I'm gonna add
in 1/4 of teaspoon of dried cumin
we're just gonna stir all these
ingredients up ooh this is gonna be
delicious okay so I'm gonna let this
come to a ball then I'm gonna cover it
and I'm gonna let it simmer on a rather
low heat for like two hours so now let
me show you how I'm gonna package this
up for a friend so let me get these
things together I try mix our dried
beans taco chips and I'm using a little
Croker sack I always have plenty of
Croker sack fabric around my house
because I have to tell you I keep big
old bags that we do sack races in so
I've always got Croker sack around my
house I'm just gonna gather these up
kind of put them in the center pull this
together
and this looks like a kind of
south-of-the-border package doesn't it
it's just got that feel to it all right
now I've got some ribbon and because I
don't want to take anybody dead flowers
I'm gonna be using an artificial flower
but it's gonna work up very very pretty
so just in here with my ribbon and then
I'm gonna come in here with my flowers
and my piece of greenery and every cook
needs a spoon a good wooden spoon I just
love them so I'll make sure that they
have that tucked in there there you go
I'm just gonna take a little extra
ribbon make me a bow and put it right
there tie it up again
and how cute is this little package so
cute it's just that simple now come on
down here we need to go ahead and taste
this taco chili oh it looks so good you
know that seasoning that we put in it's
just gonna make it wonderful mmm all
right I'm gonna take my taco chips and I
think I'm just gonna crunch them on top
just like that sometimes I put them on
the bottom but sometimes I like them on
the top you know a girl's got a right to
change your mind so I never know how I'm
gonna do it all right a dollop of sour
cream some green onion tops look at that
you could also sprinkle this with some
cheese black olives
I love it mmm mmm it's so good now when
we come back y'all I'm gonna change this
little plain empty tin into a toffee
field beautiful ten that's gonna make a
great gift
that's right coming up next its English
toffee and then last but not least a
spicy southwestern dip that I think
you're gonna love so stick around y'all
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hey y'all welcome back I'm fixing to
make a gift that the receiver doesn't
have to fix anything all they have to do
is chew because I'm gonna make it for
them and I'm gonna fill up that blue ten
that I had with a wonderful English
toffee I've got one in 3/4 sticks of
butter I'm gonna add 1 cup of sugar and
I'm gonna add 2 tablespoons of water now
I'm gonna cook this to a hard ball and
I'm not saying ball y'all like Bo il I'm
saying ball be a double L and we want to
cook this to a hard ball okay I've got
that incorporated now I'm gonna add a
pinch of salt okay now that's
incorporated good now I'm gonna stick
the thermometer down in here gonna put
that on about medium heat and I'm gonna
cook that to 300 to 320 now I'm gonna
come in here and put me a double ball or
own to melt our chocolate and you know
it's how much ever chocolate you want
you know I like a lot of chocolate so
I'm probably gonna melt about a cup and
a half of semi-sweet chocolate chips all
right so this is ready it's at about 320
degrees all right so I'm gonna turn off
this flame and I'm gonna add a teaspoon
of vanilla
that alcohol is talking to that sugar
and butter in it
okay I'm gonna stir that in stir in some
chopped pecans it's gonna make that
toffee soda wonderful now I'm just gonna
take this and I'm gonna pour it on to a
buttered cookie sheet okay and I'm just
gonna kind of let it run out on that pan
oh look you can see it see I'm able to
move the whole thing it's starting to
cool off just that quickly and it
doesn't matter if it covers your pan you
know that's not a problem at all
okay oh my chocolate it's melted nicely
that's ready to go so this is a still a
little warm so I'm gonna put this on the
counter and let it cool off I've got
another one here because I'm giving a
batch but I'm keeping a batch so this
batch is cooled whew done that look good
can you hear that it's gonna snap in my
mouth when I bite it look bad whoa
[Laughter]
sometimes I think I've got hands of
Steel when I really don't okay so here
we go mmm
look at all that chocolate don't it look
good yo now I'm just gonna spread this
chocolate all over that toffee Oh
life is good you know it's funny some of
life's simplest pleasures can make you
the happiest Oh perfect now I'm just
gonna let this cool and then I'm gonna
break it into pieces I'm not gonna try
to cut this or anything I'm just gonna
snap it wherever it wants to snap when I
come back I'm gonna show you how I'm
gonna take this loot in and load it up
with this sinfully delicious English
toffee and then I've got one final gift
a simple Southwestern dip that's what's
coming up next
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remember I promised y'all a couple of
minutes ago that I was going to be
sharing a wonderful tip that you can
make up and give us a gift it's so good
so simple and all I'm gonna do is add
dry ingredients to my bowl and I'm gonna
start with 1/2 a cup of dried parsley
1/4 of a cup of ground cumin 1/4 of a
cup of dried chives 2 teaspoons of salt
1/3 of a teaspoon of dried minced onion
and 1/3 of a cup of chili powder and
we're just gonna mix this up we're gonna
store this in a jar and when we're ready
fuddy up all we have to do is pull this
out of our pantry and mix it with 1 cup
of mayonnaise
1 cup of sour cream so all we're gonna
do now is we're gonna take our cup of
mayonnaise our cup of sour cream and
we're gonna add 3 tablespoons of our dry
mix and then I'm gonna stir this
together and I'm gonna put it in a
refrigerator and let it sit for a couple
of hours because it's gonna take a
little while for all those flavors to
develop okay now look at that dip it
really needs to sit for a couple of
hours but I can't wait that long and
this is great with vegetables or a
veggie potato chip mmm it's really
really good
so let me share with you how I like to
package this little gift up for friends
you can see I've taken just an ordinary
can in jar and I've tied a ribbon around
it and I've simply just taken some of my
little thank-you notes with my name on
them and
I've jotted down the recipe in the card
makes a great little gift
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gosh I can't believe it's or any time
for us to go I could stay in here all
day long thinking of gifts that I could
make to give to friends now when I left
you a few minutes ago with the English
toffee I told you I was gonna fill up
that move
cute little tin box and I did you can
see it's just full of that wonderful
English toffee and I tied a bow around
it there's just beautiful colors that go
just perfectly with the 10 this is a
great little gift
I love the five layer bars I hope
they're so good and when you're ready
for something savory that southwestern
tip y'all is so very good but you know
what I think I have to say that that
wonderful taco chili was my favorite
today and it's so simple to make up all
the dry ingredients into a little gift
bag for friends because this is
definitely what makes that dish so
before we go I've just got to taste this
top of y'all look at it you can see the
toffee on one side and the chocolate on
the other
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wonderful hope y'all like them and it's
always y'all until next time I send you
love and best dishes from my kitchen to
yours have a great week