I'm A Grown Ass Man

[Jade Harley]

Oh my goodness, I was looking for a thread like this!

Chocolate Bird Nests

What you will need:

• 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, finely-chopped
  2 cups thin pretzel sticks, lightly crushed
  Some kind of nuts, peanuts, almonds, whatever, or even marshmallows I don't care

Directions:
Coat a six-cup muffin pan with cooking spray; remember to put in those cute little paper muffin cups and spray them down. Put the chocolate in a heat-proof bowl and set the bowl on a saucepan of simmering water(but do not let the bowl actually touch the water Just let it slowly melt). Stir the chocolate until it has melted into a smooth, goopy state.

Remove the bowl from the saucepan and stir in the broken pieces of the pretzel sticks. Scoop chocolate-pretzel mixture into the prepared muffin cups. Make an indentation in each to form a nest. Chill until the nests are set, probably for like, I don't know, three hours or so.

Fill the best nests with candies or other things that look vaguely like bird's eggs. VOILA, you are the chef, it is you!

Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels

What you're gonna need:

• 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
  2 and 1/2 tablespoons yeast.
  2 cups warm water.
  3 tablespoons oil.
  4 and 1/2 cups flour (or more)
  2 cups hot water
  1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  Pretzel salt (however much you want, I'm not gonna stop you if you dump the whole Dead Sea on there)
  Melted butter

Directions:
Preheat your oven to 450°. Mix the first five ingredients; allow dough to rise for 15 minutes. Roll and shape into pretzel twists!

Combine 2 cups hot water and baking soda; dip pretzels into this mixture. Let them drain on paper towels. Place them on a cookie sheet and sprinkle with pretzel salt. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown. Dip in the melted butter or drizzle the butter over them. DONEEE

Quoted from the Leaning Tower Popcorn Recipe from the "101 Things To Do With Popcorn" recipe book:

What you will need:

• 1/4 cup of butter or margarine, melted
  1/2 teaspoon of seasoned salt
  1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
  8 cups of popped popcorn

Directions:
In a small bowl, stir together the butter, seasoned salt, and basil. Pour over popcorn in a large bowl and stir to coat. Makes 8 servings. Wow, that was easy.

Quoted from the October Ale recipe from "The Redwall Cookbook"

What you will need:

• Two(2) cups ginger ale.
  One(1) cup grape juice.
  Optional one(1) teaspoon of sugar.

What to do:
Mix the ingredients together and serve chilled. I personally really like this recipe 'cause it takes like, two seconds. Also it's freakin' delicious.