White Trash

I like doing cooking posts, because I feel like the Barbara Stanwyck character in Christmas in Connecticut, one of my favorite Christmas movies. Only I can cook, and I have a husband. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch the movie. It’s cute.

While my tomato sauce cooked yesterday, I made some White Trash for the holidays. I originally put this part in yesterday’s post, when I was handwriting it at work (on break, of course). As the post grew lengthier, I thought why have one over long post when I can have two medium length?

I’m actually not sure if I should put the recipe in my blog, because I don’t know if it is copyrighted or not. It’s written on a sticky note in one of my recipe books. I got it from my mother, who got it from a lady she met at a wedding to which I was not invited (really couldn’t have been that fun a wedding, could it?). Monday I made it from memory, as I usually do.

I melted a 16 oz bag of white chocolate chips, to which I added 2 tablespoons of olive oil (not old Garlic and Herb like I used in the tomato sauce: recently purchased plain). In a big bowl I put 6 cups Crispy Hexagons, 2 c Tasteos (I didn’t spring for name brand cereal), 2 c broken waffle pretzels (I broke them myself into not too small pieces), and 2 c peanuts (roasted, lightly salted). I poured the melted stuff over the other, stirred it as best I could, and spread it on wax paper to cool. To be Christmasy, I sprinkled red and green sugar on it.

It’s pretty simple, but kind of a pain in the butt with the stirring and spreading. The last time I made it I got really irritated and vowed I would never make it again. I would stick to Chex Party Mix, I said (I buy generic Chex cereal, too, but what else are you going to call Chex Party Mix?). That was almost a year ago. The memory of my irritation had faded, and I know some people who LOVE White Trash.

I have enough ingredients to make another batch, although I probably won’t be able to get another blog post out of it. Oh well, I’m no Elizabeth Lane (the Barbara Stanwyck character in Christmas in Connecticut). Ooh, maybe I’ll watch the movie and blog about that.