Home-Made Ranch Dressing & Dry Mix

We use Ranch a LOT in our house, so I was searching for a recipe to make my own (figured it would be a lot cheaper!).. anywho..  I found a few of them and decided to go with this one.  I found it here at The Crafty Blog Stalker.

You will need...
Black Pepper ¼ C
Parsley Flakes 1 1/2 C
Garlic Salt ½ C
Kosher Salt 2 T
Granulated Garlic ¼ C
Granulated Onion 3/4 C
Dill Weed 2 T

When you mix all of those together you have the dry ranch mix from the store, only you KNOW what is in this one! :)
 I keep mine in a cleaned out peanut butter container.

Here is the recipe to make ranch dressing with the dry mix from above...

You will need..
Mayonnaise  2 cups
Buttermilk  2 cups
Sour Cream 1½  cups
Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon
Dry Mix 2 Tablespoons

Mix all together in a large bowl.  I then dumped mine into a reused coffee creamer container. 
It is best stored in the fridge for 2 hours before you use it.

Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark

I found this recipe on Pinterest awhile back and pinned it for Christmas goodies.  The time has finally come!

This was YUMMY!  Will FOR SURE be made again, and NOT just for the Christmas season! :)

Here is the link I use for the recipe...

Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark

Though mine looked NOTHING like the pictures that they have posted.

I changed the recipe a little bit.. just because I thought this was better... the following has my adjustments made to it :)

 enough pretzels to cover a jellyroll pan

2 sticks of butter (1 cup total)

1 cup of brown sugar

1 1/2 bags of chocolate chips (I mixed it up and did a bag of chocolate and 1/2 a bag of butterscotch)

 parchment paper

 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees..

 

Cover the jellyroll pan with a piece of parchment paper..

Cover paper with pretzels..

 

In a medium saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar until the sugar is dissolved..

Let it boil on a lower heat till it is thickened..

Remove from heat and pour onto pretzels.

 

Place pan in oven for about 5 mins..

 (this helps spread out the caramel topping to "cover" the pretzels)

 

Take out of the oven..

Put the chocolate chips over the pretzels & caramel..

Put back in oven for about a min.

 

Take out of oven and spread chocolate so it is flattened.

 

Place in freezer till caramel is hardened..

 (It only took about an hour for mine)

 

When ready, take out of oven..

 

Break into pieces and enjoy!