Chuck
Wagon
Use
your favorite cookie or cake recipe and decorate them with
western flair - how about using inexpensive cookie cutters
to make hats or star-badges! Have a chili cook-off to find
the "Best Chili in the West" — start with our Trainin'
Wheels Chili recipe below.
Trail
Mix
Select
seven items from the list, toss and serve. One-half cup of each
produces a quart of can't-stop-snackin' eats.
- Round oat
cereal
- Wheat or
rice waffle square cereal
- Dried fruit:
apricots, cherries, cranberries
- Granola
- Mini chocolate
chips
- Mini pretzels
- Raisins
- Sunflower
seeds
Trainin'
Wheels Chili
- 1 pound ground
beef
- 6 small cans
of tomato sauce
- 2 cans of
chili beans
- 1 chopped
onion
- 1 packet
chili seasoning
- 1 or 2 tablespoons
black pepper
Fry the ground
beef with the onion and pepper. In another pot, mix the sauce and
beans with your chili seasoning and keep it stirred up. Add the
fried goodies to the sauce and beans and cook for about half an
hour. Serves four, more or less, depending on the number of hungry
cowpokes.
Cowpoke Party
Punch
- 2 quarts
ginger ale
- 1 12-oz can
frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups cranberry
juice
- Mix and stir.
Serves 10 or so.
Corn Doggies
Buy corn dogs,
rename them "doggies," heat, and serve.
