The madness continues! Today's Hanukkah gift is another $100 gift certificate to the bookstore of your choice! That ought to buy enough books to last you about a week, right? Maybe 10 days?
Just leave a comment with a link or recipe for your favorite snack to eat while you're reading.
My favorite cookie: Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies, one of the “Best of” from Martha Stewart Living Magazine. A bit more labor intensive than other cookie recipes, but I make them every year as a gift for Hubby, at his request. They are amazing with milk or tea, and a book to read. I cannot wait to find out your favorite snack while reading! Share share!
All the delicious disclaimers apply. I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited, and must be over 18 eating bonbons to win. Animal print pants are always out of control. Substantial penalty for early withdrawal. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas and Happy Week Before New Year's! Let's snack!
I’m a tea drinker as well and I think j.c.‘s ginger milk tea will become my new favorite -I love ginger, and need the black tea component to keep me awake so I can finish the book.
Sour cream pound cake, based on this recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/rec…
Pretzel Turtles!
Ingredients
20 small mini pretzels
20 chocolate covered caramel candies
20 pecan halves
Directions
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
Arrange the pretzels in a single layer on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Place one chocolate covered caramel candy on each pretzel.
Bake for 4 minutes. While the candy is warm, press a pecan half onto each candy covered pretzel. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
Heavenly!
This time of year I like to drink egg nog and eat dark chocolate while I read.
I love Anzac Biscuits, chewy of course, they are great with a cup of tea.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipe…
My favorite snack would be anything with chocolate! 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway. I like a piece of candy or cookie while reading.
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Roasted seaweed. I get the pressed sushi sheets and then tear off bits as a snack.
Yeah, I’m weird like that.
http://tinyurl.com/86lo4w9 Honey Nut Scooters, for when you’re both broke and have a delicate stomach precluding most junk food items.
I used to love my Moms butter cookies which we made for our whole family! We all spent Christmas eve at my Italian granma’s with her 7 sons and families! My Mom had an old squeeze machine that made all kinds of Xmas shapes! I always looked forward to baking with my Mom who was a great cook! I am a terrible baker and I have yet to taste a cookie as goo as hers! Once in awhile I’ll pass cookies baking and think of her and all the happy memories of those days spending time together, just she and I! A lot of family is gone but the memories are still there!
eggnog and/or toffee-chocolate-cracker-candy.
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Hot Mocha made with GOOD dark chocolate!!!
Toffee squares. Kind of like Tollhouse cookies, but with more butter, and no eggs.
anything chocolate!
One of my favorite treats is strawberry cheesecake ice cream: http://www.bluebunny.com/Produ…
My favorite snack to eat while reading is Vienna Fingers http://www.keebler.com/product…
Quarterback Crunch ice cream from Baskin Robins. Only available during the football season, which is good or I would weigh 800 lbs.
Congou Lychee tea from http://www.seattleteacup.com!
Hmmm… if I’m in a salty mood, then my favorite would be popcorn (made the old-fashioned way on the stove) with lots of butter and salt. If I’m in a sweet mood, then it would be gingerbread cookies (recipe from a book, no link) that are covered in tons of icing.
I get my calories in liquid form when I’m reading… so Red Bull or Jack Daniels Downhome Punch, depending on whether my book is naughty or nice. 🙂
I love to have my tea while I read, either Darjeeling or Lady Grey.
Hmmm, I like to eat any kind of dark chocolate and a cherry coke when I read, but sometimes I will eat cheese and crackers or clementines if I feel the need to be a little more healthy
Here’s my new favorite snack (and not just when reading): http://www.kingarthurflour.com…
My favorite snack while reading is microwave popcorn with old bay seasoning on top. No link need for that one. Easy as pie. Well easier really.
I enjoy some hot tea with honey in the winter. Not to exciting but hopefully whatever I’m reading is.
I try not to snack while reading because finding the bottom of the bag in the middle of a good scene is just not fun. Not only am I distracted from a good scene by the dismay of NO MORE SNACKS but the despair of I ATE THE WHOLE THING. AGAIN.
But, when I do indulge, it tends to be salty snacks like chips or nuts or popcorn. I don’t dare go near cookies while reading. Recently I ended up reading at the dinner table after I had finished eating and there was a platter of cookies and other delights my sis in law had made for us for the holidays and on there were a bunch of chocolate covered pretzels on it too, which are of my favorite things and do you know? I have no idea where they all went! Some gremlin must have stolen them or something!
Can I just say that I am loving all the recipes you guys are posting – I’m going to try out some new snacks soon!!!
I love Hanukkah.
My favorite snack to eat while reading: Chocolate. Luckily for me, it’s readily available!
Dark chocolate M&Ms and hot tea. I squirrel the M&Ms away in my dresser so the kids can’t find ‘em and eat ‘em… 😀 http://www.mms.com/us/about/pr…
Sugar cookies and Irish Breakfast Tea are what’s doing it for me this week! Mmmm. 100 dollars, that would last at least 5 days !
A new favorite…Cinnamon rolls…
http://thepioneerwoman.com/coo…
My favorite snack is Chex Mix (Bold Version, add a can of Smokehouse Almonds). Alas, this is also a food over which I have No Control—I could eat a whole bowl in one reading session! So I only have it in the house over Christmas (when I have no time to read!)
My favorite snack for reading is popcorn. I use a crank handled popper on the stovetop. Much tastier than microwaved and no scary chemical ingredient list. Then I melt a little butter and honey together to drizzle over the top. Yum – salty, sweet and crunchy. Excuse me, I’ve got to go into the kitchen now…
Hmm. I don’t usually snack while reading. I read a lot of library books so I don’t want to spill on them.
My roomie and I are planning on making these: http://www.marthastewart.com/3… for a late Christmas snack, though.
This is one of my favorites.
Puppy Chow
Ingredients:
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
9 cups Crispix cereal (any flavor)
3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions:
1. Combine peanut butter, butter and chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl.
2. Microwave for one minute then stir to blend all ingredients thoroughly. Add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Stir well.
3. Place the 9 cups of Crispix cereal in a very large bowl.
4. Pour the peanut butter-chocolate mixture over the cereal and toss evenly, making sure all the cereal gets a good covering.
5. Place the powdered sugar in a large zip-lock type plastic bag.
6. Add the peanut butter-chocolate cereal mixture to the bag, leaving enough room for the puppy chow to be shaken (you may have to divide the mixture into smaller batches, coating one batch at a time).
7. Shake the bag vigorously to evenly coat each piece of the puppy chow with powdered sugar.
8. Once the mixture is fully coated, place in a large serving bowl.
9. Coat any additional pieces by shaking the mixture in the powdered sugar filled bag. Add powdered sugar to the bag as needed until all the mixture is coated.
I don’t really have one go-to snack but I do like having coffee or chai lattes when I read.
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I am a Cheetoes whore!!!
Anything I can eat one handed! Bars of dark chocolate are the best, especially if I have a glass of wine to go with it
I like a hot tea or a hot toddy.
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I love Ben & Jerry’s peach cobbler or late night snack. But usually I get really engrossed in my book and the ice cream ends up melting.
My favorite thing while reading is a cup of coffee! If any of you other readers have a Keurig, I highly recommend the Golden French Toast coffee cups!!