Kitchen Scissors Are A Must & Pretzel Nest Recipe
February 27th, 2008
Okay, absolutely everyone needs a pair of scissors or shears in their kitchen. I like kitchen shears as they are a little more heavy duty and tend not to migrate to other rooms in the house. No matter what you are doing right now, go out and buy a pair. Oh, you are reading my blog—well okay, when you are finished either go out and buy a pair or designate a pair you have in your home right now as kitchen scissors I am serious; they have so many uses in the kitchen.
•They can cut open the plastic on top of the pizza.
•If the plastic sacks from the store were tied in a knot rather than trying to undo the knot, reach for your handy dandy scissors.
•Cut the loose skin off poultry.
•Cut open the plastic in a box of cereal—I remember the day when opening a box of cereal wasn’t so complicated.
•Cut wrapping paper.
•Cut the packing tape off packages as that tape is always stronger than you.
•Cut flowers from the garden or the ends off the roses your sweetie sends you.
•Cut open a bag of M&M’s so they don’t go all over the floor.
Speaking of M&M’s here is a recipe I sort of copied from the peanut butter M&M’s wrapper (Ingredients are the same, method of making them is a little different):
Speckled Egg Pretzel Nests
•2 bags DOVE Brand Milk Chocolate Eggs (I have used chocolate chips before and they work just fine)
•4 cups pretzel sticks
•1 bag M&M Brand Peanut Butter Eggs
What to do:
1. Their recipe says to melt the chocolate over simmering water. I prefer the microwave method. Put the unwrapped chocolate in a microwavable bowl. On medium to high power (depending on your microwave) melt for 2 minutes, stir. If it is not completely melted repeat for 30 seconds to 1 minute more until the chocolate is melted. Do not burn it, burnt chocolate tastes bad and is icky.
2. Add 1 cup of pretzel sticks to the melted chocolate and stir carefully until the sticks are completely covered with melted chocolate. Add more sticks if there is too much chocolate per the amount of sticks.
3. Form small nests and place on waxed paper.
4. Repeat process until all the mixture is used.
5. Place in the refrigerator for approximately one hour, and then fill with M&M eggs.
So, now you have your scissors and a fun edible craft to make for Spring or Easter you are all set. Oh, you can tie a small ribbon or piece of fabric on the handle of your scissors so everyone will know they are to stay in the kitchen at all times.