Snow, birthday and Super Bowl

We've had a rather pleasant weekend here at the CO Lidh establishment. After Thursday evening's storm that lasted well into Friday evening. We ended up with just over 12" at our house. We've heard reports around various parts of Falcon anywhere from 7-13". A town, Calhan, which is I think about 20 miles northeast of here on hwy 24 got 22". Yikes! No one did much traveling around which was good. Not as many accidents as usual during inclement weather. Not that there weren't some really bad ones. Denver got wallopped with a good 20" as well. Most folks were happy to get the moisture as we've been so super dry!

Kevin worked from home both Thursday and Friday. Thursday was scheduled and Friday was due to the weather and road closures.

We had Michael's birthday cake yesterday but his actual birthday isn't until tomorrow. We celebrated by going to Hu Hot for dinner and it. was. AWESOME! We are definitely going back there.

Have a couple of recipes to put on here since I like having some of my recipes in more than one place if they are a hit with the family. :)

Potato-cheddar-beer soup:

SO easy. Melt 2 TBS butter in a large pot. Mix in one pouch of instant potato flakes(usually a box comes with two). Stir in one can chicken broth 4 drops tabasco sauce, and 1/4 cup of beer. I used lager. Then finally mix in between 1 1/2 and 2 cups shredded cheese. I actually used cheddar-jack today. Simmer for a good 15 minutes and enjoy. Kevin really likes it and again, SO easy to make.

Hot & spicy chicken legs:

Put 10-12 legs in crockpot and put little cubes of butter all over the pieces. About 1/3 cup total. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and garlic and onion powder, no set amount here, just sprinkle to taste to your liking. Sprinle cumin powder, smoked paprika and roasted ginger powder. Put little bits of dark brown sugar all over the pieces, about 1/3 cup total, and then sprinkle 1/4  cup hot sauce over it all. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours.

Happy cresent rolls:

Open 2 cans of Pilsbury cresent rolls and spread them out on cookies sheets. Mix together 1/2-1 cup cream cheese, grated mozzarella cheese, 1TBS chopped green chili or a chopped jalopeno pepper, and browned sausage(I use turkey sausage). Spoon mixture onto cresent rolls and roll up. Cook by the instructions on the cans.