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For those of you who are not familiar with Crocktober like myself, yes it is true, Crocktober is real. If you love crock pot cooking join in the fun of discovering new recipes. After researching, I stumbled across a very interesting site filled with a variety of recipes: A year of Slow Cooking, crockpot365.blogspot.com. Written by Stephanie O’Dea who is a New York Times best selling author, award-winning blogger, and mother of three. Although I have not tried any of these recipes, I am very anxious to try them and the recipes appear to be very easy and with common ingredients for the everyday family looking for ways to entice your family’s taste buds. Check it out!
We are definitely in the fall season and if you haven’t already done so its time to fire up your cooking pots for your favorite comfort foods. Range Kleen offers both Stainless Steel Cookware and Enamel Coated Cast Iron Cookware. Try heating things up by placing the Range Kleen Enameled Coated Cast Iron Dutch Oven over a fire. (Don’t worry all you have to do is wipe off the soot and it will be good as new.), great for Chili nights outside when your relaxing by the fire.

Range Kleen also the exclusive North American Partner for Berndes Cookware which offers a fabulous line of cookware great for any type of comfort food. The cookware line to tie in most with your heart warming dishes is the Signocast-Milestone line. With great pieces such as: Dutch Ovens, Casserole vessels both in square and round, Stock Pots, and a covered Oval Multi Purpose Roaster in different sizes.

This treat is easy and there’s nothing too it. If you need something simple and feeds a lot of guests, this is the perfect snack for you. Great for joining the family for a fun project together.

All you need is:
An oven set to 200 Degrees
Wax Paper over Cookie Sheets (Depending on # of guests you will need 2-3 sheets)
Bite Size Pretzels (you may prefer to use pretzels shaped in circles or Pretzel Grids)
Your favorite chocolate such as Rolo’s, or Hershey’s kisses
Top off with your favorite M & M or Reese’s Pieces.

Tips: Preparation time can be longer if you don’t peel off individual wrappers first. Because once you get started it’s a pretty fast paced project. Cut down time by spreading all of your pretzels and inserting chocolate into the pretzels on your cookie sheets. But only insert one cookie sheet at a time and allow yourself 3-4 minutes between to allow you time for smushing.

Directions:
Set oven to the temperature 200 degrees. Tear wax paper to fit cookie sheets. Lay out pretzel rings on wax paper; insert kiss or rolo in center of pretzel. Bake in oven for 3-4 minutes, just enough to soften the chocolate. Once softened take the M & M or Reese’s piece and smash down on top of chocolate so that the chocolate fills in the whole ring or open area of the pretzel. Then place cookie sheet in refrigerator or freezer for at least 15- 20 minutes to harden. Repeat process till desired amount.

After chocolate has hardened remove cookie sheet from freezer/ refrigerator, peel off treat from wax paper and serve.

This is a great treat for football gatherings around the tube, Halloween parties, Christmas parties, or any Holiday gathering. If you check your local stores they offer seasonal colors of M & M’s. For example: Christmas: red and green, Easter: pastel colors, Valentines Day: pink and red. You can get pretty creative and themed.

For example for a Halloween party I used Rolo’s topped off with Reese’s pieces to incorporate fall colors. You can do the same at Christmas for example Hershey’s kisses with red or green M & M’s.

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Americans join in the celebration of German Holidays all across the United States. Starting off the month of October, families celebrated Oktoberfest. Today marks the anniversary known as the Day of German Unity in Germany. Today is a very important day for Germans to celebrate the coming together to create one single government in Germany.

Let Range Kleen help you celebrate the day of unity with Germany. Range Kleen has taken over the distribution of Berndes Cookware here in the United States. Berndes is a Cookware Line produced from Germany with a very high quality performance for any type of cook. With several lines of fantastic cookware , Berndes offers versatility to accommodate the majority of stoves.  Go to the Range Kleen Home Page and click on the Berndes Logo located on the bottom of the page to take you directly to the Berndes website to view all cookware pieces. Or you can also go to www.berndes-cookware.com to find a cookware line that best suites you and your families’ lifestyle. Berndes is geared towards healthy cooking. If  you are an innovative cooker and like to cook outside of the box, look for the upcoming Pearl Cookware line.  The Pearl Collection is an eye catching color guaranteed to be wowed.

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Falling into Place
Get your home in order for fall by preparing for cold weather. You can start by making a maintenance checklist day.
Start by shutting off the Air conditioning if you haven’t already done so. Open up the windows and get some fresh air circulating. If your house has vents make sure to sweep up and clean out any dust or particles that may have accumulated over the summer. Next, time to change the air filters in your furnace; depending on the area you live in you may want to consider replacing more or less. Replacing your air filters 1-3 months is recommended if your home has dual forced air entry. Also if you have a fireplace it may be time for a chimney sweep. Replace batteries in smoke detectors and check your homes fire extinguisher once a year as those are only good up to 6-10 years. Outside of the home make sure to clean out your gutters now while it’s a little warmer so you don’t have a problem come winter time. Disconnect water hoses from outside faucets and shut off any valves connected to the outside to prevent freezing. Be sure to empty out any unused fuel in seasonal equipment that will not be used during winter such as lawn mowers, weed eaters etc. This will prevent fuel clogging in the equipments lines.

These are just few tips to mention to keep your home on track.

For more information:
Learningcenter.statefarm.com/residence/maintenance/fall-maintenance-tips-for-your-home/