Homemade Refrigerator Pickles - Bread & Butter

We absolutely love pickles in our house and I was amazed at how amazing these turned out.  You don't even have to buy special pickling cucumbers, regular cucumbers work fantastic!

Ingredients

• 8 cups of cucumbers, sliced
• 1 sweet onion, diced
• 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cup white vinegar
• 1 1/2 tsp celery seed
• 1 1/2 tsp mustard seed
• 4 pint jars

I used 2-3 tsp pickling spices because I didn't have the celery and mustard seed.

Directions

• Toss the cucumbers, onion and salt in a large bowl.
• Combine the sugar, vinegar.
• Divide the spices evenly in the 4 jars, then divide evenly and add the cucumbers/onions to each jar.
• Pour the sugar/vinegar mix evenly into each jar, leaving 1/2-1 inch head space.
• Refrigerate a minimum of 8 hours (several days or a week is awesome)

Healthier Rice Krispie Treats

I saw these Gluten Free Rice Krispies in the clearance section at the store the other day, just so happened I had a coupon so I decided to grab them.  I haven't made Rice Krispie Treats in a long time!  I got home it just didn't seem right to add a bunch of marshmallows to these "healthier" Rice Krispies.  I did a quick Google search and figured out what I was going to do.

• 1/2 cup raw honey
• 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
• 5 cups gluten free Rice Krispies

Melt the honey and peanut butter in a pan and then add the cereal, toss until coated and press into greased (buttered) 9x13 baking dish.  Chill for 1 hour then they are ready to eat!  Yum!