I like to blog for many reasons, but one reason I enjoy this process is that I love the idea of having many of my favorite recipes in one place. When I want to pull from the tried and true, I can go to the blog and find our family favorites.

Seems like now a days it is almost impossible to find the old, traditional recipes on the internet. Everyone is trying to make a traditional recipe their own and in the process, guess what? We lose tradition. The recipes end up representing some vague rendition of the early classic. Kathy and I feel strongly about food traditions around the table and when entertaining those we love. We want to add new and still enjoy the old.

By the time you are reading this blog, I will be “in the mountains” or “hiking the desert” with about 50 middle school and high school kids. Yep, it is our annual youth choir mission trip that we take each year just as school is out. This year we will be traveling to Colorado and New Mexico. Two buses bursting with adult sponsors, music and equipment and teenagers filled to the brim with energy. We go from dawn until the wee hours of the night for a week. The choir performs at a variety of venues and couples their talent with hours of mission work along the way. I have been “training” for the past few months. Walking, resting and preparing. My go to treat on this trip is homemade snack mix. I divide it up by the number of days and that is my treat or perhaps my breakfast on many an early morning. This is definitely my choir tour tradition.

Remember Old Fashioned Snack Mix? The original one that debuted in 1952 was on the box of the Chex cereal and from there history was created. There are still hundreds of variations on that original recipe and I would like to share my favorite version.