As a young child I craved the sauce in the Hershey’s can. This sauce is most like that wonderful sauce. It is without question in my arsenal, cheap, good, easy and wonderfully retro!

• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 cup water
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

Find a 2 quart saucepan. In ti mix the cocoa and water with a whisk. Heat the chocolate water over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Add the sugar and continue to stir until the sugar dissolves. Bring the mixture to a full rolling boil. Reduce the heat to medium low and boil for three minutes. Remove the syrup from heat and add the salt and vanilla.

Let it cool for a few minutes, then pour it in a pint size jar, or a an old chocolate sauce bottle and refrigerate.

This sauce is Sconicle’s favorite sauce. I wish I could claim credit but I think I got it from Tipnut.

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My life has been hectic, as well as every other family out there during summer. Tuesday we finally turned on the Air Conditioning. Our heat index was not something I even wanted to know. Once it hit 91 in the coolest room in our house on Sunday Hubby decided money is only money. Our peace and happiness needed A/C, in other words we both wimped out. Even with the attic fan there was no getting around Central Texas heat.

Which brings me to the big reason why I didn’t post! Heat makes you think web browsing and writing on a hot machine is just not appealing. The kids would get on, I did for about 15 minutes every couple of days. Even checking my email was taxing.

Our plans will continue this summer, painting and removing the last two rooms of carpet. Dunk and Hubby are working together at his work. Dunk has figured out all the times I tried to explain why Dad was tired he really was tired. Gator is working the auction barn and will do grain work for the grainery once corn starts coming in July. Sconicle is doing animal feeding for extra money.

Next week I am going to Sam’s and doing my long term shopping, I can hardly wait! Finally I can shop! Tomorrow I will do my list, Monday I will price it, then I hope to go on Tuesday. My plan is to go to Salado for a creek swim as a reward for all those hot days, then Sam’s.

Today I will share with you a recipe I used for Sloppy Joes.

2 lbs ground meat, I use ground round, but it could be turkey or even regular hamburger.

1/4 C. onion minced fine

1/4 C green pepper minced fine(optional)

1 tsp. Garlic Powder

2 tsp. yellow mustard

1 1/2 C Ketchup

2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar

1 Tsp Salt

1/2 tsp. pepper

1/2 C salsa (optional)

Brown your meat, onion and pepper. Drain the grease. Stir in remaining ingredients, and simmer for 30 minutes. This is supposed to make 12 servings, in our family I am lucky to get eight out of it.

This recipe was taken from a site called 30 Day Gourmet. I had trouble getting every recipe there so as I found one I printed it. Here is a link to the main page.

Tomorrow a cheap chocolate sauce you can make yourself!

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