Puppy Chow

This is my favorite and a great party hit for any age, I promise. It's also pretty neat for like a cookie bake or for holiday parties.

12 oz Crispex or crispy hexagons XD (some people like to use rice chex)
1 C Peanut Butter
2 C (12 oz) Semisweet Chocolate chips
1/4 C (1 stick) Butter (or margarine if you like fakey stuff)
Powdered sugar (almost a full normal-sized bag)

Melt the peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butter together. Put the crispex into a grocery bag/large pale (ice cream pale works well) and pour the melted mixture over the cereal. Shake/stir it up (shaking is easier) until all the cereal is coated. Start adding powdered sugar gradually and shaking until all the pieces are covered with powdered sugar. There ya go...you're finally able to eat it!

Oriental Salad

Ok I found this in a church cookbook, and I think my grandma had made it for a family gathering (or something similar). The author of this one was "Ann in the English Department at University of California, Irvine, on page 77 of the St Joseph's Parish Cookbook: Heavenly Scents of an unknown year.

Salad ingredients
1/2 head chunked cabbage
1 pkg ramen noodles (this recommends chicken flavor)
2 T toasted sesame seeds
1/2 C toasted slivered almonds
3-4 minced green onions

Dressing:
3 T sugar
3 T vinegar
1/2 C oil
1/4 t pepper
1/2 t salt (or to taste, imo)
Flavoring pkt from ramen noodles

Combine and shake well. Crumble ramen noodles. Mix dressing and chill. Just before serving, combine cabbage, ramen, sesame seeds, almonds, and onions. Add dressing last.

My grandma had toasted the ramen noodles as well, btw.