Pretzel Chicken Strips

1/2 cup honey

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless, chicken strips

2 1/2 cups crushed pretzels

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In small bowl, combine honey and mustard. Mix well. 

Dip chicken strips in honey mixture, 

dredge chicken in pretzel crumbs, place on baking sheet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
Repeat process on remaining chicken.  Discard unused honey mustard mixture.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.  Makes 6 servings.

When I see pretzels, I always think of the pretzel sellers on the streets in New York.  I would like to try one of those pretzels, but I saw a story on TV where they tested the carts, and the result was not good.  It was full of things I don't want to eat.

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Pretzel Toffee

Pretzel Toffee

1 (9 ounce) bag tiny twist pretzels
1 cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 (12 ounce) package plus 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Cover a 15x10 inch baking pan with aluminum foil.

Arrange pretzels in bottom of the pan, in a single layer.

In large saucepan, melt butter over medium high heat.  Add brown sugar. Mix well.  Bring to a boil.  Boil 2 minutes.  Do not over cook; it will be hard to pour and cover the pretzels with the brown sugar mixture if you do.

Carefully pour brown sugar mixture over pretzels.  

Bake 10 minutes.  Remove carefully from the oven.

Sprinkle chocolate chips over top.

Let stand 5 minutes. Spread chocolate smooth.

Cool.  Refrigerate 1 hour. Peel aluminum foil away from toffee.

Break into pieces.

At Christmas I saw several recipes for Saltine Toffee.  Pam of Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner, posted her recipe for it in December.  It must be a Midwestern thing, because not only did my mom make Saltine Toffee, but my grandmother and my great grandmother also made it.

Our friends Fareed and Annette (owners of Passion Radio Network) gave my husband Stan and I a couple of nights at the Strater Hotel for Christmas.  While we were there we went to a little candy shop and had Pretzel Toffee.  My husband and I both loved it, so when I got home I changed my recipe for Saltine Toffee to Pretzel Toffee.  

Annette and Fareed

Right after Christmas, Fareed fell outside of the radio station and broke his leg in two places.  He had surgery to place a rod in his leg and it has been a long road to recovery for Fareed.  He is missed around the radio station.  Going in to record my shows is just not the same without him there.

Fareed loves chocolate; so to help him feel better, I made a batch of Pretzel Toffee for him yesterday and today I am going to drop it by and check on him.  Please keep Fareed and his wife Annette in your prayers.

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