![]() It tastes just like it should – buttery, salty and oh so crunchy. You see, I’m friends with her daughters on Facebook (they were my childhood babysitters, after all) and so after more than ten years of longing for it, finally hit them up for the recipe. It has been years since I’ve had the opportunity to taste Eleanor’s Chex Mix. When the internet arrived, the music industry changed and the business eventually disappeared. Competition over that bag of Chex Mix was fierce and my mom would often resort to hiding it and doling out small portions in Dixie cups. She always included Cheerios, generous amounts of mixed nuts (the brazil nuts were always my favorite to pick out) and Fritos. Thing was, this was no ordinary Chex Mix. Along side, there was always a zip top bag, filled to bursting with her deeply toasted Chex Mix. There would be a divided holiday plate, heaped high with homemade caramels (both regular and chocolate), sugar cookies and a tidily wrapped loaf of sweet nut bread. My sister and I looked forward to the arrival of Eleanor’s goodie bag every year. One of the ways in which Eleanor displayed her holiday fervor was through the annual giving of food packages to her friends and family. She was an old friend of my parents and was hard working, honest and just happened to love Christmas (though I don’t think it was a pre-requisite, it sure helped you survive in a workplace where holiday music played nine months of the year). Thus, a distribution company was born and soon they were distributing thousands of titles to book stores, gift shops and card stores all across the country.Īs they worked to create a business around the album, a woman named Eleanor joined the company. The only problem they faced was that once they had finished creating the album, there wasn’t any way to get it into the hands of the broader public. Lewis played all various parts on his many guitars and my dad did the recording and designed the packaging. ![]() So Lewis and my dad made an album (and truly, back in those days it was actually an album, on vinyl and everything) called Collection of Favourite Christmas Carols. But no matter how hard you looked, it was nearly impossible to find lovely, instrumental Christmas music. There was plenty of the big band and pop stuff, as well as organ and choir music. Back in the early eighties, there wasn’t much in the way of instrumental Christmas music. It was mostly instrumental music and it all started with a Christmas album that my dad and his friend Lewis made. We call it Crunchy Savory People Treats.For most of my childhood, my parents had a small business that produced and distributed music. She called it, "Texas Trash." It features pecans, jalapeño and chipotle Tabasco sauce. To round things out, Marylinda bakes Gluten Free meringue cookies using the eggs from the hens that keep the grasshoppers at bay (Crunchy People Treats), and a lightly spicy Chex(r) Mix variation worked out over 30 years with her late Mother-in-Law Patsy Jones. We produce edible and ornamental flowers, receiving a Florist license to sell flowers grown on premise in 2021. In 2020, we became a Texas licensed Animal Food Processor turning pasture raised, restaurant quality chicken feet and paws into healthy pet treats. In the past three years, Our Farmlet started with high quality fruit, berries, and produce. Our Farmlet strives to have something to eat for people and something in bloom for pollinators all year. Our Farmlet is a venture between Marylinda Jones who grows and packages everything and husband Steve who runs the tractor, loads compost, tills the beds and cooks a lot of dinners. It is one of many new small "Farms" that have made Collin County a nationwide leader in the formation of new agricultural enterprises. Our Farmlet is a small acreage West of Anna in Collin County.
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