No-Bake Cookies

I have always loved No-Bake Cookies. There's just something about them that make my mouth water. So, I thought I'd post my favorite No-Bake Cookie recipe:

No-Bake Cookies

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp Butter
2 Tbsp Cocoa
1/2 c Milk
2 c Sugar1 tsp Vanilla
1/2 tsp Salt
3/4 c Crunchy Peanut Butter
2 c Oatmeal

Directions:

Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Stir in cocoa, milk, and sugar. Stir to melt ingredients together. Bring to a boil that spans the whole surface of the mixture (rather than just the edges). Remove from heat. **allowing the mixure to boil for even a few minutes will completely dry out the cookies and leave you with nothing more than chocolatey granola. Believe me. It's happened to me before*** Stir in vanilla, salt, peanut butter, and oatmeal until well mixed. Stir until mixture has thickened a bit. Scoop heaping spoonfuls onto wax paper and allow to cool.

Makes about 2 dozen.



**This recipe was found and quoted from: http://mymuffinthursdays.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-bake-cookies.html

For the Love of Books

I've been MIA a bit lately, but I have a good reason. We moved just a week or so into May, my hubby has started Summer Semester, and my little Moonpie has been ill. However, I do have some fun things to blog about.

So, I'll start with books. I'm not sure how many out there are readers, but I love books. I like how they feel when I hold them. I love the weight of them in my hand. I love the stories and places they take me to. I love the smell of them (as long as they're not library books). I love they way they look on bookshelves or if they have a great cover. I love everything about books--I'm a bit of a bibliophile.

And I have a special love/hate relationship with books that pull me deeply into their story, the sort of books that are so good I have a hard time putting them down. You might be wondering, why I say I have a love/hate relationship with these books. Well, I love these books for obvious reasons. I love a book that can draw me into the story no matter how many times I put it down. When I'm doing something else and see it out of the corner of my eye and I automatically want to flip to where I was and continue reading it again. During any free moment I have (waiting between batches of cookies) I'm back in the book seeing what's going to happen next. And when the story finally comes to an end I feel both satisfied and yet sad that it's finished.

However, I hate these books because when I get drawn into books like this I tend to slack on other things like housework or often dinner will be a little late (because I had to read 'just one more chapter'). And I hate feeling like I didn't do anything during the day. And sometimes while I'm reading the book I think--"I really should be doing something else," which takes away some of the enjoyment. Thus, my love/hate relationship.

That said I will be sharing books I read: books I love, books I didn't, and everything in between.