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Tag: peanut butter
Simple Joy Saturday #2
Every Saturday, I share three simple things that brought me happiness during the week. These posts may grow or evolve as time passes. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section!
1. The Kindle App
Current favorite: the Ivy Malone Series
2. This shipment I received from Blind Spot Nutbutters
3. Hanging out with college friends
Since I don’t have any photos of us hanging out this week, here is a link to the bad lip reading video that we laughed over.
What were the simple joys in your life this week?
Blind Spot Nutbutters Monthly Recipe: It’s a Zoo in My Lunchbox
From January to April, I was a student teacher at a local elementary school.
In my last month of student teaching, I made a list of the many reasons that I was eager to finish:
- I will have time to blog again.
- I will have time for photography again.
- I will have time to run again.
- I will have time to bake again.
- I will have more time. Period.
Cookies and Cream Frozen Yogurt (Blind Spot Monthly Recipe Series)
Gooey Coconut Bars {Blind Spot Monthly Recipe Series}
Carrot Cake Bites {Blind Spot Monthly Recipe}
This is Katy Bunny, the loyal rabbit that I stuffed at Build-A-Bear Workshop when I was 5 years old.
Squirrely Tail No-bake Cookies (Blind Spot Monthly Series)
When I played soccer, my coach developed a list of foods that were not allowed to pass through any player’s lips.
- Soda
- Chocolate
- Fried Foods
- Hamburgers
- Pork
- Condiments
- Milkshakes
- Cake
- Etc.
The diet started around the second week of March (and it literally felt like a DIEt). By the third week of March, I was always craving something that tasted “off-limits.” It was around this time that I first made peanut butter no-bake cookies.
I am not saying that these cookies are healthy, but they do not contain any of the “forbidden foods.” In high school, they quickly became a favorite snack for my entire soccer team.
In preparation for the Blind Spot feature for March, I slightly tweaked the cookie recipe from high school to compliment my favorite nut butter: Squirrely Tail!
Ingredients
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup Blindspot Squirrelly Tail blended nut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups rolled oats
Directions
- In a large saucepan, mix sugar, margarine, and milk.
- Bring to a full, rolling boil (large bubbles that you can’t stir down) over medium heat.
- Remove from heat and stir in nut butter and vanilla until nut butter is melted.
- Stir in oats.
- Working quickly, drop spoonfuls of cookie batter onto waxed paper. (Tip: if you don’t work quickly enough, you can crumble the batter to make granola.)
- Let cool.
- Eat and enjoy!
