Good food, bad food

Stephen is really good at posting about meaningful endeavors and issues, however, it's my self-appointed job to make posts about nonsignificant things.



Good food ideas:

• If you make rice krispies treats and you have too many to eat try breaking some up into a bowl and then pouring milk on top. It's delicious and tastes just like the Rice Krispies Treats cereal they used to sell. MMMMmmmm!



• Chocolate Grumbles. That is what Steve, his brother, and cousin named these oatmeal fudge bars. Don't ask me why they named them that, but they are a really good treat (sorry, no picture, but you're in luck! there's a recipe).

Oatmeal Fudge Bars from the Lion House
1 cup margarine
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
1 12 oz package chocolate chips
1/4 cup margarine
2 tsp vanilla



Preheat oven to 350. Grease 9x13x2 baking pan. Set aside. In large mixer bowl cream margarine and brown sugar; add eggs and vanilla. In a small bowl mix flour, baking soda, and salt; add to cramed mixture. Mix in oats. In heavy saucepan mix sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, and margarine and heat till just melted. Stir in vanilla. Spread 2/3 of the dough into prepared baking pan. Spread with chocolate mixture. Drop remaning 1/3 of dough on top by spoonfuls. Bake for 25 minutes. Cool, then cut into bars. Makes 36.




Bad food ideas

• Burritos from Rancheritos (used to be Betos). My mother-in-law was really generous and offered to take us out to eat when she was here. Steve and I wanted to go to Costa Vida but Steve's brother insisted on Rancheritos because their burritos are so huge. He obviously chose quantity over quality (100% quantity, 0% quality... luckily Steve didn't feel as strongly as I did so he finished mine).