Too Hot to Cook! No Bake Time!

It has been a long time, right?!  Wow.  Didn't realize how long its been since I posted.  I have eaten, mind you.  Just didn't blog about it!  :P   Anywhooo, here in NY we've experienced a wicked week of heat.  So so hot the air conditioner doesn't even seem to be taking the edge off.  Add that to my horrible PMS and my craving for chocolate and it's just a killer combo.  I had asked my friend SiggySpice from Tasty Kitchen if she had a recipe for the most chocolatey-gooiest chocolate cake she'd ever seen.  She delighted me with a recipe I'm going to make once the heat backs off a bit but until then - what's a violent PMS'ing girl to do?  NO BAKES!

So I searched Tasty Kitchen and found this recipe from Karly Campbell.  No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars.  I'll let you wipe your chin off now.  Go ahead.  I'll wait.  Yeah.  They were the AWESOME.  I have a natural fondness for no bake chocolate cookies anyways.  My dad used to make them for us from his mom's recipe like every other week when we were kids.  Yeah, dad, not mom.  "Fryer of bologna sammies at 2 am and peanut butter bread slices with spaghetti Dad" made the best no bake cookies anywhere.  He even made the non-chocolate peanut butter butterscotch version and they were killer.  I remember sheets upon sheets of wax paper around the counters with blobs of oatmealy goodness on them.  LOL  Anyways, Karly's recipe took me *right* back to being next to dad helping him drop spoonfulls of molten oatmeal to cool.  These are so, so easy to make.  And the peanut butter chocolate center?  Don't get me started on that.  I could go on for hours!  Try them yourself on a hot day!

<--- Photo by Karly, taken from Tasty Kitchen.  Go check it!  Do eet! 




COMING SOON - my wicked easy, 3 item only alfredo recipe.  Tired of seeing all these "healthy" versions.  That's not original.  That's not how it's supposed to be.  Don't fear the butter!  Use it!