Mandy and Jace

I have a love/hate relationship with candy. I love it so much I eat it until I get sick or inhale way too many calories. My favorite candies are M&Ms, 3 Musketeer Bars and my ultimate favorite are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The one thing I like more than Reese’s however are homemade peanut butter bars. They are like Reese’s but so much better. My mom used to make these every once in a while and I loved them!

The recipe is actually pretty easy. The only difficult part is getting the chocolate to the right consistency without burning it. Just pay careful attention when you are making them and you should be fine.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
adapted from What A Dish!

1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
1 packet whole graham crackers, crushed into fine crumbs
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
2 tablespoons butter

In the bowl of a stand mixer or a large with a hand mixer combine the 2 sticks of butter, graham crackers, confectioner’s sugar and crunchy peanut butter. Mix until it is totally worked together and fluffy. Press into a greased 9×13 pan and set aside.

In a medal or glass bowl set on top of simmering (not boiling) water melt the chocolate chips, creamy peanut butter and butter together. Stirring occasionally. It should be easy to pour but not burned.

Pour it onto the graham cracker crust and spread over the entire crust.

Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving and store, covered in the fridge if you happen to have any left.

Happy Monday all! Hope everyone had a great weekend. I know we did! We spent our weekend with friends and family, eating and playing. Saturday morning we got up and went to the farmer’s market then worked around the house. Sunday we BBQed and relaxed.

I love summer time but I think I’m ready for fall. It’s way too hot and I want to be outside! I got a glimpse of it last night. It was actually cool enough to sit outside and read. I can’t wait until we can do that more often!

Here’s my plan for this week’s meals.
Tonight: Steak and a veggie medley
Tuesday: BBQ chicken with home-made BBQ sauce (made by my amazing husband) and lemon thyme rice
Wednesday: Roasted turkey and pesto sliders with chips

Happy eating!

Well, my birthday was great, but not at all what I expected. Last week on Tuesday night Jace came in and asked me to go to Ft. Worth with him. After a lot of phone calls and trying to get things worked out we loaded up the truck and left on Wednesday. We had a great time!



My awesome husband got me a new pair of shoes that I might never take off. They are so pretty! We had several beautiful dinner dates and We came back Saturday night so I can spend my actual birthday on Sunday with my family and church family. All in all it was a great birthday week!!!

I’m not doing a meal plan this week becasue I still have most of the food I planned to eat last week and didn’t get to because we went out of town. So we are just going to make do with what we have.

Happy Eating!

I realized the other day that I’ve had this website for over 5 years now. Our first post was January 3,2007 and we have done 310 posts since then. I know everyone is shocked that I stuck with something for that long. I normally take on a project, get bored and drop it. Surprise doubters, I actually did it!

In the midst of those glorious 310 posts I have put up 63 recipes. If you go back though them you can see my photography skills have gotten much better since we started. The photos were horrible at first. Also, in the beginning I was doing step by step photos. I decided that I was getting way too many burns from trying to cook and hold the camera so I became a slacker and went down to one good photo and the recipe.

This was my first recipe to be put up. It was baked chicken strips (I don’t think I’ve made them since I posted the recipe) and sweet potato fries (I make those all the time). Pretty ugly right?

I think I’ve definitely come a long way. Here are some of my favorite recipes that I’ve put up. You can just click on any of the recipe titles and it will take you to the recipe.

Chicken and Waffles

Jace actually put this one up. We dont’ eat this often because shortly after that I started counting calories and almost passed out when I found out the count on this one, but it is delicious if you’re not concerned with calories.

Zucchini Carbonara

I actually forgot about this recipe. It was delicious!

Pumpkin Pie

This is where I learned to take a photo. And the crowds rejoice!

This pumpkin pie is SO good! I love pumpkin pie and I could probably clean this one up all by myself.

Potato Cakes

If you haven’t made these yet you should go home and make them right now. They will blow your mind!

Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

I make these when I need a new pair of shoes. Of course, I always need a new pair of shoes.