Since my
recipe for no bakes got mentioned and I occasionally get calls asking how do I make them I thought I would through together the
recipe as well as some interesting factoids on their
development.
I started making them as a poor starving nursing student who had to ether eat at the hospital cafeteria or make his own. Not having had cooking lessons like Mom tried to do with you I ate the two things that I had learned to cook from my Mom, no bakes and Mac and Cheese with Velveeta cheese. I never made no bakes into cookies but had a
Pyrex 9x13 pan that I would grease and mash them into a big solid chunk and cut them into bars as I would eat them during the week. I figured that I was getting my veggies (chocolate) grains (oatmeal) and then would fix a hamburger or mac and Cheese for my starch and protein. When I first started dating your mother she asked what was my favorite cookie and outside of chocolate chip oatmeal raisin, no bakes was at the top of the list. So one day I get a package with crumbly light oatmeal covered in what looked like milk chocolate. You see your mom didn't have any dark baking chocolate but had Nestles quick and tried to make it using that as a replacement. I will say this that 1. because I
truly love your mother I ate them and 2. That is the only thing that she has made in the 35+ years that she has made things for me that I haven't totally enjoyed what she has cooked for me. I figure that isn't a bad record as she has cooked a lot of meals for me and you guys and they always seem to come out tasty. ( I would have never thought I would like tongue but I do)
Now how have I come upon the
recipe for No bakes, they came from a cook book the ladies of the Moose lodge put together in Quincy. I have tried to perfect it by changing from
Crisco to margarine, and ether use a thermometer or time the amount of time that they cook to get them "just right" The thermometer seems to work the best to avoid the too gooey stage but without a thermometer I cook the sugar,milk, margarine, salt, vanilla mixture for 3 minutes at medium boil. then add the dry ingredients and put onto waxed paper to cool.
Ingredients are:
3 cups of Oatmeal ( I also have mixed 1 1/2 cup each quick and regular together as straight regular seems to make them dry and straight quick makes them gooey)
1/2 cup of baking
choco powder
Mix these in a bowl and add to the other
ingredients after boiling
Mix in sauce pan:
1/2 cup milk
1 cube margarine
2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla (less if you use
mexican vanilla)
1/8 teaspoon salt
Cook on stove top until at least 110-115 degrees F. or 3 minutes different stoves reach the temperature faster/slower and boiling for 3 minutes seems to make a reasonable cookie.
Now that you have the family secret (oops)
recipe you can try it and let me know how it works. For
choco-
hollic's having them a bit gooey just means you get to lick your fingers more. They seldom make it past the first day and if they do they always have dried enough to not be too messy. So enjoy Maybe I'll make them along with Kellee's chinese chooies.
oi! where do I begin!
everything now has a place
My work here is finished!
There is only one pretty child in the world...and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
so I am driving home from work and it was not so great people were jumping in front of me and slowing down because i had timed my spacing just right for a car and a half space but any way im past thanksgiving point and a car changes lanes and look there is a bmw m5 right in front of me and me being me stay with the bmw tell i had to get off so i turn off my cd and just listing to the car it had a exhaust on it wich made it sound o so cool and the guy slows down and i look at him and say nice car and he is like thanks and so i follow for a few more miles just listing to the bueatful car it was close to mikes but not it but it was the highlight of my job so far in my drve to and from work
we just need to do the grout and then i think this will be done and that will happen after the carpet.
this is looking from the arch room to the sewing room
So I think I am really funny, but it is 11:30 at night. I had this epiphany to put a countdown clock on the blog about dad and the big day for cutting his beard. I was trying to come up with a title for it like when Harry met Martha or something. and like i said it must be really late because i need a tissue to wipe the tears from my eyes I think I am so funny. I think we should have a big celebration bbq. Maybe we could get in on a bic commercial or something! Dad I would like to thank you for giving us something to talk about for the last year...so what are you going to do for next year? Handle bar mustache maybe? Grow your ear hair out? Shave an S in your chest or back hair. The possibilities are endless. I would just like to say kudos to you for puttin up with all the teasing and I hope ya know we love ya!
I don't know what it is with these three things but they just seem to go hand in hand. Last night Mike and I were watching a movie together when Ben showed up. He was really quiet at first, but since we didn't kick him out right away he thought he was safe to be himself. First he tells me to move over, and then makes himself comfortable. Then he decides he wants the middle so he tells dad to move over. Mike moved closer to me and thwarted that plan, so of course he comes back to my side (moms are a little more lienient, did i spell that right sister teachers?) As i was enjoying the movie Ben put his finger under my nose and said mom smell this. Whoa! what is it, said I. It's a buger, do ya wanna eat it? MMMM, how about i save it for the after movie snack...sick ben, no i don't want to eat your buger! The day before that he went poop in the toilet (and there was much rejoicing in the land) and I hear him say mom you gotta see this, it is really cool. Ben it's poop. ya mom it's really cool. I can only imagine what is going to happen when he becomes a teenager.
