Had to look that one up ... it looks delicious! I'll make something dead-simple for my boys today- Rice Krispies Treats. They love them and I am not much of a baker.

Rita, I love rice krispy treats. My boys don't care for them, but they love rice krispys. I think its because I don't put sugar on their cereal whether its R Krispys, Cheerios or any other I've never sugared it so they don't care for the taste of krispies and sweet together but they would eat them seperatly lol.

Tonight I'm going to make scones for breakfast tomorrow and think I'll mash up some canned pears to add to the batter. The boys ask for steel cut oats so I'll throw them in the small crock pot to cook overnight. Rita, I am a regular Betty Crocker in the kitchen LOL. Not really, but I do bake a lot its just simple stuff like cakes or cookies. My boys don't know but I hate to cook. For me its a chore, the worst chore. I cook every day and hate it more everyday lol

mamapinky:

Please tell me how you prepare steel cut oats in the little crock pot. I'd like to try it

OMG mama, I don't care to cook either. And I have kept up a good front about it too! I do like to eat though- and I like to eat nice things- plus I have four boys- so I cook. There are some people who do not care to cook who also do not care too much about eating- I wish I were one of those! My DH likes to cook recreationally. I like being in the kitchen with him when he does and help out and keep things clean and orderly- but for me- cooking is not recreational. I like entertaining though, and for some reason cooking for a big social occasion - even if it's just the boys and DH and myself- feels very different than the daily slog for me.

Seniorgal I use 1 part steel cut oats to 4 parts water, so I usually use 1 cup oats and 4 cups water and cook on low overnight 6 to 8 hours. You can also add things in at the same time such as diced apples, raisins, cranberries ect...if you want sugar, cinnamon or milk wait till morning to add it. I often add diced apples,and raisins and in the morning I stir in some brown sugar, cinnamon, and a splash of cream. I make this often in the winter since the boys love it. A little tip unless your making a lot be sure to use a small crock otherwise the oats and water are too spread out with not enough depth and it burns. Let me know if you try it and what you think of it. Enjoy.

Rita, I know what you mean, I can cook a holiday meal with a smile, lol..but meatloaf on Wednesday is a different story and I like my meatloaf its not about the food. Another thing I hate a messy kitchen, I hate clutter, hate steam, and expecially hate greasy smells and the mess it leaves. I just plain like a spotless kitchen and that's so unrealistic when I have a family to feed. Lol. My husband knows this about me so if he's mad at me he will put his toast on the counter top to butter it making sure he scatters the crumbs and oops some butter. Yet I will let the boys bake cookies with me with a big smile on my face yet all the while thinking OMG my kitchen is a mess. LOL.

I had to make the potato peanut butter candy in Home-Ec class way back when. It was interesting but can't say I ever made it again; too sweet and too much trouble.

There was a recipe I did make from that class, a stove-top oatmeal peanut butter candy ball, when I didn't have an oven. They weren't so sweet and healthier I think.

on rare occasion of one lone left-over boiled potato, my grandmother would make real "Irish potatoes". one, smallish, peeled/mashed potato. add powdered sugar until consistency of play-doh... one egg-sized potato could take full pound box of what nana always called 4X or 10X sugar, once moldable, would roll in cinnamon to resemble tiny, "dirty" potatoes.

I think that candy would give me sugar shock.

Kroger had blueberries on sale today. If they aren't gone, I'll make a blueberry crumble.

I had to look up the recipe for these potato peanut cookies and I saw another recipe that looks like little potatoes but it's apparently not the same one mentioned above.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/16520/irish-potato-candy/?internalSource=amp&referringContentType=amp%20recipe&clickId=amp_similar_recipes

They sound good. I only bake when it's time for the garden club sale.

I've been making for years flourless peanut butter cookies, which are really good.

One cup pb, 1 egg, one cup sugar! You cook them only until slightly brown or else they get too hard. Easy and enjoyable.

Never heard of this - somehow peanut butter and potatoes doesn't sound appealing.