my sister's famous peanut butter bars

1 cup sugar
1cup brown sugar
1 cup margarine
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup peanut butter
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups flour
2 cups oats
Cream sugars, margarine, eggs, vanilla, and peanut butter. Add flour, salt, and soda. Mix in oats and pat into a 12x18 pan. Baken at 325 for 20 minutes. Remove from oven even though bars may still seem soft. Let cool, but while still warm spread a thin layer of peanut butter over the bars and then top with chocolate chips and let them melt on top. Eat them up, yum!

Just Peachy!

Meet our "Just Peachy" jam.

Homemade with love by:

Brooke Baker & Haley Earnshaw

I understand this is not a recipe, but I was mainly hoping to get everyone in the mood for baking/cooking/whatever! Learn something new that you always wanted to try! Make jam, make your own pickles, anything! It's just so fun to learn new stuff.

Fresh from the Garden Lasagna

Here is our new favorite dinner made from our fresh produce grown in our garden...

Hunts spaghettisauce
1 package lasagna noodles
16 oz of Cottage cheese
3 heaping handfuls of mozzarella cheese
4 homegrown tomatoes
1 homegrown zucchini
3 homegrown peppers
1 homegrown onion

Drizzle a small amount of spaghetti sauce in bottom of 9x13 pan. Layer Noodles, cottage cheese (spread evenly over noodles), cheese, sliced tomatoes, slices zucchini, sliced peppers, sliced onion, sauce, then repeat layers two more times. Cover top layer with sauce and cheese. Cook for 1 hour on 350.

Yum Yum Good!

Pretzel cheesecake dessert

Used to have this recipe at the break the fasts in Hawaii. SO YUMMY! Just had a craving for it hte other day and so I whipped it up. mmm...better than I rememer.
crust:
2 cups crushed pretzels
3/4 cup margarine, melted
2 teaspoons white sugar
filling:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup cool whip
topping:
1 (6 ounce) package strawberry flavored gelatin
2 cups boiling water
2 heaping cups frozen strawberries or mixed berries

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, mix crushed pretzels, margarine and sugar.
Press crushed pretzel mixture into the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish, and bake in the preheated oven 8 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Blend together the cream cheese and sugar. Fold in whipped topping and spread evenly over cooled pretzel mixture.
In a medium bowl, dissolve the strawberry flavored gelatin in boiling water. Mix in strawberries and set aside to cool for 15 minutes.
Pour gelatin mixture over cream cheese mixture and refrigerate until set, about 4 hours.

Beach Day Chicken-Crockpot

I always make this on days we're going to the beach. It doesn't heat up the house AND it's ready for when we get home :)

12-15 chicken tenders (or chicken breast-doesn't matter)
salt and pepper to taste
Jar of favorite salsa (I use Pace Thick n' Chunky in Medium)

Cook in crockpot for 6-8 hours on low, 3-5 on high

Make your own tacos with tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, etc!

*Could it get any easier?

Moroccan Chicken in slow cooker

two 16 ounce cans chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
one 15 ounce can of tomatoes
1 large red bell pepper, seeded and cut
1 medium sized onion chopped
1/4 golden raisins
2 tbs tomato paste
2 tbs water
1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
pinch of paprika
4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs cut into cubes
2 tbs creamy peanut butter, almond or cashew
serve with couscous or brown rice
Put everything in slow cooker (except peanut butter) and stir well. cook on low for 6 to 7 hours. Stir in peanut butter and serve over rice or couscous.
So yummy! Whole family loved it and it was so easy!