BEST Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars with Icing

This is the best PB Bars!! Your family will love it.

Preheat oven to 350

9x13 pan greased 1 cup melted butter

while warm add 1 1/2 cup Peanut butter

mix until melted

1 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 tsp Salt 1 T. Vanilla 4 eggs 2 cup All purpose flour

Add PB and butter mixture

Bake 30 minutes

Cool completely then frost

Icing 1 cup confectioners sugar 1/4 cup Peanut butter 2 to 3 TB Milk 1 tsp Vanilla

Peanut Butter Cups – Keto-Style Fat Bomb

If you like Reese' Peanut Butter Cups, you’ve got to try these.  They taste similar… except they’re 100% keto.  In fact, these qualify as “fat bombs” in the keto diet culture; they have a large amount of fat, intended to help you meet your daily fat intake macros.  .


Basically, as long as I get to eat chocolate every day and lose weight, I’m not feeling very deprived.

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp coconut oil (I have also made this with half coconut oil, half butter – it was also delicious)
• 4 tbsp natural nut butter (chunky or creamy, peanut or almond butter, just no added sugars!)
• 1.5 tbsp cream cheese
• 1 tbsp sugar free vanilla syrup (Torani, Da Vinci, whatever – usually found in stores by the coffee)
• 1 tsp cocoa powder
• 1 Packet Keto/OS Chocolate -
  https://janetharrison.pruvitnow.com/product/ketoos-3-0-chocolate-swirl/
• sweetener to taste (I use Stevia)

Mix all the ingredients together in a microwaveable glass measuring cup. Makes it easy to pour into the molds

Microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring between them, until ingredients are fully incorporated.

Pour mixture into some sort of mold.  

Place into the freezer to harden.
 Store in freezer bags, plastic container or mason jars in the freezer. 


 One dozen breaks down to this:

Easy Delious Crock Pot Chuck Roast

1 chuck roast. Place roast in crock pot.-- 
Sprinkle roast with Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing.
Sprinkle McCormick AuJus mix on top.
Place a stick of butter on top of seasoned roast.
Put about 5 pepperoncini peppers on top.
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Do NOT add water - it will dilute the flavor.
Cook in crock pot on LOW for about 8 hours

~ ENJOY

Magic Lemon Pie

This Lemon Pie Is So Easy to Make It Seems Like Magic ~

The flavors and the texture are light, fluffy, and zesty, and you can’t help but feel like you’re eating sweet summer sunshine in every bite!

The best thing about this pie – besides it’s amazing flavor and fluffy texture – is that it basically comes out of the oven as the filling AND the crust, all in one.

Plus, it’s just so easy to make. It’s essentially a one-pot dessert, with all the ingredients you need being whisked in one bowl. All you have to do besides that is pour the mix into a bake-friendly dish and let the oven go to work! One thing is for sure: your kitchen is going to smell amazing.

INGREDIENTS
– 3/4 cup sugar
– 4 eggs– 1/2 cup melted butter
– 2 cups milk
– 1 tsp. vanilla extract
– 1/2 tsp. lemon zest
– 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
– 1 cup coconut flakes
– 1/2 cup flour

DIRECTIONS

1. In a bowl, combine sugar and eggs. Whisk together to combine.
2. Add melted butter and milk. Whisk to combine.
3. Add vanilla extract, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Whisk.
4. Add coconut flakes and flour. Whisk to combine.
5. Pour mixture into a bake-safe dish. Bake at 350 F. for 45-50 minutes.
6. Top with whipped cream and blueberries – Enjoy!

Recipe by --
http://tiphero.com/magic-lemon-pie/

Butter vs Margarine

 

Pass The Butter ... Please....

This is interesting!!

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who h...ad put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings....

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.


Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

 * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.


Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

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When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
 

Garlic Parmesan Pull-Apart Bread

1 can of refrigerated Grands biscuits
1/2 stick of butter
3 cloves of garlic  minced
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp Italian Seasoning (I omitted)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Throw the cold 1/2 stick of butter in a bundt pan and let it melt in the preheating oven.

While the butter melts, cut the Grands biscuits into quarters. In a bowl, toss the biscuit pieces, garlic, Italian Seasoning, and Parmesan cheese together.

Once the butter is melted, add the biscuit mixture, sprinkling with any cheese and garlic that gets let behind in the bowl.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20- 22 minutes until golden brown. Turn out on a dish and enjoy! 

More Great Recipe:  The Virtuous Wife -- Thanks to Amanda!!

     

Quick Cheese and Cracked Pepper Bread

I have been making this bread for several years. Yummy in a basket of Homemade Christmas Gifts. This bread really is quick and easy and can easily be made by beginners!

Ingredients

  1 cup buttermilk
  1/3 cup margarine or butter   2 cups bread flour (I like King Arthur)
  1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
  2 eggs   1/2 teaspoon salt   1/2 teaspoon baking powder   1 teaspoon sugar   1/2 teaspoon baking soda   4 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese or cheddar cheese

Instructions

Heat oven to 350.
Grease bottom only of 9x5 inch loaf pan.
Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup, level off.
In Med.
bowl, combined flour, cheese, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and pepper; mix well.
In small bowl, combine buttermilk, margarine and eggs; blend well.
Add to dry ingredients stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
Pour into greased pan.
Bake at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan 15 minutes; remove.
Cool completely on wire rack.
Wrap; store in refrigerator.

CROCK POT APPLE BUTTER

  This is a simple recipe!

 

12 - 14 Granny Smith apples (16 c. chopped)
2 c. cider
2 c. sugar
1 tsp. watkins cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves

Core and chop apples, do not peel. Combine apples and cider in crock pot. Cover and cook on low for 10 - 12 hours or until apples are mushy. Puree in a food mill to remove peels. (Leaving the peels on during the cooking gives the apples a nice color and flavor.)Return apples to Crock-Pot, add sugar, cinnamon and cloves. Cook uncovered until thickened to your desired consistency. May be canned for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath or frozen for up to 12 months.
Makes 8 cups.