MOVED (:

An oven worse nightmare!

All these while, I have been blessed with an oven wherever I go. Now that I don't have one, I guess i can still continue to count my blessing with the stove I have. J taught me how to make these while doing grocery shopping with her. "Easy",she said, "just mix them all up and let them set." Sounds really easier than baking a piece of cake. So I decided to give it a go today.

Result: No Bake Peanut Butter cookies.

Easy? Never been easier.

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 stick butter

1/4 cup milk

1/2 peanut butter, it has to be crunchy

2 cup oatmeal

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Bring the sugar, butter and milk into a saucepan and up to a simmering boil. Swirl the saucepan from time to time.

Once the sugar has melted down, turn off the heat. On the stove, add in peanut butter and mix thoroughly with a spatula. Now take the pan off the stove, pour in oatmeal and spices. Fold all the ingredients together and let it set for one minute.

Use a ice-cream scoop or two spoons, drop each dough on parchment paper placed on a baking tray. Let it set in room temperature for at least 10 minutes.

Personally, the tray pops into the fridge for a good 10 minutes. I like mine served with hot coffee. Its really so easy to make. Once you get the gist of this, add chocolate chips, varieties of nuts, spices or even marshmallow.

There will only be one problem. You can't stop at one.

Enjoy (:

Alone for the holidays? You are not alone, alone.

From Julia/Julie to all the food bloggers in the world now, wanting to make it big as any cookie can get. There is nothing more special about the way each of us continues to inspire one another with food.

I had just finished watching the movie for the second time. Don't be afraid to debone a duck. I debone a chicken in 8 ways one evening in class and it was easy as baking a cake. If you can't bake a cake, debone a chicken, if you can't debone a chicken, bake a cake. If you can do both, good on you! Get some champagne. If you can't do both, go to Walmart... or at least get a cookbook please? If a vegetarian like me can do it, i dont see why you can't really.

Living alone so far away from home is not easy. This is smaller than the 900 sq feet apartment Julie Powell stayed in with her husband. I dont have a husband. I dont have a cat. All I do have now, is my chipped cup half-filled with coffee on a gloomy Sunday afternoon and this blog. Cooking is good therapy, but not when no one is around to enjoy or even taste how bad it is. But i am ever so determined to get through this whole year in culinary school, my tears are not gonna hold me back. Day-by-day, I'm am going to make the most out of it here.

Wish me luck! (:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Before I move, to my new blog.

Just want to wish all the readers a very Merry Christmas (: Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays with their family. Snuggling up in front of the fire place and opening your lovely presents. Don't get caught in the snow storm!

What would Christmas be like if you didn't leave cookies for Santa?

Moving soon.