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3 Step Peanut Butter & Banana Cookies

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There was an article that was recently posted talking about all the new skills and hobbies that people are giving a try during our quarantine orders. Things, like learning yoga and mastering a second language, made the list. Learning a musical instrument, and expanding your online college education were also big contenders. It turns out though, the number one thing on our minds right now - is EATING. At the very top of the list was cooking and baking! With restaurants closed and take-out still feeling a little too risky, people are cracking open those pantries and combining ingredients to make something delicious of their own.

If you’re new to the baking scene, here is a simple recipe for a little feel-good treat that you can create for your family. After posting a picture of these cookies on my Facebook page - there was an outcry for the instructions to create these bite-size stress busters. Here ya go friends - have some fun with your kiddos - and enjoy!

Ingredients:

Cooking spray

1 egg

1 cup peanut butter

½ cup plain instant oats

1 medium banana

¼ cup white sugar

¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and hose down a baking sheet with some cooking spray

Step 2

Beat one egg in a bowl and add peanut butter, oats, sugar, chocolate chips, banana, and vanilla extract. Make 1-inch balls of dough and place them on that greasy baking sheet - then slightly press those balls down using a spoon.

Step 3

Toss that baking sheet into the oven for 9 to 12 minutes. The cookies will look slightly raw - don't be fooled. They're done. Let them cool down for 10 minutes before pigging out.

The original recipe can be found at allrecipes.com


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The Most Disgusting Sandwich

PBJ BANNER

“Shut your blaspheming mouth!”

“You’re disgusting!”

“I can’t stand you and your opinions!”

“You’re an idiot!”

“The only time I use peanut butter is to trap mice, and that's it... “

These are just some of the charming opinions that were posted on my Facebook after I proclaimed on the radio show that the peanut butter and jelly sandwich is the most disgusting sandwich on the planet.

Wow, people - you’re so kind, and what’s up with the one about mice?

PBJ GIF

Anyway…. I’m sorry it’s just how I feel. It’s a texture thing for me I guess.  The thickness of the peanut butter mixed with the stale cold jelly/jam/preserves that you dig out from the back of your refrigerator - it all just becomes a mishmash of flavors that don’t belong in my belly. It’s a lazy meal and I have no use for it. The flavor sucks and the bread just falls apart. It’s trashy and that’s where it belongs. In the trash.

This particular abomination of a sandwich is reserved for starving college kids who can’t afford a decent meal and for children 10 and under - who just don’t know any better.

That’s it. It’s a child’s sandwich. Just thinking about this crappy concoction takes me back to elementary school lunches.  Sitting down in the school cafeteria expecting a delicious slice of leftover pizza from Mom, but to my disappointment, I cracked open my He-Man lunch box to find a nasty soggy greasy blob of bread with some sort of discolored ooze sticking to the inside of a Ziploc bag. After a couple of bites of that monstrosity - the appeal will forever be stained. Toss that junk into the trash and hit recess, it’s time for tetherball!

Maybe that’s why I hate it so much.

I did read a stat the other day that talked about how the average American will eat over 2000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school. NO wonder by the time I became an adult I was sick of pounding these barf meals down my jelly hole - my pallet has become much more sophisticated now, and I’m turning my nose up to this American classic.

Another factor in my hatred of this deplorable sandwich probably comes from some of my OCD tendencies. I like everything neat and tidy - in its place - lined up and looking good. The PBJ is a visual disaster, there is no way of making it look presentable. It’s a smeary, sloppy, ooey gooey mess that makes me wince every time I see one. I need nicely presented meats and cheeses on a fresh hoagie spaced evenly apart to satisfy my sandwich snobbery. 

I understand this is an unpopular opinion to have toward such an iconic dish - but it needs to be said. This is a stereotypical case of “looks like there’s more for you” - because I’m not backing down. The PB&J is a total puke fest, with or without crusts. 

Thank you.