Apparently I don’t want to ever lose the weight because this week, I chose to make No Bake Cookies. The kind you make on the stove top and don’t bother waiting until it’s completely set before you start eating them. They just so happened to be one of the only things I had all the ingredients on hand for tonight. Kind of telling isn’t it? That I have ingredients for cookies, but not for dinner? There are cookies to make and eat, so let’s get started.

You’ll need oatmeal, milk, sugar, cocoa, butter or margarine, peanut butter and salt.

In a saucepan, combine 1 stick margarine or butter… As you can see, I really need new pans.

1/2 cup milk…

1/2 cup cocoa…

2 cups of sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt whose picture didn’t turn out.

Get it all stirred up together… it might take a minute if you’re waiting on your butter to melt.

Bring to a boil, and cook for one minute. Incidentally, it is hard to get a picture of a boiling pot… all you get is steam!

Remove from the heat. You can’t tell, but in this picture I’ve just added 1/2 cup of peanut butter.

Add 3 cups of oatmeal.

Stir until well-combined. You can usually tell right away if you’ve done it right because it will be starting to thicken up as you stir it.

Drop spoonfuls onto wax paper. Let the cookies cool until they are set. Or some of them anyways. Feel free to pick up the still warm, half-set cookies and enjoy them! And don’t stress out too much if the cookies don’t set… the “goop” still tastes wonderful when scraped off the wax paper with a spoon. Ask me how I know.

The Recipe
No Bake Cookies

1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Stir together, and bring to a boil. Cook for one minute. Add in

1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups oatmeal

Stir well to combine. Drop spoonfuls onto wax paper and let cool until set. Enjoy!