Today is March 15

Published 8:00 am Monday, March 15, 2021

• Tear off a piece of parchment paper about 2 feet long (24 inches). Lay paper across the surface where you will be mixing/playing.
• Spray the 1 cup measuring cup with cooking spray to prevent sticking of peanut butter. Measure out 1 cup of creamy peanut butter then spoon into the mixing bowl.
• Spray the tablespoon measuring spoon with cooking spray to prevent sticking of honey. Measure out 3 tablespoons of honey and add to the peanut butter in the mixing bowl. Mix the honey and peanut butter well.
• Place 5-6 saltine crackers in a Ziplock bag and seal. Finely crush crackers inside of the bag, being careful to not puncture the bag. You can use the can of cooking spray as a rolling pin on the outside of the sealed bag.
• Pour the finely crushed crackers into the peanut butter & honey mixture. Mix well and repeat until you have finely crushed and added the entire sleeve of saltines to the mixture. (The finer that the crackers are crushed, the better the recipe will turn out.)
• Spoon peanut butter, honey, and saltine mixture onto the parchment paper. Spray lightly with cooking spray. With clean hands, knead the mixture by hand until it has a dough like consistency.
• You are ready to play – remember to wash hands well for this step because this recipe is completely edible.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream

• • 2 eggs
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup light corn syrup
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 cup chopped, semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • In a medium bowl, beat eggs until frothy. Gradually beat in sugar until dissolved. Add peanut butter and corn syrup, beat until well blended. Stir in cream, milk and vanilla.
  • Add to ice cream maker. Follow manufacturer’s instructions for making ice cream.
  • Stir in chocoloate bits. Freeze until firm.

  For more recipes and peanut information visit https://gapeanuts.com/.

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  Lagniappe

  One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

  The previous owners of a small bowl may have thought they were lucky to have gotten $35 for it at their yard sale. But, says the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC], the anonymous buyer must have been more than delighted when he found out that the bowl is likely to bring in as much as $500,000 at auction. I didn’t take long for the folks at the Sotheby’s auction house to come to that conclusion when they identified it as “an exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique” from the Ming dynasty.

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  What are the odds?

  Julia Tinetti and Cassandra Madison met when they worked at a New Haven, CT restaurant in 2013. They quickly became friends, and It wasn’t long before they found out they both hailed from the same country when they discovered they sported identical Dominican Republic tattoos, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. Their friendship flourished over the over the ensuing years they became closer and closer, especially when they found out they were both adopted and that both of them were raised by single mothers. It wasn’t long before they decided to dig into their pasts, ultimately taking DNA tests that proved they were, in fact, biological sisters.

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  What’s that lurking behind the bathroom mirror?

  Samantha Hartsoe felt a cold draft coming from the bathroom of her New York City apartment and so she went in to check it out.  What she found was somewhat startling and a bit creepy, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. It seems there was a large, square hole behind her bathroom vanity mirror. Armed with a hammer, she passed through into what turned out to be an empty two-story apartment. She told a local TV reporter that she found trash bags and an empty water bottle but no sign of an inhabitant. Before crawling back into her apartment to call the building’s maintenance department she made sure the mysterious apartment’s door was securely locked.