Deb's Lunch … and dinner and breakfast too

Yesterday I had to come home from work a little early, to meet the furnace guy. I decided to indulge in a little nostalgia, and use up some of the excess mini-marshmallows and rice krispies leftover from prom night to make chocolate-topped, peanut butter flavored, rice krispie treats. I used to make them a lot when  was the head cook at a co-op women’s dorm. They’re just the regular rice krispie treat recipe from the cereal box, with a half a cup of peanut butter thrown in – although I just realized that I doubled the recipe, and didn’t double the peanut butter. But still, seemed to be enough peanut butter to flavor the treats. Home made rice krispie treats must fall somewhere between white trash cooking and comfort food – I don’t think they’re flat out junk food – even the ones in the little foil packets are the type of thing you might resort to eating if you were stranded in an airport, and wanted something vaguely healthy for breakfast. I used kind of overly fancy chocolate for the topping, King Arthur Flour Burgundy Chunks – but I still wouldn’t call them gourmet. It only seemed right to make them in one of my more “house-wifey”, non-professional-chef pans: a non-stick, 9″ x 13″ pan, with handles and its own snap on plastic cover.

And lo and behold, all the food snobs around the house gobbled them up. I wasn’t surprised when the middle school girls hit them up right away, but I had 3, and even Al had a couple.

And the furnace seems to be working OK again – the horrendous noise has stopped. It’s still a little loud, but I think I’ve bought a little more time on the 18-year old furnace, for just a couple hundred bucks. Shoulda given the furnace guy a krispie treat.

Peanut butter rice krispie treats with chocolate topping