Gloomy Sunday

It's a yucky Sunday here in northeastern Indiana.  We were supposed to be getting 2-4 more inches of snow, but Mother Nature decided to send us sleet instead.  Honestly I'd rather have snow.  Ice is scarier.  So what do you do with a gloomy disgusting Sunday?  You hit the kitchen with a helper chef.  After the 300th "I'm bored" from D - I decided to put him to work.

We're trying out two new recipes today.  Recipe number one is courtesy of The Country Cook blog and can be found here - Peanut Butter Rice Krispie treats.  We followed her recipe exactly until the very end when we got adventurous and threw in a couple of handfuls of chocolate chips because what goes better with peanut butter than chocolate? (Well besides jelly that is...)

Of course I had to take some pictures of the cuteness that helped me.

Licking the peanut butter spoon - don't worry we were done with that one. 

Getting messy smushing the treats into the dish

And finally cleaning up his hands when he was done

After finishing up the rice krispie treats I sent my helper in to watch the Colts football game with his daddy while I tried out a new bread recipe.   Amish White Bread found at Scratch this with Cindy's blog.  I've never tried this bread recipe before so we'll see how it goes.  It seemed a little dry when I was mixing it.  Hopefully it's good. Either way there's just something peaceful about making homemade bread.  

Hope you're all safe and warm on this gloomy day!