Refrigeratorless

I hate to admit that we have been ordering take out or picking up Panera salads for dinner for the past week or so. Last night J even took me out to dinner at our favorite restaraunt. The reason for this is not because I am tired, or busy with grad school projects, but because the refrigerator decided last week to stop working. Given, it's been making horrible noises since I met J and I had suspicions that the temperature wasn't quite right a few times, when leftovers went bad before they should have. But now there is no doubt that it has made it's move to that big refirgerator warehouse in the sky, it has kicked the bucket, and no amount of J's fiddling will revive it.

This is not a good development for my much needed cooking therapy sessions! I need my nightly destressor to deal with my day to day happenings..a second grader who rolled her eyes at me at least 100 times yesterday, my mother's looming moving day, and that person that you know has something to say about you as soon as you are out of earshot...and infact, you are not always out of earshot. I have found out some very interesting things that I have done or said that must have been done while I was in a momentary coma because I don't remember half of them. I desperatly need this vital aspect of the kitchen back to house my much needed ingredients! But J says PBJ is fine and who needs cream for coffee, we just won't have coffee, or we can drive down the mountain to DD. So now is the time to find some recipes that don't call for eggs, milk, sauces of any kind or will yeild leftovers.

I was is a pickle last week whenI had signed up to bring my pretzel salad to the end of the year grad party at my professors house but had no way to set the jello or keep it cold until the next day... so pretzel salad was out. I needed something easy, with no cold ingredients, no need to set in the fridge and something I could take to work with me the next day and leave in the car for later on. Thinking...thinking...Tumbleweeds!

Tubleweeds are extremely easy to make and extremely easy to eat the entire batch in one sitting if you are not careful! They even passed J's taste test, so you know they can't be bad!

What you need:
3 cups butterscotch chips
3 TBS peanut butter
1 (12 oz) container of salted peanuts
1 (7oz) container potatoe stix
(Picture to come soon)

What to do:
In a medium pot, slowly heat and stir the buttercotch chips and peanutbutter until melted
Remove from heat
Add peanuts and potatoe stix- Stir to combine
Spoon by large Tablespoons onto waxed paper
Let set :)

You can throw these in the fridge to set if you have one available, but mine came out just fine when I left them to set on the counter!

Now that I have a frigeless dessert, I need to move onto the important meals of breakfast and dinner, we miss our scrambled eggs!