Afelia, pork in red wine

Beaglebot's Tuna Salad

Fuzzy Dave's Super-Incredible Sugar-Coma-Inducing Chocolate/Peanut Butter/Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1 stick butter

5 tbsp. cocoa

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 tsp. vanilla

3 cups Quaker Quick Oats

Directions:

In a big-ass pot mix:

2 cups sugar

1/2 Cup milk

1 stick butter

5 Tablespoons cocoa

1/2 Cup peanut butter

Mix it all up and bring to a boil for 1 minute.

Remove from heat. Then add:

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups Quaker Quick Oats (make sure you use Quick Oats or you'll screw everything up, trust me)

With a wooden spoon, beat the mixture until stiff. It'll take a while.

Using a regular-sized soup spoon, drop cookie-sized plops onto wax paper.

Cool, then eat.

Makes a couple dozen.

Buckeyes

This is a recipe I learned from my mom when we lived in Ohio. This confection is called a Buckeye because it resembles the buckeye seed.

Ingredients:

1lb. Creamy peanut butter

2 sticks butter

6 cups powdered sugar

12 oz. chocolate chips

1/4 ounce parafin wax

Directions:

In a large mixing bowl combine:

1 pound of Creamy Peanut Butter

2 sticks butter

6 cups powdered sugar

Fold and mix with your hands until the mixture is the consistency of Play-Doh

Form into 1-inch, bite-sized balls

In a saucepan over low heat, or a double-boiler, melt:

12 ounces chocolate chips

1/4 ounce parafin wax.

Pierce the peanut-butter balls with a toopick and dip individually into the melted chocolate, covering 90% of the surface. Leave a little bit of the peanut butter exposed at the top.

Place onto wax paper to cool. Remove toothpicks.

Yields approx. 9 dozen buckeyes.

Note: You can place buckeyes in a wax-paper-lined Tupperware dish or Ziploc bag and freeze 'em. They'll keep for months.