Sorry, I don't mean to insult you, but come on, you can't be seriously comparing whatever that "sludge" is to homemade fudge. Too funny!!

Hmmm, well, i did take a spoonful of peanut butter and topped it with dark cocoa powder around mid-night. No sugar, but it hit the desert spot just fine.
I'l have my bran and germ in granola for breakfast.
Pretty funny though.

I agree, that's nothing even close to fudge. I will admit, though, that I find the idea of "bran" in comparison to "fudge" pretty funny although I think they're pretty much mutally exclusive, LOL.

I do eat peanut butter by the tablespoon, though. My kids used to call that a "peanut butter sucker". Dark chocolate too, now THAT'S an idea.

Annie

You people seem to think I am kidding. Here's another previously published on the Recipe forum.

Here is a link that might be useful: Yum

This post was edited by mxyplx on Wed, Oct 30, 13 at 8:58

No, I didn't think you were kidding. I assumed you were serious.

~Ann

No, i did not think you were kidding either. It is the delivery that is funny.
Like you skipped breakfast, had clear broth for lunch, and needed a happy dinner with
a 'glue' mouth feel. No clean-up. Sticky and filling.

A classic magazine issue in the 70's gave a dozen kid treat 'no bake' recipes. A few years later a book came out with the same theme. We called them 'sneak treats'. Late night snacks that did not involve an oven or a pot/pan. Teen sleepovers using found sweets and treats in every cupboard. -white bread with butter, sugar, cinnamon, peanut butter, squirt of hershery's syrup, a few rice crispies, top with another bunny bread slice...smoosh...remove crust and roll in tight ball....sneak back to bed, enjoy.

Your excitement is charming. I just can't figure out if you are 15 or 50. Any more ideas for quick snacks welcome!
My parents did not buy packaged snacks. P-nut butter, popcorn, hersheys syrup and ice milk cream sometimes. We became very creative creating variations from the minimal offerings. And any dirty mess would be easily detected.

ps. walnuts taste like dirt. try pecans...(kidding! sort of)

I could be very wrong, but I'm guessing that Mxyplx is a man and probably a senior. Just seems like something a man who didn't cook would think of. :-)

~Ann

COOKING EFFICIENTLY
And the Story Behind Easy Popcorn Candy

Looking back all my life I have striven or been driven to do things more efficiently. Probly most people do but it seems stronger in me. Sometimes, of course, it takes lots of extra effort and there is the occasional failure, but for me itâÂÂs worth it. As an aerospace research engineer I and my colleegz were concerned with efficiency in our programs. And so it seems to have rubbed off into my cooking.

My wife made popcorn candy at Christmas which the rest of the family would about kill for. But. The poor thing would work all day at it and be frazzled out by it. Well I stayed out of the kitchen at those times (clue #1 for a successful marriage) but eventually she developed AlzheimerâÂÂs and couldnâÂÂt handle it. So I took on the job.

I read the recipe and discovered it was based on a divisor of 5. Well imagine dividing a 1 / 4 lb stick of butter by 5. Etc. No wonder she was frazzled out. So I multiplied the entire recipe by 0.8 which then based it on a divisor of 4 and rounded off to the nearest reasonable measure and could walk thru the entire thing in about 4 hours including cleanup. I think about 8 batches in loaf form.

Still I hated it. I did 2 XmasâÂÂs and quit. Screw it. Ah, but how to consume the left over ingredients?

>>Easy Popcorn Candy:-)

-mxyplx, male, 78.583, Chief Cook & Shortcut Arteest.

mxyplx, Fantastic!

I like your approach, your thinking, and your sense of humor.

It is people like you who can make cooking and eating even more interesting.

Perhaps you can explain to me this, being an aerospace research engineer :

I can understand what kind of issues an astronaut has to deal with in a gravity free environment, but how does an astronaut go to bathroom in space?

Yes, it is an eating related topic. :-)

dcarch

Oh good grief!!!!!!!
There is a book titled "Packing for Mars" a year or 3 old explains all that

But briefly; on earth the bladder fills from the bottom up. It is lined with receptors. As it fills an increasing number of receptors fire off increasing the urgency.

In weightlessness the fluid is evenly distributed on the inside surface of the bladder thereby firing all receptors at once regardless of the fill. Therefore the urge is constant. Therefore they wear diapers.

I'll leave the rest to the book. It is not without humor. There must be many unpublished exchanges between the space vehicle and the ground. :-)

I learn something new on this forum everyday! My grandsons are going to think they've got the coolest grandma knowing this! lol

/tricia

Just marvellous stuff!!!LOL

LOL I just set up a reminder on Outlook to look at this thread on 4/20. Got any more?

Easy chocolate covered pretzels:
Put pretzel in your mouth and add to mouth a few chocolate chips, chew.
Variation:
Add some peanuts to mouth and chew.

LOL, Arkansas girl.

Actually, it doesn't sound bad, but it doesn't sound like fudge or anything remotely related to fudge. Of course I actually like to cook and I HATE mathematics. A lot. That makes a difference, probably. Plus, cooking seldom frazzles me, it relaxes me, and lets me concentrate on something besides whatever it is that I don't want to be doing instead. (grin)

Mxyplx, I'm sorry about your wife. Alzheimer's is a horrible thing, my husband's mother spent 7 years in a nursing home before her death, not even knowing she was in the world. I'm sorry I never got the chance to know her before she was stolen away.

Welcome to the Cooking Forum where you'll find that most of us cook incessantly and not very quickly, and then we'll discuss it at length and do it all over again!

Annie

This thread has brightened my morning! Being a good cook is one thing. Never losing one's sense of humor is even more important.