Phew. We're here. (In Shreveport, Louisiana - my mama-in-law's home town and our home for the next three months.) And today I would like to tell you that we would not have made it without emergency candy. In the days leading up to our trip, as I packed a toddler and most of a house on a cross country flight with a stop-over in Houston to change onto a tiny prop plane to take us to the 10th largest North American city in terms of land mass (woof this place is sprawling), there were some moments there, some moments where I found that I could... just... not... move... forward... without... candy. And while the boy slept or just turned his head, I managed to hunt down and finish off every last little stray box of Halloween treats. When that emergency stash was depleted, I turned to chocolate chips, but it just wasn't enough. And thus, emergency candy was born.
Take a blob of peanut butter (as much as you need, for my part this was about 2 Tablespoons). Add enough powdered sugar to blend the peanut butter into a firm dough (this is between one and one and a half times the amount of peanut butter - so start with 2 Tbsp, and add more as needed). Blend with a fork, as I said, into a firm dough. You will have to lightly knead with your finger tips as the dough becomes stiff. Now pinch off a piece of this dough, and just go ahead and eat it if this is a true candy emergency. If you can hold off for approximately two seconds, then roll that pinch into a ball, flatten it into a disk, press a chocolate chip or a cheerio into the middle, fold up the sides, and roll again into a ball. Repeat with remaining dough.
So, as I said, we're here. Thanks to the candy. Expect this blog to continue as before, with perhaps a slight southern accent. Now, if anyone knows where I can find organic and local fruit and vegetables in the Shreveport area, please share, we're slightly malnourished around here. No thanks to the candy.
