My love for FOOD.

I love to cook.  I love it when I can take all these simple ingredients and create a master peice from it.  What is not to love?  What I love most is to challenge myself in cooking.  I take something that seems like a difficult recipe and make it my own.  If there's something I don't like, I change it.  It's whatever I want it to be.  Maybe I love it so much cause this is an area where I know I am in control.  (an ongoing problem with my husband and I)  The moto in our house when I try something new is, "If it sucks, There's always the Pizza Ranch."  How can you not love cooking when your thats your moto? 

I do have one problem with the eating process.  Just one.  I have, what I like to call, Food Amnesia. 
Have you ever had Food amnesia?  I have.  Plenty of times.  Going in for the flashback....once a couple of years ago, I discovered the most wonderful bar alive.  This bar is about 5000 calories in one bite and you have to do about a thousand sit ups just to make up that one bite.  But soo well worth it!  It was called the twins bar.  I mean it has a sugar cookie crust, Carmel filling and a milk chocolate top.  How can you get any better then that?  The first time I made it, I was in heaven.  It had all the qualities a bar should have.  Chocolate and Carmel.  This bar and me were made for each other.  Later that night, I went to put the bar away and half of it was gone.  I wondered, did my son get into it? Nope, he's only one.  He has yet to realize that he can climb.  Mike just got home, he couldn't of had that much already.  Where did all of it go.  I searched my food journal, only one bar was written down.  What in the world happened to the bars?  Deep down  I had a feeling I knew.  One of my brothers and sisters came into the house and took half for themselves.  Greedy little jerks.  That is mine!  Okay so for about a half an hour, I finally realized that they couldn't have taken it.  I was in here all day.  Sorry.  Then the whole puzzle came to when, I was sitting in the kitchen with something in my hand.  THE BAR.  It was me...I ate too many and now I thought I was going to be sick.  I didn't get sick, but then again I never made the bars for a "just at home snack."  These bars are for a big get together and I'm not taking any more home.

So there's my horrifying story!

Want a great bar recipie---you'll love it---full of fatty goodness.

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars

INGREDIENTS
1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/2cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup coconut, if desired
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated chocolate chip cookies
DIRECTIONS
1.Heat oven to 350°F. In small bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and egg until smooth. Stir in coconut.
2.In ungreased, 9- or 8-inch square pan, break up half of cookie dough. With floured fingers, press dough evenly in bottom of pan to form crust. Spread cream cheese mixture over dough. Crumble and sprinkle remaining half of dough over cream cheese mixture.
3.Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown and firm to the touch. Cool 30 minutes. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or until chilled. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store in refrigerator.