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Christmas is a time of giving and to me that's the most fun. On
Christmas morning, I watch the rest of the family as they open their gifts to
see their reaction to what I gave them. Do they like it as much as I thought
they would? Are they pleased? Then, someone will say “Mom/Nana, aren’t you
going to open your gifts?” and I quit watching and start opening.
A traditional cookie we always have
at Christmas is O Henry Bars. This came from Hubs’ aunt and my kids love them.
(Me, too.) Chocolate and peanut butter. How can you go wrong with that?
So here’s my gift to you. I hope
you enjoy.
O Henry Bars
2/3 cup margarine
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup light corn syrup
3 tsp vanilla
4 cups uncooked oatmeal
1 cup chocolate chips
2/3 cup peanut butter
Cream together margarine and
sugar. Add corn syrup and vanilla. Beat well. Add oats. Mix. Spray (with
non-stick spray) 13x9x2 pan. Spread oats mixture in pan. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes (don’t
bake any longer even if it doesn’t look done). Cool.
Melt chocolate and peanut butter
together. Pour over cooled cooked oat mixture and spread evenly. Cool several
hours before cutting into bars. Quantity depends on how big you cut the bars.
While you're cyber-munching on an O Henry Bar, here's
a little taste of my newest sci-fi romance The Pilot, which kicks off the Outer Rim
series about strong women on the frontier of space.
Blurb:
There's no place like home and he
just stole hers.Cargo
hauler, risk taker Celera d'Enfaden must work with rule-bound Administrator
Trevarr Jovano to save her brother from a galactic gangster.
Excerpt:
Celara pushed her chair away from the table and climbed up
on it. “Quiet down, you Rimmer scum.”
The patrons laughed then quieted. Someone paused the Seinfeld vid.
She lifted her drink again. “A toast, Rimmers. Let’s hear it
for the wonderful, fantabulous, yada, yada, yada, Administrator Jovano. May he
live long enough to enjoy good health.”
To her surprise, silence met her toast. No one raised their
glasses or mugs, even in jest. Everyone was looking at her, standing on the
chair.
No, they were looking past her. Only thing behind her was
the door. Kleema groaned and buried her head on her arms on the table. Booted
footsteps rapped on the rough-hewn plank floor then stopped behind her.
“Thank you for the compliments and the good wishes for my
longevity.” The baritone-and-chokiris voice sounded just over her shoulder.
If ever she needed a personal cloaking device, it
was now. Or a magic ring with which to disappear. Sec Admin Trevarr Jovano
stood behind her. Waiting. She swore she could feel him breathing.
Undaunted, she turned around. As the room tipped, she
reached for the back of the chair. “Whoa, those mudslides sneak up on you.”
Missing the chair, she grabbed the closest thing—Trevarr
Jovano’s black-clad shoulders. Beneath her fingers, the strong muscles
contracted. “Hey there, Admin Man. Heard my toast, did you?” She grinned down
at him.
He wasn’t smiling. “You should sit down before you fall
down. Or better yet, go home and sleep it off.”
A dark fury swept away the sweet tranquility of two, tall
Kruferian mudslides. “I can’t go home, you snake. You stole my home.”
She swung a round-house punch at him, missed her objective
and would have fallen ignominiously off the chair had he not caught her. For
several long secs, he held her tightly against his chest, her feet dangling off
the floor a good twenty-five centimeters. His green eyes caught hers and
darkened.
The heat in the room rose ten degrees. Her heart tripped,
the air leached out of her lungs. His eyes. She could drown in those green
depths.
I think Celara had a little too much Christmas cheer. :)
What is your favorite food around
the holidays?
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