Garlic Cheese Chicken Roll-Ups

This post has been a long time coming in a couple ways. First of all, these pictures have just been sitting on my computer (in my "Food" folder) for months, waiting to be posted! I actually have a quite a buildup of recipes just clamoring to be shared. The second way this is overdue, is that I haven't posted in a bit. I got super busy over last week, and then (as most of you know) there was that whole Hurricane Irene mess this weekend. We're fine, we didn't lose power or anything, but I was a little worried and was taking some precautions. Now that all of that is done this recipe can finally be shared! Yay! These are a very cool, new way to make chicken that is creative and just gosh darn yummy!

Peanut Butter Pie for Mikey

I'm new to this food blogging community--let's face it, none of them know this little silly blog exists. But I follow my favorite blogs religiously. Yesterday nearly all of them had peanut butter pie recipes-for Mikey. Another food blogger, Jennie, had the worst tragedy I can imagine befall her. She lost her beloved husband suddenly. I can't even let myself think about what I would do if something happened to Michael, and we've just been together for 2 years, not married and with children like them. My heart is breaking for these people I don't know and I just wanted to share it with you. Apparently, Mikey loved peanut butter pie, and the only thing Jennie asks is that you make some for someone you love. So go read her story and see his favorite peanut butter pie recipe, and take a look here for the peanut butter pie recipe I recently posted (and that, coincidentally, Michael keeps begging me to make again), and go make peanut butter pie for a loved one, let them know how precious they are to you and that you can't imagine life without them. And hug them close. I know I will.

Ooey Gooey Heavenly Brownies

Honestly, I probably don't even need to give you a little anecdote about these brownies. I mean, you see the picture, obviously they're amazing, and you're probably just going to be cranky that I'm delaying you from reading how to make them. But too bad for you I have a story! Back in, I don't know( April?), I had made up my mind to make these brownies. They had very few ingredients and I just wanted to gobble them up from the pictures and descriptions on How Sweet's post. So, one day I went over to my friend Charlie's apartment to visit and have dinner. Once I got there and we got talking, I decided to make these brownies for them. We went to the grocery store and picked up what we needed and I made do with the equipment they had (I had to do a lot of very fast whisking...my arm hurt). Also, they had cane sugar instead of regular granulated (it was actually pretty yummy, you could sort of feel that in the texture but it tasted great). Once they were out of the oven and cooled we all just went into chocolate comas of goodness. I left them with the leftover brownies and went on my way home.

And then I was haunted by thoughts and dreams of those brownies.

I HAD to have them again. It was imperative. So, not even a week later, I made them again, but at my apartment. And they were still amazing (and less sloppy). Right now, just writing this post, I want them. I want to talk Michael into letting me make them. (But he'll whine "too rich, who likes stuff like that, you like dumb stuff, why don't you ever make refreshing things, blah blah blahhh"). So make them for me, please, while I wait for the time to come for me to revel in their glory again.

P.S. Yes, these have mini marshmallows in them. Yes, you can kind of see them in the crust, but no-they are nothing like s'mores and there is no trace of the marshmallow save for the gooey wonderfulness of the texture.