Peanut Butter Cups of Awesome

In my house we celebrate Valentine's Day with homemade chocolates, and these Peanut Butter Cups are always requested.
I found the recipe years ago on Craftster (original post here) and it was an instant favourite with my husband.
Below is my mini-tutorial on making them.
Enjoy!

In a large mixing bowl combine 

1 cup peanut butter (I like smooth)

6 tablespoons butter (softened)

2 cups icing sugar

Using a dough cutter cut the ingredients together til crumbly

Then I squish them into little pucks (see picture below)

 Then I take good quality milk chocolate (I like Berard Callebaut), chop it up, and then melt it using the double-boiler method. You use chocolate chips or melting pucks if you prefer, but I find using the chopped bricks taste better.

 Melt the chocolate, then pour it into prepared cupcake wrappers. I put a little in the bottom, put the peanut butter puck in, then top with more chocolate.

 Once they are done, put them in the fridge to set. I find they taste best, though if served at room temperature.

My husband's Valentine's gift. <3

Bacon and Onion Pan Fried Squash

We had a dinner party the other day and I wanted to try something new for a veggie dish. I had bought a couple of squash to serve but, as we were serving a turkey, the oven was busy so roasting was not an option. I had to find something else to do, so I Googled "sauteeing". A recipe for squash fried with bacon came up and PRESTO! We had a winner.

The inspiring recipe is here: Butternut Squash Saute (Betty Crocker), but as you can see, I made a few changes:

Ingredients:

2 medium squash, peeled and cut into cubes (I used butternut and acorn)
1/2 pack bacon
1/2 large red onion, chopped
Thyme
Salt & Pepper

To prep the squash, put it in the microwave for about five minutes to cut and peel more easily.

Cube into 1/2 inch pieces and set aside.

Chop bacon into small pieces and fry until it starts to crisp. 

Add chopped onion. 

Fry for a couple minutes, then add squash, thyme, salt, and pepper. 

Fry until squash is fully cooked. You will know that it is ready when you can easily slice through it with a spatula.

Serve! It's delicious and super easy. 

And some pictures of our entire turkey dinner (MMMMM!). I made the yummy Quinoa salad mentioned in another blog post and even my husband liked it (he's generally hesitant about "weird grains").