Pizza, cat, and the adventures of Sam & Susan

Hi guys! Greetings from nearly midnight in the apartment I share with my roommate for two more nights (that includes this one). I don't plan on posting this for a few days just so you have time to try my drool-worthy s'mores casserole, but I really wanted to put together a post about this story while it's fresh in my mind.
Alright, so I have spent the first two months of my summer with this fabulous gal:

Honestly, she's just the best. Sometimes, she just absolutely drives me insane but then there are nights like tonight and I remember why we're friends. Anyway, I spent my day extremely busy until late, and I hadn't brought my bike along so I texted Sam if she wouldn't mind picking me up after work. She agreed, and she picked me up and we went to the apartment normally. Yes, I sound boring, but I swear this is when it gets great. She sits down, I pace around talking about my day and at around 10:40 she decides we should get a pizza. One call to Little Caesars and we have a pizza ordered. *Awkwardly long pause as we both texted our respective friends* Then we realized that because LC closed at 11, and at that point it was 10:49, we should probably hurry. Yes, it is not that far because it's a small town and we live fairly close, but we still didn't want to get locked out.
Suddenly, I had the genius idea to bring Onyx along. I'm sure you'll remember Onyx, or on Facebook he's affectionately known as #Onyxthewondercat. If not, here's a photo selection to remind you who he is:

(Seen here he is cuddling with my writing. These were supposed to be nice and flat, and I think he knew that.)

 (Best cat selfie ever) 

(Disgruntled because I'm packing)

Anyway, Sam thought that would be a great idea as long as I put on his harness, which he hates. That is how, at 10:50 at night we were walking down the apartment hallway with a cat meowing and clinging to my shoulder. We must seem like terrible humans, but trust me that he's just a grumpy old man cat and he actually wasn't being tortured. 

We arrived at LC 4 minutes before they closed and we brought Onyx in with us. His eyes lit up like it was the best place he had ever been in, yet he still clung to my t-shirt like I was his life preserve in a rocking canoe. The cashier smiled and even said hello to him, which was funny as it is, but then we walked out of the pizza place and started to giggle. 

Let me preface this. Over this summer I have gone to Walmart at odd, late hours of the night multiple times. The first time it was after midnight and we were looking for cheap allergy meds, and the last time we were there we went shopping in the clearance section of the women's section and started debating what matched better with the jean shorts Sam just HAD to have. So we have done crazy things at late hours and we're used to it. 

Tonight though was the best. We drove back with a pizza on the dashboard and Onyx trying to look out the window as we giggled and talked to one of my poor friends who happened to be up that late. When we got back to the apartment we continued to giggle as we both cracked open Mountain Dews (at like 11:15) and started watching Pretty Little Liars. It was the best night I think either of us have had in a few days with all this working and busy-ness. Now, I must go finish packing because in less than 32 hours I will be an official couch surfer and that requires a lot of patience in my packing. I love you all! Stay beautiful! 

~Blondie~ (12:21 AM 7/22/15) 

S'mores Casserole

Hi guys! So I know I have been AWOL for more than a month, but I promise I'm going to try to get better. :) Yesterday I was craving something sweet, and I really wanted to bake, so I decided to grab some ingredients while I was grocery shopping.
So the recipe I used can be found at this link. I doubt that this is the original source, but this is where I found the idea from, so if anyone knows where the original source is I'd love to have it.
If you don't have a fire pit and you love to make s'mores, this is the recipe for you! The recipe uses Hershey's, but I decided to use Reese's since that's what I have on hand.

 This is all you need in order to make this recipe. I only ended up using one set of Reese's cups, but I'm sure you could use more. I used the large marshmallows (instead of the mini) because they were on sale with s'mores season still happening in the stores.
Before you do anything, preheat your oven to the temperature it says on the cookie dough roll.
Okay, so you want to start with a square cake pan. I sprayed it with butter spray primarily because I wanted to make cleanup easier. Then, you make one layer of graham crackers on the bottom of your pan.

You shouldn't even need a whole sleeve of crackers, and you don't have to make them very tight, either, just do the best you can. Next, take your tube of chocolate chip cookie dough and cut it open on the side. The instructions say to flatten it out on parchment, but we didn't have parchment so I tried it on foil but it wasn't worth it. Instead, I washed my hands and flattened it out piece by piece. These pieces you layer on top of the graham crackers. 

It won't be perfect, but trust me when I say it won't make a difference in the end. Take this and pop it in the preheated oven for 8 or 9 minutes. The cookie part should be pretty well cooked, but not all the way cooked because it's going to go back into the oven. 

While that's cooking, take out your chocolate. You could use Hershey's, but yet again I used Reese's because it gave me some peanut butter which was so good. In order to spread it around, I would cut it up into as small of pieces as you like. 

I had almost too much fun cutting my Reese's cups into pieces, primarily because I felt like a professional chef. You want these to be ready, no matter how much you use, the second they come out so they can melt before you put the marshmallows on top.

It doesn't look like much yet, but now you rip open that bag of marshmallows. You want to use them all, because the stickier the better. After all, it is a s'more! Arrange the marshmallows so that there isn't one marshmallow that is taller than the others so it will all come out golden brown.

Obviously, they will expand so don't worry if there are tons of gaps. Then, put the pan back into the oven and watch it like a hawk. For me, they ended up in the oven for about 8 minutes, and I checked on them every two or three minutes.

This should be the final product, then you cut them into squares (or giant chunks like my roommate and I did) and enjoy!

~Blondie~
PS I was worried about eating these cold, but they are just as good cool as they are hot out of the oven.