Weight For It!
In one of the mags is a recipe that might be tempting enough for all to include in their lunch box (or even as as a snack between meals). Slightly adapted (I never copy a recipe as published), the ingredients can differ according to what we have (as long as the overall weight remains the same and the ingredients are of similar type). If you find the bars tend to crumble a bit - then coat them with good dark chocolate on all sides, and leave to set.
Munch Crunch Energy Bars: makes 9
4 oz (100g) butter, pref unsalted
3 level tblsp golden syrup
2 ripe bananas (total weight approx 9 oz)
5 oz porridge oats
3 oz (100g) no-soak apricots, chopped
1 oz (25g) raisins or sultanas
3 oz (75g) mixed seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame...)
1 oz (25g) dessicated coconut
Melt the butter in a pan with the syrup, and remove from heat. Chop the banana flesh into small cubes and stir into the butter/syrup with the remaining ingredients. Mix together thoroughly and tip into a greased and base-lined 8" square (20 x 20cm) baking tin.
Level the surface and bake for 20 to 30 minutes at 180C, 350F, gas 4 until golden, and it will still be soft in the centre. Do not attempt to remove it from the tin at this point or it will break.
Leave in the tin to cool completely, then use a sharp knife to cut into square or fingers and store in an airtight container.
Munch Crunch Energy Bars: makes 9
4 oz (100g) butter, pref unsalted
3 level tblsp golden syrup
2 ripe bananas (total weight approx 9 oz)
5 oz porridge oats
3 oz (100g) no-soak apricots, chopped
1 oz (25g) raisins or sultanas
3 oz (75g) mixed seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame...)
1 oz (25g) dessicated coconut
Melt the butter in a pan with the syrup, and remove from heat. Chop the banana flesh into small cubes and stir into the butter/syrup with the remaining ingredients. Mix together thoroughly and tip into a greased and base-lined 8" square (20 x 20cm) baking tin.
Level the surface and bake for 20 to 30 minutes at 180C, 350F, gas 4 until golden, and it will still be soft in the centre. Do not attempt to remove it from the tin at this point or it will break.
Leave in the tin to cool completely, then use a sharp knife to cut into square or fingers and store in an airtight container.
posted by Shirley at 4:43 AM
1 Comments:
Shirley
Thanks for the recipe on the energy bars - I especially like the idea of putting bananas into them.
In this household time is divided into half terms and holidays, though the weekends are having much more meaning and are being enjoyed by me now that I feel better. Apparently time seems to go more slowly if your brain is full processing new information - which is why, as a child, summer holidays lasted forever - you were busy with new experiences etc. So I am trying to get out, walk somewhere, do something different on Saturdays and Sundays so they 'feel' like more of a break. And it works. Yesterday was a few miles of hillwalking. (I know, - I'm busy burning OFF calories when I do that!). Half term will include a trip down the chair winch at Gaping Ghyll (a huge pothole).
I did feel that Peter Owen Jones on his 'simple life' was barking up the wrong tree, and made a tv prog all about something that YOU could have told him at the start - that a simple life comes from a generosity of spirit, and from not wasting resources, but taking care of what we have. He was still 'sponging' off people meaning that THEY were forced to work to sustain him. Yes, I'd like to 'not work' and have everyone else provide for me...oh - that's unemployment benefit isn't it!
Somehow paying my taxes doesn't fill me with as much happiness as giving a friend a few homebaked bisuits to take away.
Bah humbug.
We were at a neighbour friend's house last night where he was proudly showing off his sprout plants, apparently he has only just started to try growing his own veg this year, having seen what I have done. It's his wife who is learning to knit.
I shall get back to baking my own bread again - it's been too long and with a new Budget Challenge in the offing it's time to start (and with the roast chicken for dinner today, and tomorrow, and the next day!).
Let's hope it gets a bit warmer soon, my hanging baskets are still in a coldframe and I want them out so I can get more salad leaves going.
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