What is your favourite food, recipe and/or favourite restaurant?
My favorite recipe? Let's go with one for a yummy snack. Seriously, it's amazing:
This recipe is from Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious Cookbook:
Servings: Makes 12 bars
Ingredients:
Blueberry Oatmeal Bars (with Spinach)
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup Balance trans-fat-free soft tub margarine spread , chilled
- 1 cup low-sugar blueberry preserves
- 1/2 cup spinach puree
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°. Coat an 8" x 8" baking pan with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and vanilla and stir to mix well.
Add the margarine and cut it quickly into dry ingredients with two knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal and is no longer powdery. Do not overmix—bits of margarine will still be visible.
Set aside about half of the oat mixture; press the rest firmly into the pan. Bake until lightly browned at the edges (but not fully baked), 13 to 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix the preserves with the spinach puree in a small bowl.
Spread blueberry mixture over the partially baked oat layer, then sprinkle with reserved oat mixture. Bake until topping is slightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Set the pan on a rack to cool completely before cutting into 12 bars.
Preheat oven to 375°. Coat an 8" x 8" baking pan with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and vanilla and stir to mix well.
Add the margarine and cut it quickly into dry ingredients with two knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal and is no longer powdery. Do not overmix—bits of margarine will still be visible.
Set aside about half of the oat mixture; press the rest firmly into the pan. Bake until lightly browned at the edges (but not fully baked), 13 to 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix the preserves with the spinach puree in a small bowl.
Spread blueberry mixture over the partially baked oat layer, then sprinkle with reserved oat mixture. Bake until topping is slightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Set the pan on a rack to cool completely before cutting into 12 bars.
My favorite restaurant?
Finally, an EASY question! Beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is Leo's Mexican Restaurant . Growing up, we went there at least once a month (I will have a 1A, no beans was my order. Now, I would keep the beans). Sadly, there is not one where we live now, but that's ok. It's probably better for my waistline!
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2 comments:
Those blueberry bars look so yummy!! I'll have to try those this summer! Leos is our family's favorite too!! I think I get the 1B!! :) Yum!!
omg...the blueberry bars look delish! However, when you throw in that spinach in there...I don't know about that. I know that you probably don't even taste the spinach and that's why the kids love them so much but since I know it's there, I don't know if I can ignore that fact! LOL! But I love spinach on it's own...does that count?
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