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Thursday’s Quarter Recipe

strawberry breakfast bars

Super Strawberry Bars

These are great for breakfast!!

1cup flour (I used whole wheat pastry flour)

1 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened (I used 1/2 coconut oil and 1/2 butter)

1/3 cup light brown sugar (I use sucanat)

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon salt

3/4 strawberry jam (or whatever flavor)

350 degrees

In a large bowl, mix everything together except the strawberry jam.

Measure out 2 cups of this mixture and press it into the bottom of the pan.  Make sure you cover the entire bottom of the pan . (I doubled this recipe and used a glass 9×12.  I have an odd shaped glass 11×7(thin bars) or I use an 8×8 for single, thicker recipes)

Using a large spoon, spread the jam on top the mixture on top of the mixture in the pan. Spread it evenly all over.

Take the mixture that was left in the bowl and spread it over the jam.  Press it down lightly.

Bake 25 minutes.  Remove the pan from the oven, allow it ot cool for at least 15 minutes.

Cut and share!

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Thursday’s Quarter Recipe

From this…

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To this…

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In several easy steps!!

CHOCOLATE COVERED FROZEN BANANAS

First peel your bananas and compost the peels (or throw them out if you must)

composting is good!

Next cut all your bananas in half and place on a try/cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or wax paper

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Grab a bunch of your kids craft sticks

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Very carefully insert sticks into bananas about 1/2 -3/4 of the way, taking care not to split bananas.

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Melt some chocolate of your choice-I used semi sweet choc chips.  You can melt in a double boiler on the stove or in the microwave but be careful not to burn it.  Use 1/2 the power and stir often.

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Dip or frost bananas with the melted chocolate and sprinkle with nuts, coconut, sprinkles, wheat germ…..

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Place decorated bananas back on trays and put in the freezer.

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Once bananas are frozen they can be placed into a tubby or zip lock for easier storage in the freezer.

And on a different note-Meet Grizzly the 1, 118 lb Blue Ribbon Winner of The Ohio State Fair.

Blue Ribbon Grizzly

He really does not look comfortable.  Grizzly along with a mama pig nursing her 9 piglets and a closer look at all the Art in the Fine Arts Building were the highlights of my return visit to Theee Fair this evening.

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Thursday’s Quarter Recipe

First I need some of this……

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lemon mint water!  So cool and refreshing!  Add a few sprigs of mint and a few squeezed lemon quarters and chill.   OK now onto the real recipe…

Remember when you would come home to the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookie bars?  Well I don’t because my mom didn’t make them but, a  Jake’s friends Mom often makes us these tasty treats that I just couldn’t match.  Mostly because what makes them good are the things I tend to replace to make the treat more healthy; white flour, margarine, sugar.  The list could go on and on.  So I bought the Toll House Semi-Sweet chocolate chips just for the recipe.  Now that I have the recipe I would replace the chips with a different brand.  Yes I am a bit of a chip snob.  I prefer dark chocolate.-oops there I go again……

Original Nestle’ Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 1/4 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup softened butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 lg eggs

2 cups chips

375 degrees

combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.   Beat butter and sugars and vanilla extract in a large bowl until creamy.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Grdully beat in flour mixture.  Stir in chips.

Grease 15×10 inch jelly roll pan  bake 20-25 minutes.

So I realized my jelly roll pan is much bigger as I started to spread it in my pan so I tried to form it to a rectangle that was 15×10.  Actually it worked out great-since I like dark crispy cookies (the ends of the bars)a nd everyonre else likes soft cookies (middle).  But as you can see the vultures are ready to attack!

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