Right then, today I ate (sorry, I’m showing off) an absolutely delicious tart. It’s gorgeous even cold. I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street today (you know, the film that lasts three hours, by that famous director whose films are full of sex, violence, drugs and the word “f*ck”). So after three hours and a bit (I caught some of the ads), being hungry was practically the done thing. Probably better than being “hungry”.
Anyway, I get home from the film (pretty good, those 3 hours just fly by, although somewhere deep down I have moral qualms about portraying “heroes” like that in quite that way, hehehe) and see that Kaja (the Kaja who has her very own bread on my site and is one of the “guests” in my e-book “The Primitive Book of Cooking, with Recipes, Part 1”, which will also be the last part if you keep downloading it at this rate) has posted some bars on Facebook.
Well, you should know I made contact (read: “a snarky comment on Facebook, works every time”) and got the recipe. Interestingly, Kaja wrote (as you can also read in the calorie count below) that “your body doesn’t absorb calories at the gym”. So now I know I’ll be eating all my meals at the gym from now on. So they won’t be absorbed 😉 I haven’t actually tried the bars yet, but I reckon they’re excellent, especially since the only ingredient with any flavour (apart from honey) is chocolate. So I can recommend them with a clear conscience!
At a glance:
Prep time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 20 minutes
Oven temperature: 180 degrees Celsius
Cooling time: 2 hours
How many does it make? Enough to keep Kaja supplied for half a month (that is, she got 15 bars)
Calories: “What do you mean, how many? Zero. Your body doesn’t absorb calories at the gym.” (Kaja, not terribly advanced in years, a fan of CrossFit, whatever that is)
Ingredients for energy bars to take to the gym:
- a packet of rolled oats
- a packet of flaked almonds
- a bag of dried cranberries
- a cup of honey
- half a cup of oil
- a tablespoon of molasses
- a teaspoon of vanilla paste / extract
- 2 bars of Milka white chocolate (nobody paid Kaja for this product placement, let alone me)
The recipe (Kaja’s method, so it’s marching orders. None of this “I did this, I did that”, just “do this, put that in, preheat the oven”)
Heat the honey, oil, molasses and vanilla paste in a saucepan until runny. Toast the flaked almonds in a frying pan until golden. In a bowl, mix the oats, almonds and cranberries. Pour in the liquid (the one you prepared earlier — note from PrymitywnaKuchnia.pl) and mix well. Transfer to a tin lined with baking paper and pat it down so it’s even and tightly packed.
Bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius. Once cool, spread the melted chocolate over the top (I — meaning Kaja, notes PrymitywnaKuchnia.pl — melt it in a saucepan set over another pan of boiling water, because when I heat it directly over the “flame” it turns into some brown “Kaja doesn’t know what” [forgive me, I had to censor Kaja’s choice language — note from PrymitywnaKuchnia.pl]!).
Then let it cool thoroughly, ideally in the fridge (don’t put warm food in the fridge or you’ll do it in, and your electricity bills too — note from PrymitywnaKuchnia.pl. Kaja can, because she comes from a wealthy family), so it sets and cuts easily. Enjoy!
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