Thursday, April 29, 2010

Apple pecan (nut) bars with oat and rice flours


These are a wheat-free, dairy-free snack bar. While very tasty, I'm not sure it's worth omitting the wheat and eggs unless you're on a strict diet. The flax eggs worked wonderfully, and the brown rice and oats were well ground by my (new!) coffee grinder (reserved only for non-coffee items). Due to the milling flours and seeds, and shelling walnuts and hazelnuts (from my and Rob's yards, and replacing the pecans), this recipe took way longer than I thought it would. Although tasty, I'm not sure I'd make it again.
1 star, 3 bars

Yam and pepita quasedillas


These were fantastic, but with the added work of making the Honey Chipotle Sauce, Chipotle Chile Purée, and Flour Tortilla's, this was an immense amount of work for an evening. Although each recipe would have been easy on its own, combined, they were far too much work for such a relatively simple meal. While it's possible to buy your own tortillas to speed things up, I hate the excessive use of stabilizers and odd sounding chemicals in commercial tortillas that allow them keep on the grocery store shelf for eons. The Rebar tortillas were beautifully tender and tasty, and while "most of the time you'll spend on this recipe is dedicated to resting" that resting time is 2 hours, which still had me mixing, rolling, and frying for ~45 minutes.
2 stars and and 3 bars

Note on Lime-Honey Baked Yams. Yummy and easy to make, but difficult to take a photograph of. Like Carolyn, I have no picture. I would add more lime next time to accentuate the citrus zing!
2 stars, 1 bar

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Banana Bread with Wheatgerm and Walnuts


I would agree with Carrie's assessment on the banana bread... it was good, but doesn't stand out above many other banana breads that I have made. I had trouble getting the big loaf to cook all the way through... maybe I should have used my two smaller loaf pans - or maybe I can blame the oven. The bread was a nice treat to have around for about a week.

Two stars - one bar

Roasted Potato Pizza - Page 200



It's been a while since I've been here, and our Rebar cooking slowed down for a while... we're trying to get back on track and I thought I'd share a few things we've made over the past month.

This Pizza is REALLY good! I think we made a few substitutions, using half store pesto and half home made pesto, Nic forgot to buy pine nuts so the pesto was a bit improvised. We also decided to go all out on the greens and put on spinach, chard AND kale.

As you can see... I really enjoyed the pizza!
Four stars - three bars.