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I am definitely slacking on my blogging. I blame these two for keeping me preoccupied.
It isn’t that I havent been baking or cooking or busy, I just seem to find other things to do when it comes time to blog! Then, when I finally sit down to write, everything I wanted to tell you has completely slipped my mind! Maybe I’m getting old…
So last night I decided to make my own Blueberry Lara Bars. I have made the Banana Nut Bread Lara Bars before but I just did not feel up to dehydrating my own bananas. tsk tsk.
They are SUPER easy
Blueberry Muffin Lara Bars
Ingredients
1 cup dates, pitted (use Medjools over Deglets – they bind better)
2 cups cashews
1 lemon, grated zest of
1/2 vanilla bean, seeds of
Now, you can do each of these ingredients separately in the food processor or you can do them all together, depending on how good your processor is and how gummy- pastey the dates and blueberries get.
Cashews, dates, dried blueberries |
Brazilian Cheese Bread
Ingredients:
1 egg, at room temperature
1/3 cup olive oil
2/3 cup milk
Scant 1 1/2 cups tapioca flour (tapioca starch)
1/2 cup packed grated cheese of your choice I used Cheddar
1 heaping teaspoon salt
Method:
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Grease a mini-muffin tin generously. Put all of the ingredients into a blender and pulse until smooth. Use a spatula to scrape down the sides of the blender so that everything gets blended well.