{"id":5224,"date":"2013-07-09T05:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2013-07-09T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T02:01:39","slug":"breakfast-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=5224","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On most days, I pin willy nilly to my pinterest boards<\/a>, guided only by the visual sumptuousness of the images. One day I will embark on all the DIYs I’ve pinned, but for now, I am content with trying out a recipe or two a week.<\/p>\n

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The one that caught my eye this week is the cherry, pistachio & coconut breakfast bars<\/a>, but I made quite a few modifications to my version. For starters, I didn’t use any cherries since I’ve overloaded on the fruit in Michigan so I’m avoiding them for the time being. I also omitted the toasted coconuts, mainly because I forgot to get some.<\/p>\n

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When I went to our local natural foods market to gather the less mainstream ingredients like brown rice puffed cereal, almond butter and brown rice syrup<\/a>, I noticed a package of millet puffs<\/a> which I’d never tried before and it seemed like a good fit for the recipe. They’re round and cute and puffy, what’s not to love?<\/p>\n

And instead of using brown rice puffed cereal, which has a lot of corn syrup and maple syrup and such, I got plain puffed rice<\/a> with no added sugar. My version includes golden raisins, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, raw whole almonds, cashews and pistachios.<\/p>\n

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The whole things came together easily and quickly, and I popped the pan into the fridge eager to cut them up and have a Martha moment with twine and parchment paper.<\/p>\n

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They look like yummy breakfast bars, don’t they? Sadly, I was too enthusiastic with the puffed elements, it seems, and the bars are rather…squishy. Not chewy, but squishy. Instead of hardening, the syrup mixture got absorbed into the puffs, resulting in sponginess.<\/p>\n

They still taste delicious if you can get beyond the texture, and I like that the brown rice syrup adds a lighter sweet touch. The key is less puff and more nuts and dried fruits. Lesson learned. I would recommend that you follow the recipe ingredients ratio exactly as posted here<\/a>, rather than trying the toss-’em-and-see-what-happens method I utilized. I love the way they look, though, so here’s another photo op:<\/p>\n

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Do you know of other good breakfast bar recipes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On most days, I pin willy nilly to my pinterest boards, guided only by the visual sumptuousness of the images. One day I will embark on all the DIYs I’ve pinned, but for now, I am content with trying out a recipe or two a week. The one that caught my eye this week is the cherry, pistachio & coconut breakfast bars, but I made quite a few modifications to my version. For starters, I didn’t use any cherries since I’ve overloaded on the fruit in Michigan so I’m avoiding them for the time being. I also omitted the toasted coconuts, mainly because I forgot to get some. When I went to our local natural foods market to gather the less mainstream ingredients like brown rice puffed cereal, almond butter and brown rice syrup, I noticed a package of millet puffs which I’d never tried before and it seemed like a good fit for the recipe. They’re round and cute and puffy, what’s not to love? And instead of using brown rice puffed cereal, which has a lot of corn syrup and maple syrup and such, I got plain puffed rice with no added sugar. My version includes golden raisins, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, raw whole almonds, cashews and pistachios. The whole things came together easily and quickly, and I popped the pan into the fridge eager to cut them up and have a Martha moment with twine and parchment paper. They look like yummy breakfast bars, don’t they? Sadly, I was too enthusiastic with the puffed elements, it seems, and the bars are rather…squishy. Not chewy, but squishy. Instead of hardening, the syrup mixture got absorbed into the puffs, resulting in sponginess. They still taste delicious if you can get beyond the texture, and I like that the brown rice syrup adds a lighter sweet touch. The key is less puff and more nuts and dried fruits. Lesson learned. I would recommend that you follow the recipe ingredients ratio exactly as posted here, rather than trying the toss-’em-and-see-what-happens method I utilized. I love the way they look, though, so here’s another photo op: Do you know of other good breakfast bar recipes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cooking","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}