{"id":89,"date":"2014-03-19T23:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-03-19T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:13:51","slug":"oat-bars-chai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/oat-bars-chai\/","title":{"rendered":"Oat Bars and Chai"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting to make masala chai for a while, because it is delicious and because I wanted an excuse to use star anise. But I never had any star anise on hand.<\/p>\n

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\nUntil today! Well actually last week, but then we didn’t have any peppercorns or ginger. Today all of the ingredients came together in the kitchen, on the stovetop.<\/p>\n

I used this recipe<\/a> as a jumping off point for a chai “base” that can be heated with milk at a moment’s notice, like every afternoon when I’m feeling 4 o’clock sleepy. This is the kind of thing where you can really do whatever. I didn’t use vanilla or nutmeg, and, most significantly, I used six bags of tea (Irish Breakfast) instead of just four. I think it could even be stronger…<\/p>\n

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Continuing on my quest for good toddler snacks, I also made some oat bars this afternoon. I used this recipe<\/a> and while she explicitly states that they’re “NOT crunchy like a granola bar. They are chewy like thick muffin”, I was still a little disappointed. They are good–I made them with sliced almonds, pecans, dried apricots, shredded coconut, a little ground flax seed, and soy milk instead of milk. I didn’t really measure anything, except the oats and the milk. Again, it’s one of those recipes that has a lot of flexibility. <\/p>\n

Next time (and this is definitely a recipe I’m going to try again) I want to add pumpkin seeds instead of pecans (really I just used pecans this time because I didn’t have any pumpkin seeds and found a few pecans in the freezer) and use a flax egg instead of a real egg. I’m also thinking about adding a little oil? Or more oatmeal or just less liquid. Maybe some almond or peanut butter…I want something chewy like a candy bar, not like a muffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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