Sometimes around this time of the year I get a little overzealous about all of the summertime fruit that's in peak season. I eat a ton of fruit, but I wind up getting excited and buying more fruit than even I can eat before it gets too ripe. Case in point was a few weeks ago, when I found myself driving past a strawberry farm stand while out running errands. I simply had to pop in and buy not one, not two, but three pints of strawberries (it was a buy more kind of deal!)... after I had just nabbed a big bag of cherries and a yuuuugggge container of blueberries, on top of my usual banana and apple purchases. For the next few days, I ate lots of fruit: threw some on top of smoothie bowls, in my cereal, mixed in with yogurt, on its own as a healthy dessert... but I couldn't eat all of the ... [Read More]
breakfast bars
PB & J Oatmeal Crumble Bars
Happy Friday friends! So, when a new recipe idea doesn't turn out exactly how I want it to, there are two conclusions I come to: 1.) I just fuhgeddaboudit, or 2.) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again! Today's recipe is a case of something working out the second time around. Some of you may remember that a few months ago, I included the below photo in a weekend recap: This was the first run of testing out my idea for PB & J bars, and while they tasted great, they just weren't holding together well at all. Since the ingredients seemed to work well together and it was just a texture issue, I gave it a second go a few weeks ago. This time I adjusted a few ingredients and BOOM! The recipe became a winner. ... [Read More]