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diff --git a/_posts/2017-9-6-brian-bars.md b/_posts/2017-9-6-brian-bars.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2c56272..0000000 --- a/_posts/2017-9-6-brian-bars.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,105 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Brian Bars -description: >- - Cheap and easy to make, healthy, vegan, high-carb, high-protein. "The Good - Stuff". -updated: 2018-01-18 ---- - -It actually blows my mind it's been 4 years since I used this blog. It was -previously a tech blog, but then I started putting all my tech-related posts on -[the cryptic blog](https://cryptic.io). As of now this is a lifestyle/travel -blog. The me of 4 years ago would be horrified. - -Now I just have to come up with a lifestyle and do some traveling. - -## Recipe - -This isn't a real recipe because I'm not going to preface it with my entire -fucking life story. Let's talk about the food. - -Brian bars: - -* Are like Clif Bars, but with the simplicity of ingredients that Larabars have. -* Are easy to make, only needing a food processor (I use a magic bullet) and a - stovetop oven. -* Keep for a long time and don't really need refrigerating (but don't mind it - neither) -* Are paleo, vegan, gluten-free, free-range, grass-fed, whatever... -* Are really really filling. -* Are named after me, deal with it. - -I've worked on this recipe for a bit, trying to make it workable, and will -probably keep adjusting it (and this post) as time goes on. - -### Ingredients - -Nuts and seeds. Most of this recipe is nuts and seeds. Here's the ones I used: - -* 1 cup almonds -* 1 cup peanuts -* 1 cup walnuts -* 1 cup coconut flakes/shavings/whatever -* 1/2 cup flax seeds -* 1/2 cup sesame seeds - -For all of those above it doesn't _really_ matter what nuts/seeds you use, it's -all gonna get ground up anyway. So whatever's cheap works fine. Also, avoid -salt-added ones if you can. - -The other ingredients are: - -* 1 cup raisins/currants -* 1.5 lbs of pitted dates (no added sugar! you don't need it!) -* 2 cups oats - -### Grind up the nuts - -Throw the nuts into the food processor and grind them into a powder. Then throw -that powder into a bowl along with the seeds, coconuts, raisins, and oats, and -mix em good. - -I don't _completely_ grind up the nuts, instead leaving some chunks in it here -and there, but you do you. - -### Prepare the dates - -This is the harder part, and is what took me a couple tries to get right. The -best strategy I've found is to steam the dates a bit over a stove to soften -them. Then, about a cup at a time, you can throw them in the food processor and -turn them into a paste. You may have to add a little water if your processor is -having trouble. - -Once processed you can add the dates to the mix from before and stir it all up. -It'll end up looking something like cookie dough. Except unlike cookie dough -it's completely safe to eat and maybe sorta healthy. - -### Bake it, Finish it - -Put the dough stuff in a pan of some sort, flatten it out, and stick it in the -oven at like 250 or 300 for a few hours. You're trying to cook out the water you -added earlier when you steamed the dates, as well as whatever little moisture -the dates had in the first place. - -Once thoroughly baked you can stick the pan in the fridge to cool and keep, -and/or cut it up into individual bars. Keep in mind that the bars are super -filling and allow for pretty small portions. Wrap em in foil or plastic wrap and -take them to-go, or keep them around for a snack. Or both. Or whatever you want -to do, it's your food. - -### Cleanup - -Dates are simultaneously magical and the most annoying thing to work with, so -there's cleanup problems you may run into with them: - -Protip #1: When cleaning your processed date slime off of your cooking utensils -I'd recommend just letting them soak in water for a while. Dry-ish date slime -will stick to everything, while soaked date slime will come right off. - -Protip #2: Apparently if you want ants, dates are a great way to get ants. My -apartment has never had an ant problem until 3 hours after I made a batch of -these and didn't wipe down my counter enough. I'm still dealing with the ants. -Apparently there's enviromentally friendly ant poisons where the ants happily -carry the poison back into the nest and the whole nest eats it and dies. Which -feels kinda mean in some way, but is also pretty clever and they're just ants -anyway so fuck it. |