Sep 25 2008
Breakfast on the bus
Knowing that I’d be going to work early on Monday morning, and by bus (rather than my usual bicycle) I made these on Sunday night to ease my early rise the next day.
- Breakfast Bars
I really enjoyed my Sunday evening domesticity, stirring together the veritable goodness that goes into these, adding a good dollop of badness (in the form of condensed milk!) and then baking slowly so that the house filled with warm milky smells. I also made some flapjack for work and cooked the Italian sausages in hot tomato sauce and polenta and felt the right Domestic Godess.
As for the eating, these were very much up my street. We omitted the coconut from the recipe and upped all the other ‘flavours’ (the craisins, the mixed seeds and the peanuts). However for Dougal this meant they were a bit too seedy. (He likes to keep it clean!) I like my fibre rich chewy bars…but I expect that when I make these again I would probably err less on the side of pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and more on the side of nuts…maybe some almonds or some hazelnuts.
I am happily munching my way through these; with morning coffee at work or on the bus if I’m doing an early start. And do you know what- they’re just like posh cereal bars, only I made them.
what recipe book is that in? the kids would love these.
Dear Goodness wooooman! It’s in Nigella Express like most of what I’m cooking here :o)
I love these, they are so addictive! Next time I make them I think I’ll add pecans :)
Loving your site, btw! I’ve also tried a lot of NE recipes, about 45. And there are loads more I really want to try.
Oh yum… do you think they’d work sans nuts? I am withholding nuts from the sprogs til they’re older because of a family history of allergies… but darn if those don’t look fantastic.
That recipe alone might make NE worth a go for me. She should pay you for all the free advertising!
I totally think these could lose the peanuts- I’m never entirely sure about plain peanuts in isolation from other nuts- particularly if you upped the craisin content. If you felt you ought to lose the pumpkin/sunflower/sesame seeds too (I know they are sometimes co-processed with nuts) then you might have to re-brand them milky craisin flapjacks to keep Trading Standards happy….but they’d still be gooooood.
You could probably fling other dried fruit in too- some proper, non-fattened up with oil, dried apricots perhaps?