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Monday, January 21, 2008

get your oats! this is a great snack that gives lots of energy!



ingredients
125 g butter
125 g demerara sugar
5 T golden syrup (maple as a substitute?)
225 g porrage oats
1 tsp ground ginger
raisins, cranberries



to do

1. oven 190 C, 375 F. grease 20 cm sandwich tin.
2. melt butter in pan and stir in sugar and syrup. add oats and ginger; mix well.
3. use back of metal spoon to press mixture evenly over the base of the tin and smooth over.
4. bake for 20 min. cool for 15 min then score into 8 wedges.
5. cool completely, turn out and break into wedges.

rhubarb fool

"what you looking at foo!?" fantastic healthy dessert!! (from sainsbury's magazine)

ingredients


350 g rhubarb, trimmed and chunked
few drops water
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 T golden caster sugar
2 cardamom pod
300 g fat free Greek yogurt

to do

oven 180 C. sprinkle rhubarb with water, vanilla and suar. bake 25 min, until soft. split open cardamom pods and crush with morar and pestle. let rhubarb cool and then (use slotted spoon) and but to blender until pureed. fold into yogurt. spoon into glasses and sprinkle with cardamom.