After I pulled these out of the oven, let them cool, cut them into four, and took my first bite I had a vision. I imagined Ben, Sam, Will, and myself sitting around our kitchen table on a busy Fall morning eating these bars, sipping hot hazelnut coffee, and discussing what we were each going to do that day. Lots of silly fantasy thoughts go through my head everyday.This time every year I look back on my childhood and how excited I would get thinking about the upcoming holiday season.  Every year since Will was born Ben and I have forced him to watch the exact same set of holiday cartoons we watched as children in hopes they will elicit the same feelings in him they did for us when we were little. We did the same thing to Sam.
This year Will fell in love with the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin cartoon. He’s memorized it and now I’m sick to death of it! He wants to watch it every single morning over and over again! I suppose I can only blame myself. But, it’s making me reconsider the rest of the retro holiday cartoons. How many times do I really want to watch or listen to the Peanuts Gang act out the nativity? I’m really going to have to mull this one over before we pull the trigger on Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch, and Frosty this year.

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Bacon and Oat Breakfast Bars

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup 160 g steel cut oats
• 6 oz. Canadian-style bacon chopped into ½ inch pieces
• ½ cup 60 g oat flour
• ¼ cup 30 g chopped walnuts
• 1 oz. 28 g dried apple chips
• ½ tsp. dried orange peel
• ½ tsp. ground coriander
• ¼ tsp. ground clove
• ¼ tsp. kosher salt
• 4 egg whites
• ¼ cup 2 fl. oz. plain cashew milk
• ¼ cup 76 g agave

Instructions

1. Soak steel cut oats by covering them with water in a medium sized bowl for at least 2 hours.
2. Preheat your oven to 350°F. Line an 8” x 8” x 2” baking pan with parchment paper.
3. Drain oats and return the drained oats to a medium sized mixing bowl.
4. Add the Canadian Bacon, flour, nuts, dried fruit, and spice to the oats. Stir to combine.
5. In a small mixing bowl combine the egg whites, milk, and agave. Whisk to combine.
6. Add the egg mixture to the oat mixture. Stir to combine.
7. Scrape mixture into your lined pan and spread out evenly.
8. Bake bars for 30 minutes.
9. Let bars cool in the pan for a few minutes.
10. Lift bars from pan by grasping the edges of the parchment paper.
11. Set bars on a cutting board.
12. Slice bars into 4 squares or 8 triangles. EAT!!!

Meanwhile I’ll enjoy my breakfast in the form of a Bacon and Oat Bar. Have a wonderful weekend!