Bar recipe from IRONM4N Shelley

Shelley posted this recipe to TRI-DRS, and it sounded so good (I am always hungry, like Holly) that I had to get it up online so that I could keep it on file for my next big event. Or next snack. Maybe if I eat enough of them I can be an Ironman someday just like Shelley.

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For those who don't like the cardboard chewyness of Power Bars, here is something someone gave me yesterday on our little race, it was great!! He rolled these things like little cigars and stored them in his Bento Box. Great idea.

PB Recipe:

• 1 cup: Large flake rolled oats (not the quick cook kind - the real stuff)
• 1/3 cup: Wheat germ (the best part of the wheat kernel that you don't get in processed flour)
• 1 cup: Rice crispies
• 1/2 cup: Chocolate chips (the sweeter the better - but hey, it's your taste)
• 1/4 cup: Raisins
• 1 tsp: Sugar
• 1/4 tsp: Salt (1/4 tsp might be too much. I don't know how much I used. I always salt to taste. You can add more but you can never take it out.)
• Peanut butter
• Rice paper

In a blender pulverize the oats to a coarse flour consistency and dump into a mixing bowl. Crunch the rice crispies in the blender as fine or coarse as you like and add to the mixing bowl. Shred the chocolate chips leaving some large chunks is desirable (the blender works fine and it already needs to be cleaned). Add the wheat germ. Coarsely chop the raisins and add to the bowl Add the salt and sugar and mix together.

Add a little extra whole large flake oats for some more texture.

Take a sample taste of the dry mixture. Add more of anything and season to taste.

Slap a dollop of peanut butter on a plate and fold in enough dry mixture to get the consistency of thick cookie dough. Keep adding peanut butter and the dry mix being mindful to maintain the right consistency until you get the desired quantity.

Roll into 1/2" logs 3 to 4" long. Soak a rice paper in warm water until it goes clear and gets limp. Wrap the log with rice paper and close off the ends with as little an amount of the rice paper as you can manage (just to save chewing effort come eat'n time). Place on cooling rack until rice paper has dried out.

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Thank you, Shelley!!!