Blueberries, yum.

So this morning I had a hankering for Oatmeal Blueberry bars.  I love blueberries, and I love oatmeal.  I also had some cashews, and the flavour of the cashews with blueberries is just decadent. 

In the oven right now are my bars, thrown together because I love making sweet breakfast things with no recipe.  It is what I do, much to my wife's chagrin.  She is an excellent cook, so much so that you can give her ingredients and she will measure them out to make a perfect dish.  You give me ingredients and I might just snack on them while I look for the sugar. 

Oh, and we are vegan.  I should mention that. 

Back to the bars.  The crust is an oatmeal/soymilk/baking soda/egg replacer/cane sugar conglomeration that tasted pretty darn good in the bowl.  We were out of flour (except for rice flour, and, well, I don't like rice flour that much) so I really hope this turns out. I heated up the blueberries with a bit of cane sugar on the stove, until they started juicing up nicely.  Stained my cream coloured stir spoon, but it looks rather prettier that way, with streaks of purple and blue.  I poured that mixture over top of the crust and quickly candied some cashews and pressed them into the mixture. 

It looks absolutely gorgeous, and it smells even better.  You know, even if it doesn't come out as "bars", I think the kids and the wife will still love it.  I know I will, with those flavours how could I miss!

Well, I hope so anyhow.

We were also hoping to get to Bard in the Valley today, but with the rain we aren't feeling that outdoorsy.  Not to mention my butt hurts from tennis yesterday.  Good stuff, yeah!  The production that Bard in the Valley is putting on is A Midsummers Night Dream.  I've never seen it as a play, I was very intrigued.  I did see that movie that was made in the 90s that was loosely based on it...it had Kirstin Dunst in it, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.  The movie is a great filler movie, but nothing I would have ever paid to go see in the theater.  Good thing I didn't. 

Off to go check on breakfast!!