Snacks

Here's a treat designed to please the little kid in all of us.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I still have days where I crave a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (on white bread, of course) with a handful (or three) of crispy potato chips and a tall glass of cold milk for lunch.  It was my favorite lunch as a kid, and still satisfies like nothing else can to this day.

Thankfully I've given up my childhood vice of eating "Peter Pan" creamy straight from the jar with a spoon (it wasn't a good look on me), but I bet I still eat a good old-fashioned PB & J about once a month.  If you haven't had one in years do yourself a favor and make one soon, it will make you smile.

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As you can tell by this picture, these are not the flapjacks we're accustomed to here in the States.  Here, when we talk about "flapjacks" or "hotcakes" or "griddle cakes", we're tossing about well known alias' for pancakes, those golden vehicles famed for delivering obscene amounts of melting butter and maple syrup into our systems.  Why do we have so many names for such a simple dish?  Who knows…….probably just to confound foreign visitors.

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I don't know about you all, but it seems like half of our food budget these days is spent on "healthy" snacks that the kids can bring to school for lunch or after-school sports.  Granola bars have long been a favorite of the gang, and with four kids shoving them into their backpacks as they race out the door each morning, we go through a ton of them each week.

I've experimented over the years with making homemade versions, but none have ever turned out that well.  They were either so sticky that you felt like you needed a bath after eating one, or so dry and boring that munching on one seemed only a small step removed from strapping on a horse's feed bag for a snack.  There had to be a better way……

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