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Healthy Cookie Bars
Jul 7, 2009 Random 2 Comments
On my wife’s old blog (which is no longer active) there was a recipe for healthy cookie bars. We tweaked it a little bit to make it even healthier and I wanted to write it down here because they are too good to forget.
Combine:
3/4 cup canola oil (I suppose you could use olive oil, but I don’t know how the taste would change)
1 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla
Sift in and blend:
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Stir in:
1 cups quick oats
1/2 cup chocolate chips (more or less, depending on preference)
Press into 9×13 glass pan, sprayed with olive oil (or other nonfat cooking spray). Bake at 350 for 14 minutes. Set glass pan on cooling rack to let cool.
EDIT: Ok, so I realize that a lot of people are probably put off by the fact that “healthy” and “cookie” are in the same sentence. I’ll post a picture the next time I make these to help convince you that these are GOOD. Don’t write them off just because it says they are “healthy”.
Small Tweaks
May 19, 2009 Site News 1 Comment
I made some small changes to the sidebars of this site, because I just noticed that the exact same content was available in two places so I wanted to eliminate the redundancy (archives and recent posts were in the tabbed box area and in the colums below it). I also added my Twitter feed. I know that only 2 people read this site anyway, and they probably had no idea that I was Twittering, so now everyone is a winner.
Computers?!
May 11, 2009 Code, Technology 1 Comment
My wife is always telling me that she doesn’t understand how with computers something can be working fine one day and then the next day it’s broken. Being a developer, I see this kind of thing all the time. “It was working a minute ago!”, or the times when you ask someone to look at something that isn’t working and when you go to show it to them it suddenly starts working perfectly.
Something like this happened to me recently. I was thinking about making some modifications to the iPhone app that I wrote, so I opened up the project and ran it but the audio wasn’t working and it locked up. I thought that was strange since I hadn’t changed anything since I ran it last, and the last time I ran it was when I was getting it ready to submit it to the App Store. I knew that this exact same code was currently for sale, which was a little disconcerting.
After a bit of digging I finally discovered an error that was complaining about a DivX file that couldn’t be found. I remembered installing a DivX codec to try and resolve a video playback issue I was having on my laptop but it doesn’t make any sense to me why that would have any effect on audio playback in the iPhone simulator. The DivX codec had not resolved my video issue, however, so I proceeded to uninstall it and sure enough my code started working again!
So those times when something is working one day and not the next, I’m 100% positive that there is a reason for it, because that’s just how computers work. Whether or not you can find the reason for it, the world may never know.