coming off the fast, i have a craving for pizza and salsa and really good bread. after only five days!
knowing that i’d probably want some sort of sweet after cutting out sugars for a (work) week, i made oh she glows’ chia jam bars yesterday. i had a mishap with the first batch of jam, wherein i put it in the freezer to set more quickly and the bowl tipped over and set itself right in the freezer door shelf. a loud f-bomb was exclaimed, mostly because i had just nearly emptied two madagascar vanilla beans into the jam, and secondly, because i really wanted the end result.
luckily, i didn’t throw away the bean pods and was able to scrape more seeds, *and* i seems to hoard frozen fruit. i had more strawberries than i had initially thought and happily started the process over.
too many hours later, i had enough sun butter jam bars to last me a couple weeks. that is, until i eat them all.
the sweetener is coconut nectar, since i didn’t have any molasses or brown rice syrup.