Spelt Breakfast Bars + Tofu Patties and Apple Success!

So I woke up and the windows looked like this: ^

In an ideal world I would have had the gumption to make it to my painting theory class. But it's a record blizzard and I'm well, a flake. Plus it's my last class before vacation, so nertz to walking in the snow for an hour!!!

I went shopping for dried papaya instead. :DDDD

The happy-surprise portion of the morning was discovering that the old-school apple drying worked! I can't believe it only took 1 night! They're a little on the thin and fragile side though, so I'm trying again with thicker slices this time, and I'm leaving the peels on because A: they taste good and B: skins are punk, haha.

Due to apple-having and papaya-buying I finally got to try Cassie's amaranth bars, which I should probably call Spelt Bars because I couldn't find amaranth flour at all, but whatever now I have a bag of spelt flour to play with! I haven't tried one yet cause they're all wrapped with plastic and ready for throwing in my bag on the way out the door, but they smell great, and I lovelovelove that there's no added sugar or oil in them. It's basically like my usual bag of trail mix except they're chewy and oaty and if you put foil on them they would sell for $1.49 each.
(my version is made with dates, almonds, pumpkin seeds, cranberries, apples and papaya, yum!)

Also, last night I tried the awesome tofu patties from Tofu For Two, and I had to stop myself from eating all the mash from out of the bowl, seriously! There were some structural problems, but I drained the 'fu without being told to and I halved the recipe, so it's definitely my fault and sprinkling some extra water and soy sauce in there fixed it pretty well. And once they were cooked the texture was good and chewy with sun-dried tomato tahini goodness all over, which nicely masked my lack of sauce-making ability for another night. hee.

PS: my oven got fixed !! ^____________^