The problem with making energy bars that are so good is that we eat them all in a few days. A few while biking...the rest with coffee, for breakfast, for a midnight snack. There is so much cheap and delicious dried fruit available in Israel that it's easy to pack the bars full of figs, dates, raisins, apricots and cranberries.



Here's the basic recipe:

2 cups of dried fruit: chop, not too finely, but to a size that's easy to eat
1.25 cups of nuts: roughly chopped
2 cups of crushed oatmeal.

In a bowl, mix 2eggs, 3 ripe bananas, a dash of vanilla, a pinch of salt if desired.

MIX above ingredients.

Melt over low flame: 1 ounce of butter and 1/2 cup of brown sugar

ADD to first mixture and stir it all togther

Put in a buttered/floured medium size baking dish and bake for about 30 min at 350F. (note..this is not so precise, so keep checking the bars to make sure they are done and not burning)

There are many ways to modify the recipe: use honey for part of all of the brown sugar, use sweet potatoes(cooked) for some of the banana, add chocolate chips and cut back on the sugar, oil instead of butter...whatever you can think of should work!