Sad Panda kind of day. Baking time.

When I am bummed I tend to bake or cook in general. Making something tasty for someone else seems to help cheer me even if it's just a little bit. I took a prego test today and it was negative. We were hoping. Even with my mixed emotions (aka fear of being super big again) I am a lot sadder/upset than I thought I would be. It was our one chance for a while. Oh well. It must not be time yet and I know God will bless us with a little one when it's time. Even if that means we need a little help from the Drs. and a little more time.

So. Back to my quest for some cheer today I decided to make strawberry bars while listening to some Pandora. I made ours with sellou but you can certainly make them with a graham cracker crust which would be just as yummy. I had the sellou already prepared from when my mother in law was here so I will place a link to a sellou recipe if you want to be frisky and make some. It is delish on its own or in yogurt. I mostly eat it in yogurt like you would granola. (video is from Cooking with Alia on YouTube)

Strawberry Sellou Bars

Sellou Soft Crust Recipe

1 cup sellou
6 TBS light margarine or butter
3 TBS splenda brown sugar
2 TBS or so sweet rice flour (almond, coconut, or white would work too)

Melt the butter in a small sauce pan. Make sure the sellou has the lumps mashed out. Mix the brown sugar into the sellou and pour the melted butter over. Stir. Add the rice flour little by little until it has thickened to a brownie batter texture. Pour into a 8x8 dish and bake at 375F about 30 min. When its finished it will be soft but your butter knife should come out clean and look something like this. Let cool completely.



Strawberry Filling

2 pints fresh strawberries hulled and sliced.
1 1/5 cups cold water
2 TBS cornstarch
3 TBS splenda
1 package sugar free strawberry jello (small box)
Light cool whip would be a nice topping when you served but optional.

Place water and cornstarch in med saucepan. Stir until there are no lumps. Heat to boiling and stir constantly about 2 min until liquid thickens. Remove from heat and stir in splenda and jello packet until all combined. Fold in fresh strawberries. Pour over cooled sellou soft crust. Cover for 2 hours to set in the fridge and then enjoy! (It's going in the fridge!)



And after it has set....

To accompany dessert tonight will be an Asian grilled fish salad with the fixins and a homemade rice wine vinegar toasted sesame dressing. And most importantly some much needed snuggle time with the hubs watching Attila we just got in from Netflix.