Apricot Hempseed Bars

I'm making these for my friend and bringing them to warped tour on friday wrapped in tin foil in a tote bag. They seem healthful, delicious, easily transportable, and full of nutrients I probably don't get enough of (omega 3). Adapted from a recipe off the Whole Foods iPhone app... yup...

-1 cup shelled hempseeds
-1 cup pitted dates
-3 cups dried apricots
-some flax seed, raw sunflower seeds, raw almonds, WHATEVER!
-juice from one lemon
-vanilla extract (I'm using a vanilla bean my friend Jeremy picked from a garden and mailed to me from Malaysia... SERIOUSLY!)
-nutmeg
-cloves

Put everything in a food processor. Foodprocess it. Press it down with a spatula into a pan that you already lined with wax paper. Cover, refrigerate, cut into squares and feed them to your friends... aka this scaryass dude:
(photo courtesy of equally scaryass dude Nate Shannon)

celebrity cooking

to attract more traffic to my blog and exploit my friends for my own internet notoriety and eventual fame, the ever attractive and popular liam p wilson, bassist for the dillinger escape plan, is making a guest appearance today. this afternoon, we made a delicious thai-inspired coconut curry.

i was gonna post a picture of liam "shredding" on bass, as they call it, but i don't feel like googling for one, so here he is tasting the delicious curry and looking like a creep.


ingredients:
-2 cans of coconut milk
-small can of bamboo shoots
-2-3 heapings tsps of green curry paste (to taste)
-half a bunch fresh spinach, washed and chopped
-1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
-one red pepper, sliced
-one vidalia onion, chopped
-6-8 leaves of fresh basil, chopped
-3 cloves of garlic, minced
-shiitake mushrooms, sliced
-salt to taste
-rice or noodles

in a skillet or saucepan, bring the coconut milk to a boil add the sweet potatoes and cook them until soft in the coconut milk. add the curry paste, chopped spinach, and basil. in a separate skillet, sautee the onion in some oil, turn down the heat and add the garlic, then add the mushrooms and the red peppers. sautee them for a few minutes, and then dump them in the other saucepan where, by now, the potato should be about cooked. add salt to taste and serve over rice or noodles-- i like the soba buckwheat and wild yam noodles.