Introduction to "The Family That Cooks Together" and Jeffrey Zakarian's Home Kitchen

Hello everyone, I'm Jeffrey Zakarian, and welcome to my home kitchen where I'm excited to share with you a really amazing olive oil granola bar recipe from Madeleine's cookbook, featuring her sister. Today, we're going to make a delicious and healthy granola bar that will keep you full and easy to transport. As you can see, I'm in the company of my lovely daughter Madeline, who has graciously agreed to join me in this cooking adventure.

The Importance of Preparing Ingredients

Before we begin, I have some homework for all of you: please preheat your oven to 350 degrees, get a baking dish, and line it with cooking spray. This is crucial because the granola bars will stick to the pan if we don't grease it properly. Now that we've got our ingredients measured out, let's move on to the fun part – mixing everything together! As you can see, I have laid out all the dry ingredients in front of us: rolled oats, dry cranberries, cinnamon, brown sugar, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, and some more rolled oats reserved from the original recipe.

Mixing Wet and Dry Ingredients

Now it's time to add the wet ingredients to our dry mixture. As you can see, I have organic peanut butter, maple syrup, and olive oil ready to go. Make sure to ground up your brown sugar because sometimes it sticks together in a little ball – we don't want that! So, let's get started by adding these ingredients to our large bowl. While we're doing this, what I'll be doing is putting together the wet ingredients myself.

Preparing the Baking Pan

Now that we have all our ingredients mixed together, let's prepare our baking pan. We've got a lined baking pan with parchment paper, which will ensure that our granola bars come out perfectly. Before we pour in our mixture, make sure it's all spread evenly across the pan – we don't want any bare spots!

Baking the Granola Bars

Okay, now it's time to pop our granola bars into the oven! We'll be baking them at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until they're golden brown. As soon as they come out of the oven, let's hit pause and meet back here with Madeline so we can slice and taste together.

Slicing and Tasting the Granola Bars

Now that our granola bars are cool enough to handle, it's time to slice them up! I like to make sure they're cut into perfect squares or rectangles – after all, this is what makes a granola bar look like one. If you don't have time for them to cool completely, your cuts might not be as smooth and clean.

Sharing the Recipe with Madeline

It's now time for us to share our recipe with each other! I'll let Madeline give it a try first – she has her own special touches in mind that she thinks will make this granola bar even more delicious. And what do you think, everyone? Is there anything else we can add to this wonderful recipe?

Conclusion

Well, folks, that's it for today's episode of "The Family That Cooks Together"! I hope you enjoyed making these amazing olive oil granola bars with me and Madeline. With a mix of dry and wet ingredients, a bit of love, and some patience, we've managed to create a truly special treat that will satisfy your taste buds and keep you going all day long.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone I'm Jeffrey Zakarian as you can see I am in my home kitchen along with my lovely daughter Madeline and I am so excited you're joining us so we are going to make a really amazing olive oil granola bar from Madeleine's cookbook with her sister called the family that cooks together now granola bars are yummy but when made with the right ingredients they have a lot of healthy protein and they'll keep you full and they're easy to transport so we've laid out and measured all the ingredients this is very important misoplas right mise we can go like this we don't have to move we can just have fun which is what we're gonna have so before we begin you have some homework you should preheat your oven to 350 degrees you want to get a baking dish and line it with cooking spray very important because it'll stick yeah grease really important okay uh and that's it and we're gonna get cooking right this is very simple so first you're going to take a portion of the rolled oats and put it into the food processor It's gotta look like a powder right yeah how's that look uh yeah I think that's good okay so what you're gonna do with this is I have a large bowl here I'm just gonna hold the thing so it doesn't come out I'm gonna put that in there you wanna take that yep and then in a large bowl we're gonna add the dry cranberries it's like a dump and stir which is why it's so fun cinnamon brown sugar pumpkin seeds there's your sunflower seeds almonds and some more rolled oats that we reserve from the original recipe right so you have the other um rolled outs are like the finely ground ones and then you're just gonna add the actual roll Doge so why don't we start mixing these ingredients yep and while you're doing that what I'm going to just put these together these are these are the wet ingredients so organic peanut butter yeah and you're gonna make sure that you ground up your brown sugar because sometimes it sticks in like a little ball and you don't want that because you want to make sure it's easy very important so I added my maple syrup and now I'm going to put in my olive oil and whisk it up until it's nice and smooth foreign yeah I'm just gonna fold it because it's we're doing wet and to dry okay it looks so good I mean it's like a lot of this is great because I'm sure that most people have quite a few of these ingredients in the pantry right we all know about oatmeal and probably raisins and dried fruit of some kind again you can substitute the dried fruit and we're just going to put this in our lined baking pan with parchment that we've greased okay and then you want to make sure it is all the way spread out so you can get an even granola bar it's not all ah okay we're gonna put the granola bars in the oven for 30 minutes 350 degrees when they come out we're going to let them cool so hit pause and meet me back here we're going to slice and taste together thank you all right we have our granola bars out of the oven make sure they get chill before you cut it otherwise this cut will be a sloppy cut now we're going to make a first incision here you can cut these as small as big as you want I like to have them so they look like actual bars right I mean it's called a granola bar you need to have them chilled yep and then we're just going to put them on the plate yeah that put this one there look how good they look oh so good let's get another one here can we give me some room oh yeah it's that time Madeleine you can take a taste what you think ready your recipe do you want to share one with me here right here yeah oh thank you okay well gum hmm you know what the olive oil so unusual but like so perfect also the peanut butter yum it was good everything works a lot of flavor one of the best granola bars I've ever hadhello everyone I'm Jeffrey Zakarian as you can see I am in my home kitchen along with my lovely daughter Madeline and I am so excited you're joining us so we are going to make a really amazing olive oil granola bar from Madeleine's cookbook with her sister called the family that cooks together now granola bars are yummy but when made with the right ingredients they have a lot of healthy protein and they'll keep you full and they're easy to transport so we've laid out and measured all the ingredients this is very important misoplas right mise we can go like this we don't have to move we can just have fun which is what we're gonna have so before we begin you have some homework you should preheat your oven to 350 degrees you want to get a baking dish and line it with cooking spray very important because it'll stick yeah grease really important okay uh and that's it and we're gonna get cooking right this is very simple so first you're going to take a portion of the rolled oats and put it into the food processor It's gotta look like a powder right yeah how's that look uh yeah I think that's good okay so what you're gonna do with this is I have a large bowl here I'm just gonna hold the thing so it doesn't come out I'm gonna put that in there you wanna take that yep and then in a large bowl we're gonna add the dry cranberries it's like a dump and stir which is why it's so fun cinnamon brown sugar pumpkin seeds there's your sunflower seeds almonds and some more rolled oats that we reserve from the original recipe right so you have the other um rolled outs are like the finely ground ones and then you're just gonna add the actual roll Doge so why don't we start mixing these ingredients yep and while you're doing that what I'm going to just put these together these are these are the wet ingredients so organic peanut butter yeah and you're gonna make sure that you ground up your brown sugar because sometimes it sticks in like a little ball and you don't want that because you want to make sure it's easy very important so I added my maple syrup and now I'm going to put in my olive oil and whisk it up until it's nice and smooth foreign yeah I'm just gonna fold it because it's we're doing wet and to dry okay it looks so good I mean it's like a lot of this is great because I'm sure that most people have quite a few of these ingredients in the pantry right we all know about oatmeal and probably raisins and dried fruit of some kind again you can substitute the dried fruit and we're just going to put this in our lined baking pan with parchment that we've greased okay and then you want to make sure it is all the way spread out so you can get an even granola bar it's not all ah okay we're gonna put the granola bars in the oven for 30 minutes 350 degrees when they come out we're going to let them cool so hit pause and meet me back here we're going to slice and taste together thank you all right we have our granola bars out of the oven make sure they get chill before you cut it otherwise this cut will be a sloppy cut now we're going to make a first incision here you can cut these as small as big as you want I like to have them so they look like actual bars right I mean it's called a granola bar you need to have them chilled yep and then we're just going to put them on the plate yeah that put this one there look how good they look oh so good let's get another one here can we give me some room oh yeah it's that time Madeleine you can take a taste what you think ready your recipe do you want to share one with me here right here yeah oh thank you okay well gum hmm you know what the olive oil so unusual but like so perfect also the peanut butter yum it was good everything works a lot of flavor one of the best granola bars I've ever had\n"