I have 30+ years worth of magazine clippings of interest and recipes, all compiled in 6 hefty binders.

Here is one of those recipe clippings, making these tasty, portable snacks, a cross between a cookie and a granola bar. Any of the seed/nut/dried fruit combo can be replaced with whatever you like, or to just give this recipe endless variety.

Makes 20

• 3/4 cup white quinoa
• 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1/2 cup shelled raw sunflower seeds
• 1/2 cup shelled raw pistachios, chopped
• 1 cup dried apricots, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs plus 1 large egg white, lightly beaten
• Vegetable-oil cooking spray

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Rinse quinoa thoroughly in a fine sieve; drain. Bring 1 1/2 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add quinoa; return to a boil. Stir quinoa; cover, and reduce heat. Simmer until most liquid is absorbed and quinoa is slightly undercooked, about 12 minutes; transfer to a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, fluffing with a fork occasionally, until pale golden, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool in a large bowl.
2. Spread oats on baking sheet; bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes. Add oats to quinoa. Spread seeds on baking sheet; bake until lightly toasted, about 7 minutes. Add to quinoa mixture; let cool. Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees.
3. Toss nuts, apricots, sugar, and salt with quinoa mixture. Beat honey, oil, and vanilla into eggs; stir into quinoa mixture.
4. Line a 12-by-17-inch baking sheet with parchment; lightly coat with cooking spray. Spoon 1/4 cup batter onto sheet for each cluster; space 3 inches apart. Flatten to 1/4 inch thick. Bake, rotating sheet halfway through, until crisp, about 25 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Store, loosely covered with foil, up to 2 days.

From Martha Stewart Living, October 2004