Oar House Restaurant-Pensacola-Review

OAR HOUSE

The Oar House is a restaurant in Pensacola, FL overlooking the BAHIA MAR MARINA. It has an interesting history of enduring fire and tornado and is now open though there is no actual restaurant structure. :) It is all dining on the deck right on the harbor and the kitchen is in a temporary structure until the rebuild of the restaurant.

I ordered the fish basket and a margarita. The shrimp was tender and the breaded coating was fantastic. The margarita was also good!

The waitstaff was incredibly friendly and it was a great way to end the day in Pensacola.

I didn't order the Endangered Basket. :) Of course, it's a joke! This one gave me a chuckle.

If you're in Pensacola, Florida, this is a great restaurant with a fun bar, good entertainment, and a restaurant that has pressed on through some tough times!

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Trail Mix

Another happy snack around our house is trail mix. The typical trail mix is not only expensive, but really high in salt and sugar, not to mention the added sulfur in the dried fruit. Our trail mix contains:

• unsulfured dried fruit (cranberries, mangoes, pineapple, etc)
• plain bagged bulk nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans)
• fruit-sweetened yogurt raisins (no high fructose corn syrup, no added color)
• Kashi Heart to Heart cereal (the girls love the heart shapes)
• Cascadian Farms multi-grain cereal squares

Another favorite camping and road trip food!

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Breakfast Bars

I recently was the recipient of the book "Deceptively Delicious" by Jessica Seinfeld. She uses alot of the same kinds of philosophies my friends and myself already use (for instance, "spiking" spaghetti sauce with pureed carrots, spinach, zucchini, etc).

The breakfast bars are a great recipe (though I altered it, like I alter just about every recipe ;) It uses whole oats, butter or smart margarine (I used the Smart Balance), sugar (I used organic sugar and cut the amount), whole fruit no sugar added preserves (I didn't use any with Splenda, just the fruit preserves), and spinach puree.



This recipe uses a spinach puree mixed in with the all fruit topping. I used blueberry for half and black raspberry for the other half of the batch. The favorite in our family is the black raspberry.

These deserve and A+ rating! We made a big batch for our road trip and they were gobbled up. It was so good knowing our kids were getting their daily dose of spinach. If you cut the added sugar in the oat part of the bar, it is surprisingly low sugar. In comparison to the store bought bars (we buy the Envirobars--$3.50 for 6 bars) it is very LOW COST.

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