About Me

I love food and I love cooking. I am not a gourmet cook, and I can be intimidated by multi step crazy ingredient recipes that take hours to make! I love animals which has lead me to a plant based diet which makes me feel better. I believe you should make food that taste good and is good for you. I also believe that part of healthy eating is enjoying the process from start to finish. The enjoyment in creating your food I feels comes through in the taste. I hoping with this blog you will find recipes that you can make and enjoy if you’re a vegetarian, a meat eater in the mood for a meatless dish, or just some new ideas for your home menu. I will try to keep the recipes simple with whole healthy and easily accessible ingredients. I look forward to sharing with you my cooking adventures (and sometimes misadventures!) and I welcome your feedback and suggestions!!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Homemade Granola, my new best friend

I made some of this last weekend and it rapidly disappeared from the pantry!!  I had it with milk for breakfast, on yogurt for a snack, and just on its own 'cause its so darn delicious!
I made another batch and just had to share it with you!  So simple and all natural unlike some of those granolas you buy in a store.

Measure just like grandma used to do
dry:

2 1/2 cup oats
1 handful almond
1 handful pecans
palmful shredded coconut
some sunflower seeds
some pumpkin seeds
some sesame seeds
heapin handful of dried cranberries
chopped up dates
cinnamon
nutmeg

really use any combo of nuts/seeds/oats/dried fruit you like

wet:
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup oil (I used canola)
1 tbsp honey

directions

preheat oven to 350

mix dry ingredients except for fruit

then add wet ingredients and mix thoroughly

bake in oven on lightly greased sheet for 20-25 mins stirring once

take out cool and add fruit, I sprinkled mine with some ground flax at the end to to give it a little extra health punch!!

:)  ENJOY

now this granola doesn't really clump together, I'd prefer if it did but its so simple and delicious that it doesn't really matter....

YUMMMMM 

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