mmm, homemade granola
Yep, Baby Girl still hasn’t arrived. Which means that I’m really nesting now. Baking. Sewing. Knitting. (but not cleaning – somehow I haven’t had a burning desire to get my 6-day-overdue belly bent over to clean things …)
And yesterday? I made granola. (and a few other things :D)
(this recipe is from a woman in my MOPS group – thank you Cathy! I tweaked it just a bit)
1/3 cup oil
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup shredded coconut
2/3 cup nuts, roughly chopped
2/3 cup raisins (I used a mix of craisins and raisins)
2 1/2 cups oatmeal
- combine sugar, honey and oil in a saucepan and cook until sugar melts and begins to boil. Add vanilla and cinnamon, remove from heat.
- combine oats, coconut, nuts and raisins in a large bowl. Add sugar mixture, and stir until oats are well coated.
- Cover a jellyroll pan with foil (for easy cleanup) and spread oat mixture evenly in pan.
- bake at 325 for 30 minutes, stirring twice during baking.
- Store in an airtight container.
Once it’s cooled, you could also stir in other things – chocolate chips, perhaps?
And I also finally got around to making curtains for our kitchen window :)