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my house this weekend

Posted on | December 22, 2009 | 11 Comments

When I wasn’t busy keeping Mack out of my cookies,

I made homemade granola.  It’s really easy and even though it calls for a lot of ingredients at first, once you buy the stuff, it makes a ton of granola.  The best part is that if you don’t have an ingredient, you can substitute something else! Don’t have any soy nuts?  Throw in an extra cup of oatmeal!  I do it all the time.

Here’s my general list of ingredients:

3 cups oats (I prefer old fashioned, if I win the lottery, I’ll try steel cut)

1 cup soy nuts

1/2 cup flax seeds

1/2 cup sesame seeds (which I didn’t have, so I doubled the flax seeds)

1 cup wheat germ

1 cup sunflower seeds

1/2 cup pumpkin seeds

1/2 cup coconut

1 cup slivered almonds

1/2 cup pecan pieces

1/2 cup broken cashews

Then you add:

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup molasses

1/4 cup honey

And mix it all together.

I firmly believe that using your hands is the only way to get a good mix.

Spread it onto two cookie sheets and bake at 300 for 15 minutes, stir, then bake another 10 minutes.

After you take the granola out of the oven, sprinkle liberally with dried fruit.  I usually use currants and golden raisins, cranberries or apricots if I have them.

The above recipe makes four quarts, which I store in ziploc bags in the freezer and use one at a time.  I can’t have too much of it around because I’ll eat it like candy.  This weekend I made a double batch – some for us and some for gifts – and baked 200+ of Mack’s favorite cookies.

I also spent a good part of the weekend tethered.  Yes, that is a hook, not needles.  Crochet intarsia hell.  This is truly a labor of love, and it deserves its own post – soon!

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