September 2, 2008
How to Make Granola
- Buy a Lock and Lock Food Dispenser.
- Buy two jelly roll pans (from Bed Bath and Beyond, with coupons, because I haven’t owned jelly roll pans for ages.).
- Find a friend with a recipe.
- Get a new stove, because the old one isn’t working. If you’re lucky, like me, you’ll get a fairly new one on Freecycle.
- Be grateful that your friend has a great granola recipe:
7 cups oats
1 cup raw wheat germ
1 cup shredded coconut
1-3 cups nuts of your choice
1 cup oil
1 cup water
1 cup brown sugar
1. Preheat oven to 250° F.
2. Mix oats, wheat germ, coconut, and nuts in a large bowl.
3. Blend oil, water, and brown sugar in a blender. Add to dry mixture. Mix well.
4. Layer on two jelly roll pans.
5. Bake for one hour, mixing occasionally.
Personally, I add the nuts after the baking. And this time I added raisins.
Today’s garage haul
- One mouse-eaten leather backpack
- One unharmed but still kind of gross leather backpack
- Random camping supplies
- Ski gloves (now living with the ski suit that no longer fits me. But maybe someday it will again.)
- Eyes Wide Shut ticket stub
- $4.60
- Several old organizer purses (the best kind)
- A family photo with wife #3
- An engagement photo with husband #1. I am thin. I look good. I keep the picture.
