Granola: with manuka honey and with agave and maple syrups. To encourage myself to get up early I have started making delicious things to have for breakfast. This recipe came from The Cook’s Companion, but I changed a few things like leaving out most of the dried fruit because I don’t like it that much. I stole all the ingredients at once filling a whole backpack! So many packets of nuts! I just used some pitted dates and dried cranberries (not in the original recipe.) Other than that it has between 50 and 100g each of these nuts: pecans, blanched almonds, walnuts, cashews and hazelnuts (another of my additions), wheatgerm, 2 cups of oats, and bran flakes. Of course you could just use any combination of your favourite seeds, nuts and dried fruits. Then I heat up and mix 1/4 C each of grapeseed oil and honey, agave or maple syrup, pour that over everything except the dried fruit, spread the mixture out on a tray to no more than a couple of cms thick, and cook in the oven for an hour, stirring it up a couple of times during cooking. When everything is nice and golden brown and a bit crunchy take it out, mix it up and add the chopped dried fruit. Store in an airtight jar. I’ve been making enough to fill a big 2L jar and it’s so popular in my house that’s only lasting about a week! Even though nobody in my house is vegan/doesn’t eat honey, I split the batch in two and made one with manuka honey and one with equal parts maple and agave syrups. I thought this was unnecessary and over the top but the next day I had some vegan friends over for dinner who prefered not to eat honey and they loved the vegan version. Actually, my housemate prefers that too and since the batch pictured most of the batches I’ve made have been with the vegan syrup blend. Manuka honey is really really good for you though, and Australian made whereas the other two syrups are both imported. Duh actually that’s not true, I was thinking of my other honey. Manuka is from New Zealand. Still, much closer than Mexico and Canada. And really really good for you.

Granola: with manuka honey and with agave and maple syrups.

To encourage myself to get up early I have started making delicious things to have for breakfast. This recipe came from The Cook’s Companion, but I changed a few things like leaving out most of the dried fruit because I don’t like it that much. I stole all the ingredients at once filling a whole backpack! So many packets of nuts! I just used some pitted dates and dried cranberries (not in the original recipe.) Other than that it has between 50 and 100g each of these nuts: pecans, blanched almonds, walnuts, cashews and hazelnuts (another of my additions), wheatgerm, 2 cups of oats, and bran flakes. Of course you could just use any combination of your favourite seeds, nuts and dried fruits. Then I heat up and mix 1/4 C each of grapeseed oil and honey, agave or maple syrup, pour that over everything except the dried fruit, spread the mixture out on a tray to no more than a couple of cms thick, and cook in the oven for an hour, stirring it up a couple of times during cooking. When everything is nice and golden brown and a bit crunchy take it out, mix it up and add the chopped dried fruit. Store in an airtight jar. I’ve been making enough to fill a big 2L jar and it’s so popular in my house that’s only lasting about a week!

Even though nobody in my house is vegan/doesn’t eat honey, I split the batch in two and made one with manuka honey and one with equal parts maple and agave syrups. I thought this was unnecessary and over the top but the next day I had some vegan friends over for dinner who prefered not to eat honey and they loved the vegan version. Actually, my housemate prefers that too and since the batch pictured most of the batches I’ve made have been with the vegan syrup blend. Manuka honey is really really good for you though, and Australian made whereas the other two syrups are both imported. Duh actually that’s not true, I was thinking of my other honey. Manuka is from New Zealand. Still, much closer than Mexico and Canada. And really really good for you.

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