OM Granola by Joan

To create this recipe, I googled lots of granola recipes and then made it my way. There are so many great recipes for granola, you can't go wrong by following any one of them. Use them (including mine) and tweak as you like. As long as you don’t burn it, granola is very forgiving, delicious, and nutritious served with a non-GMO nut milk and 1/2 banana).

Pre-heat oven to 250F.

Step I  (everything organic, of course):

1 lb. rolled oats

1 cup slivered almonds

½ cup pumpkin seeds

½ cup sunflower seeds

¼ cup sesame seeds

1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes

Bake this for about 30 minutes in a warm (not hot) oven. About 250 degrees, top shelves. Stir every 10 or 15 minutes so it doesn’t burn. After 30 minutes, turn off oven and let the mixture sit for another 15 minutes.

Step II. Meanwhile, I mixed these together:

½ cup chopped pecans

½ cup currents
1/2 cup raisins

¼ cup cashews

¼ cup dried wild blueberries

2/3 cups goji berries

¼ cup dried cranberries
1/3 cup chopped dates

1/3 cup milled flax seeds
1/2 cup hemp seeds!

Step III. When the oat mixture is just starting to brown, take it out of the oven. Cool it and mix with the raisins and nuts. 

I also heated two tablespoons of No Bee Honee with two tablespoons of Maple Syrup and mixed it into the granola. Not necessary, but quite beautiful.

Voila!

Giving new meaning to OMG!

NB: This looks like a lot of work, but it is not. It makes a lot of granola, and it’s much less expensive than buying granola readymade.

Juno, Saki, MacGregor waiting for theirs. :-)