i love granola. in the community where i live, the bakery makes the granola — but it has honey & i just cannot eat (conventional) honey. that is a very different discussion, of course…the point here is: everyone eats granola all of the time here but i can’t & usually that’s fine with me. usually. every once in a while i get a wicked craving for it — tonight was one of those times. i decided to just make it myself! even though i have never made granola before. i really enjoy making recipes up as i go along, i rarely follow a recipe at all & when i do i disregard half of the suggestions. this is not an exact recipe because i eyeballed almost everything & followed no general guidelines. this is highly experimental granola!! it’s in the oven now…hopefully it turns out ok :/

anyway, i’ll give you the ingredients list:

• rolled oats
• sunflower oil
• maple syrup
• 2 SMALL HANDFULS of unrefined sugar
• 2 PINCHES of flour
• 1 PINCH cinnamon
• 1 PINCH nutmeg
• 1 PINCH ginger
• raisins
• crushed walnuts
• flax seeds
• sunflower seeds
• pumpkin seeds
• 1 TBS crunchy peanut butter
• 1 TBS earth balance

SO EXCITED, Y’ALL

EDIT: i baked this around 350 for like 15 minutes & took the granola out of the oven half-way through to mix it up. add the raisins, walnuts, & all the seeds only AFTER the oats have been baked & cooled.