Snackable, giftable, and of course, breakfastable…I love opening my pantry and seeing a container of homemade granola inside! I’ve been using this granola recipe since my friend Rach first made it when we were roommates. It’s super easy to make, and you can use whatever add-ins you like. This version has a couple different kinds of nuts, and shredded coconut, since I almost always have those around! Continue reading “Nutty Coconut Granola (and a Granola Master Plan).”
These chocolate peanut butter flax granola bars bring me great joy. They taste a lot like a candy bar, but they’re full of healthy stuff (oats! flax! nuts!) and aren’t nearly as indulgent as that blanket of chocolate makes them look. They’re chewy, peanut buttery, sweet and salty, and I keep running out of the ingredients because I can’t.stop.making.them. Continue reading “Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Flax Granola Bars.”
Thanks to all of you who entered the giveaway from last week, and a big congrats to the winner, Linda! :o) Continue reading “The Perfect Bowl of Oatmeal (Part 2).”
When I was in high school, I got the chance to visit Australia. Our group stayed at a camp for part of the time, with a hearty camp breakfast in the morning (Vegemite on toast, anyone?). They made the most wonderful, creamy oatmeal, and I ate multiple bowls of it every day. The texture was just so perfect – definitely a far cry from the instant oatmeal packets I made for myself at home! I assumed that the secret was, you know, actually cooking the rolled oats on the stove, but when I tried it, mine always turned out more…gluey than creamy. Continue reading “The Perfect Bowl of Oatmeal {GIVEAWAY!}”
I love to bake, but lack the self-control to have homemade sweets around on a regular basis. (Oh, I’m in the kitchen, it must be time for a snack to hack off another piece of this cake/snitch another cookie/try not to let the kids see that I’m chewing something….) That’s why I’m so into zucchini snack cake and breakfast cookies, since they’re healthier (lower in sugar and more filling, at least!) but still fun to bake. When I mentioned my granola-bar-making woes, one of my readers pointed me to these chocolate chip granola bars from Weelicious (thank you, Lindsay, from the bottom of my heart!), and I’ve been making them ever since! Continue reading “Chocolate Chip Granola Bars.”
I’ve been on a quest to make the perfect homemade granola bar for years. I’ve tried lots of recipes and I’ve also tried to create my own recipe from scratch. Baked, unbaked, crunchy, chewy…they’ve certainly all been edible, and some have been good enough to make a second time, but I haven’t found The One. I want a granola bar that doesn’t rely on a lot of added sugar to taste good, that can handle some variation of ingredients, and stays together, for the love. It’s a bummer to cut into your pan of granola “bars” and watch them turn into crumbs before your eyes (or fall to pieces after knocking around in a lunch bag). Continue reading “Breakfast Cookies.”
I’ve been in a breakfast rut for aboouuut 10 years. It involves peanut butter on an English muffin and I’m happy here. I mean, I can be tempted out of it pretty easily with a pancake or something in that genre, but I can live without cereal or grits or oatmeal. But then Jay made steel cut oats a few weeks ago and changed my breakfast life. Continue reading “Jay’s Steel Cut Oats (the perfect make-ahead breakfast).”