Our family loves granola and to me it is a comfort food. When the snow flies and it is cold outside then I think about how good granola would taste.
My Best Granola
10 cups oatmeal ( quick oats)
10 cups Honey Puffs cereal
1 cup whole wheat flour
Mix all ingredients together in a big bowl. Then mix the following in another bowl.
4 sticks butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups oil
1 cup honey
4 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. almond extract (optional)
Melt butter and then stir in the rest of ingredients. When mixed pour over the oatmeal mixture and stir well. Spread on 4 cookie sheets. Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes and then stir. Bake another 15-25 minutes until lightly browned.
This is how it will look before it is baked.
This is how it will look after it is baked.
After the granola is cooled, put it in an air tight container. The Tupperware super cereal keeper works great for this. Let me know if you need a container like this and I will be happy to order one for you.
I don’t know how long this will keep because my breakfast eaters will have this large batch gone in less than a week!
Now that I shared what my comfort food is, what is yours?
Looks delicious and yet so simple!!
Yes, I love simple delicious food!
I wish my comfort food was as healthy as yours but I love pasta and i just discovered a way to make healthier homemade pasta. Spinach and Spelt pasta. 4 eggs, 1.5 tsp healthy oil, 2 cubes of chopped frozen spinach, thawed and blended with eggs in blender, 1/2 tsp salt and 50/50 spelt flour and unbleached flour to make stiff dough. A kitchen aid with a dough hook makes the work of making a firm pasta dough easy. I don’t have the pasta attachment but I know it works well too.
I have pictures of my “green ” dough and drying pasta but not sure I can share them on your blog…
That sounds good. Maybe you will have to make them for me someday.