Finally

I'm finally getting back to blogging after a two week break due to some nasty rodents invading my house. Luckily, we caught all three in one day and that was it. I'm still paranoid and we have traps set all over (don't worry, children can't get to them unless they have superpowers). My sister was here for a week, so I slacked on blogging then, and I have also cut my time on the internet way down since leaving NM. My excuse there was I have nothing to do since I couldn't bring anything with me, so I searched the net. Now I have a lot to do and want to spend time doing that. I don't want to be the mom that has her children say "My mom is ALWAYS on the internet." No thank you. I'm not paying for Carter to be in preschool this year, for obvious reasons. We have no income for another 7 or 8 months. So, we do "school" sometime during the day so he won't be behind the other lucky children that get to go. :)

Now for a recipe! I made this last night and have been waiting all summer to do so. What is it? Granola. And the best darn granola you'll ever have. Well, that's in my opinion, but you can sure find out. I'll post the recipe at the end of this post.

The dry ingredients.

The wet ingredients.

Mixing the two together.

Laying it all out on the pan to bake.

Obviously you can leave out the nuts, but man, they make it SO much better. I found honey roasted sunflower seeds and they were great in the granola. I cut my almonds so they were more chunky this time. I really liked the result. This is oh so easy, and oh so delicious.

Granola Cereal

10 c. Rolled oats
1 c. Wheat germ
2 c. Sunflower seeds
3 c. Nuts (almonds)

1 ½ c. Brown sugar (packed)
1 ½ c. Water
1 ½ c. Vegetable oil
1 ½ c. Honey
½ c. Molasses
1 ½ tsp. Salt
2 tsp. Cinnamon
3 tsp. Vanilla

Add the first 4 ingredients into a bowl and stir. Then combine all of the rest of the ingredients into a pan and cook on the stove until the sugar has dissolved—do not boil. Pour syrup over dry ingredients while stirring. Bake at 300 for 20-30 minutes stirring every 10 minutes. When done, cool pan and continue to stir. Store in a cool tight place.

**I used two and a half pans to bake mine in. I used my big cookie sheets for two of the pans and then I have a half size cookie sheet that I used for the half pan.**