I don’t know why I always get the incredible urge to bake when its 90 billion degrees outside…I guess thats why I have a/c. My power company must just love people like me!

Oh for Yum!

Breakfast Granola

Makes 14 servings (not sure what classifies a serving…a 14th of this i guess. )

6 cups old fashioned oatmeal, uncooked

1 cup honey

1 stick unsalted butter or margarine, melted (I believe in butter, so i used it!)

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup almonds or pine nuts (slivered almonds all the way)

1/2 cup dried apricots, sliced (I don’t dig these…so i used dried cranberries)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spread oatmeal evenly in roasting pan or large jelly roll pan. In medium mixing bowl, stir together honey, butter, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and vanilla. Pour over oatmeal and stir until evenly coated (i used my hands…stir? really?) Bake until evenly browned, about 20 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes to prevent clumping. Remove from oven, stir in almonds or pine nuts and dried fruit and continue to stir every 5 minutes until cool.

Notes: Okay…I wanted my almonds toasted…so i put them in the last time I “stirred”, with 5 minutes to go. They probably could have been in a little longer. I also like my granola clumpy…so next time I think I’ll stir less. Also…you’re gonna wanna bake this on parchment paper. You don’t have to, but I’d rather just throw that away than scrub a pan.

Store tightly covered in the refrigerator for up to one month.

Now, it says “breakfast Granola”. Somehow I don’t see mine making it to the bowl in the morning…I don’t see it making it to morning at all…