Recipe - Home made museli/granola

I haven't shared a recipe for awhile and I thought that I would share this one for museli/granola as I am contsnatly making it for myself and my husband.  I have also put it into the lovely French preserving jars and given it for a gift tied with a nice ribbon - it's great for people that are hard to buy for.

I also think that it is much better value to make your own museli than to buy it as any of the ones that I like are about $10 for a small box and my husband doesn't like sultanas and most of them have sultanas.

 

This is what it looks like after it has been toasted and turned over a few times.  

The ingredients that I use change all of the times depending on what we have, what I need to use up, what is on special at the shop and who I am making it for.  I have not specified amounts because you just need to use your eye and the amounts change depending on what baking tray you use etc.

Ingredients

Rolled Oats

Bran

Coconut flakes or dessicated coconut

LSA mix

Raw Almonds

Pepitas

Sunflower Seeds

Banana Chips (I think these are vile but they are easy enough to pick out...)

Treacle

Maple Syrup

Brown Rice Syrup

Almond oil (this can be any vegetable oil that doesn't have a string taste)

 

Method

1. Preheat the oven to about 180.  Line a baking tray with foil (so much easier that soaking and scrubbing - I have tested).

2.  Add all dry ingredients to tray.

3.  Pour over wet ingredients.  You only need a tiny bit of oil to help everything move around in the tray easily and also the treacle is VERY strong - go steady.

4.  Mix everything well and bake for 10 minutes.  I have to set a timer or I forget and it burns quite quickly because of the complex sugars.

5.  Mix again and put back for another 10 - 15 minutes (I also rotate my tray and change shelves - I have a traditional oven).

6.  When toasty remove and mix.  Leave to cool for 5 minutes than decant into a lovely jar.

Menu - last week

I have been a bit tardy in posting anything lately as we had a death in the family - my Great Grandmother - she was 99 and still amazing.

Here is the menu I have been working from last week and for the week to come:
Here are some nice pictures I took of my usual Saturday breakfast. It is what I loosely have based on a feature that Jill Dupliex wrote for a magazine which she called a Lebanese breakfast. It is usually flat bread (Mountain Bread) but today it was Brioche with feta, tomato, two very softly boiled eggs and dukkah.

A few little white lies

Ok, So I said that I was going to blog once a week - one week a menu and some food and the other week an outfit post focusing on vintage.

Well, while I have remembered and remembered to feel guilty about not posting - I have been pretty good about the food side of things, though still not actually doing anything. I am still menu planning and am getting better at remembering to take pictures of the food that I am making. Perhaps I am unconsciously setting out to sabotage myself by making it all too hard. y menu at this stage is stuck on the fridge and is handwritten. If I did it on the computer - all I would have to do is cut and paste it into my blog along with the pictures of food from the last week. I also think that not everyone is interested in the fact that I am having brown rice for breakfast again!

So, new idea: menu planning on the computer and post straight away. This means I may actually be able to better link to all of the cookbooks I use and give a bit of a review every now and then and even use the fancy new pinboard (Pinterst) thing everyone else seems to be using.
I have also had some other ideas for the blog such as reviewing cookbooks as I seem to be buying more and more all the time (book depository in the UK has free shipping) and I have been refining a few of my own recipes.

I would also like to include more content on vintage items that I own or are sewing etc. as I think everyone who reads the blog is probably mainly interested in that.

I have updated my Blog lists on the left and added in quite a few more with vintage leanings. Here is a few pictures of what I am hoping to blog about soon:

Menu planning

Cookbook Review -Donna Hay

Menu Favorites


Breakfasts that I eat all the time (as in Breakfast, lunch and dinner)