A new direction -- spiced up granola

Beginnings are always interesting.  They are fresh, new exhilarating, sometimes terrifying, but nonetheless they are part of life.  I am beginning a new chapter in my life and I thought it would be nice to get some consistency back.  Thus I am going to resuscitate this blog from its dying last legs and give it some new life.

In the spirit of beginnings, I'm going to take this blog in a slightly new direction.  I'm going to attempt to start trying some of the many recipes from the many blogs I follow.

Here it goes...

Granola.  There is something so satisfying about pouring some in a bowl with a splash of milk in the morning.  Heck any time of day.  I decided to finally try making some from scratch instead of just buying it from various sources.



It should stay fresh if kept in an airtight container for about 1.5 - 2 weeks.

I was inspired by Cookie + Kate's Gingerbread Granola so I put a little twist on it and it turned out quite wonderfully.

The only changes I made were adding:
- 1/3 cup flax seeds (about a 1/3 cup worth because I had them lying around)
- substituting an equal amount of honey for the molasses
- omitting the ginger (sadly didn't have any around)
- and substituting dried apricots for the dried cranberries
- substituting 1 T of ground cardamom for the ground ginger (I fell in love with cardamom after spending a summer in Sweden)

I've got to say I'm quite impressed by my first shot at this, and hope that this is what all of my future endeavors will be like instead of this being just beginners luck.