gra-gra-granola!

hurray! granola!

I randomly realized this morning that i have not made granola in a really really really long time. Infact, i cannot even remember the last time i made this delicious cereal/snack/awesomest food ever. So i gave Jackson the option of Granola bars or just granola for eating with yogurt and milk. He went with granola.
so here follows is the recipe i used...after finding one online and modifying it. (it was huge!)
i do apologize now to my American readers, as the original recipe was in metric, and being Canadian, i left it that way.

I also tried to use as much organic stuff as i could, but since i was using what i had, it was only 1/4 organic (ok fine, only the oats were organic)

454gr of old fashioned rolled oats (no quickies!) (1 lb)
50g ground walnuts (the recipe called for ground almonds, i switched it up for fun.)
50g pecan pieces (again it called for almonds...boooring!)
50g almond slices (i gave them a chance.)
50g flax seeds (it said to use ground, i had whole, i tried to grind them in my grinder, they don't really grind that well...too bad, they went in anyways!)
then i added pumpkin pie spice, because, really is there ANYTHING in this universe better than pumpkin pie spices?

mix all the dry ingredients together
in a separate bowl mix approx 1/3 cup honey and 1/2cup canola oil (i didn't have canola, went with sunflower) you can warm these so they mix slightly better, then pour into the dry ingredients and mix mix mix!

stored in an airtight container, it should keep for at least a couple weeks.

i line my cookie sheets with parchment paper, so i don't grease them...lay the granola out on baking sheets and put in the oven at 250F for 50mins, pulling them out to stir every 15-20min. After it is cooled mix in a fruit of your choice (dried cherries, raisins, cranberries) I went with cranberries.

 The doubled recipe said it would make 31 half cup servings, but we tend to eat more like 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup servings which is why i halved the recipe. So far the house smells like lovely lovely cinnamon and toasting nuts.