Tonight Stacy and I decided to make our own granola bars, and they turned out pretty darn good. I had been wanting to try making them for a while now, and finally got around to it. It’s a great snack to make because it’s relatively easy to make, pretty healthy, you can throw in whatever you want, and really cheap. We made a 9″ x 13″ tray of granola bars for around $5 in ingredients (not to mention they were mostly organic). And the best part, is they’re delicious. We’re talking:
- Rolled Oats
- Flour
- Brown Sugar
- Raisins
- Chocolate Chips
- Walnuts
- Almonds
- Honey
- Sunflower Seeds
- Vanilla
- Salt, canola oil, etc.
I mean, it sounds great, doesn’t it? And now I have snacks for the next couple weeks– cool. I can’t wait to make it again, there’s already a few other things I want to try (namely, peanut butter, mmmm).
Does anybody else have a tasty they like to make? Or perhaps the missing ingredient to my nearly-perfect granola bars? Let’s hear it in the comments.
This Memorial Day weekend marked the culmination of months of planning and bad chicken jokes for my parents: Saturday was their First (Annual?) Chicken Cook-off. I wasn’t able to make it, but from what I can tell it was pretty fun. My mom was so excited, she even wrote a guest blog post about it. Keep reading below for the details, as well as some pretty funny pictures.
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Last night I went grocery shopping and ended up buying seeds for a few different cooking herbs. It’s something that I’ve been talking about doing for a while, and I finally have the opportunity to do it. I picked up some chives, oregano, green onion, and sweet basil, as well as a parsley plant that’s already potted. Since we haven’t quite felt the affects of spring yet, I plan on planting them in pots by a window inside to start. Once they start to grow and the weather gets nicer, they’ll move to our balcony outside.
This is really my first “gardening” experience on my own, as minor as it might be. The seed packets have some basic instructions on them that I think will get me through. But, what other suggestions do people have? How will I know when they are ready for “harvesting”, and how much can I cut off without killing the plant? Are there any other herbs that are nice for growing in the kitchen?
Tonight Stacy and I decided to make our own granola bars, and they turned out pretty darn good. I had been wanting to try making them for a while now, and finally got around to it. It’s a great snack to make because it’s relatively easy to make, pretty healthy, you can throw in whatever you want, and really cheap. We made a 9″ x 13″ tray of granola bars for around $5 in ingredients (not to mention they were mostly organic). And the best part, is they’re delicious. We’re talking:
