I went to my sister’s house for dinner and started to pick at the homemade granola in her cupboard.  I picked and picked and picked….  My children and husband picked and picked. Collectively we shamed ourselves with the gluttony of ten families.  We would have stuffed more in our pockets as we were leaving but we had pretty much polished it off.  We left with a promise of the recipe being ON OUR COMPUTER by the time we arrived home.  Mmmm.   It’s making me salivate even now.  It is sooooo good.

I mentioned our embarrassing gluttony to my “blog sister”.  She admitted she’d sent a batch of the granola to work with her husband because she couldn’t keep her hands out of it.  (Her husband’s co-workers asked for the recipe).  It’s chuck full of pecans, pumpkin, sesame and sunflower seeds. Craisins, raisins, blueberries, coconut and cinnamon.  It makes your house smell like Christmas while it cooks.

You want it now don’t you?  Two words: MAKE IT.  Three words:  MAKE IT, HURRY.   Let us know, we’ll be right over.

 

TRINA’S GRANOLA

6 Cups Oats, rolled (raw)

2 Cups Coconut

2/3 Cup Sunflower Seeds

1/2 Cup Sesame Seeds

1/2 Cup Pumpkin Seeds

1 Stick Butter

1 Cup Brown Sugar, packed

1 Cup Honey

1/2 Tsp Salt

2 Tsp Vanilla

1 Cup Raisins

1 Cup Crasins

1 Cup Dried Blueberries

1 Cup Pecans

Sprinkle of Cinnamon

 

1. Preheat oven to 300 Degrees
2. Mix Oats, Coconut, Sunflower Seeds, Sesame Seeds and Pumpkin seeds in a mixing bowl
3. Bake Oats, Coconut, Sunflower Seeds, Sesame Seeds and Pumpkin Seeds on 300 degrees for 30 minutes on cookie sheet
4. Melt Butter and add Brown Sugar, Honey, Salt, and Vanilla in a separate mixing bowl and set aside
5. Chop Pecans and add them to Raisins, Craisins, Dried Blueberries in a separate mixing bowl and set aside
6. Once the Oats mixture has finished cooking for 30 minutes; remove from oven and increase oven temperature to 350 degrees
7. Stir in the butter mixture and Raisins mixture with the baked Oats mixture in large mixing bowl
8. Cook the granola on 350 for 10 minutes
9. Once you have cooked the granola for an additional 10 minutes; change oven setting to broil
10. Broil Granola on high for 2-3 minutes. Checking consistently to ensure that the granola is just getting brown not burning
11. Remove Granola from oven.  Stir mixture and sprinkle generous portions of cinnamon on top
12. Allow to cool completely before placing granola in storage containers

Helpful hint:  If you want your granola more Crunchy broil for 3-4 minutes, remove from oven stir and place back in oven and broil for another 3-4 minutes