recycled recipe: easy amazing granola

My guess is that if you never visited my other blog before I created this one, then this recipe might not seem so recycled after all! But it's totally being recycled today...here...now, because this granola needs a reappearance in general, and an appearance on here! It's too good to stay out of the limelight for as long as it has!

Easy Amazing Granola

by Char

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 20 - 25 mins

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Ingredients (~4 cups)

Dry:

• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
• 1/4 cup sesame seeds
• 1/4 cup pumpkin [pepita] seeds
• 1/2 cup almonds
• 1/4 cup walnuts

Wet:

• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup coconut oil (I used just under 1/4 because I’m not a fan of using oils to bake/cook)

Add-in’s after bake time:

• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1.5 tbsp hemp seeds

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400F.

2. Combine all your dry ingredients in a large bowl.

3. Place coconut oil in a small bowl, microwave to liquify, then add maple syrup and mix.

4. Add wet to dry ingredients and combine.

5. Place mixture on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

6. Bake for 20-25 mins. Stirring mixture once, halfway through.

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 So easy and delicious that you’ll forget you were the one who made it.

Look at the transformation:

I usually enjoy granola with almond milk, but it's also good on its own or in yogurt (coconut milk yogurt to be exact)!

Or, you could also add some…

Crispy Apple Slices

by Char

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 40 - 45 mins

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Ingredients (~1 cup)

• One apple (I used organic fuji)
• 1/8 cup agave nectar
• sprinkles of cinnamon

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400F.

2. De-core and thinly slice apple.

3. In a small bowl mix apple slices with agave nectar.

4. Place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

5. Sprinkle slices with cinnamon (according to your liking).

6. Bake for 40-45 mins. Make sure you check on them frequently – change from looking undercooked to brown very quickly (mine were more on the brown/overcooked side).

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The end result:

The apple will come out nice and crispy. The cool part about them was while they were still hot, they would feel like they weren’t crispy, but once you put them in your mouth, they would immediately crispify (new word?). Crumble these bad boys up and add them to your granola.

Does granola ever get old? Or is it just me. Either way, eat this granola. Or make your own variation. I really don't think you can screw up granola...having said that, don't hold me accountable if you screw up granola.

Have a great Wednesday - I will be attended my last classes of the semester today!

quick quinoa socca

What's a life lesson that you probably use everyday with or without realizing it? To make do with what you have.

No tape to hang the picture? Use gum.
No bowl for your cereal? Use a mug.
No scissors to cut the tag off your new shirt? Use your teeth.
No toothbrush? Use your finger.

Ok, just don't tell my mom about the last two.

This is where socca comes in. Since I had used up the rest of the rice from my previous lunch, I knew I wouldn't have any to use for dinner. But, I knew with the dish I was making, I would definitely need something to soak up the sauciness of it. Rice is normally my companion, but life lesson told me that I needed to make do with what I had, and that wasn't rice.

What do I have? Why couldn't I have just decided to have cereal for dinner instead...in a mug.

From my internal dialogue, it went from rice to bread to flatbread to socca. Only problem was I didn't have chickpea flour, either (aka socca's main ingredient). Life lesson almost told me to just suck it up, scrap sauce's soak-me-up partner and eat the dish as a stew, until I remembered something.

What about quinoa flour? I know I have some of that I-bought-it-because-it-sounded-cool-but-now-I-don't-know-what-to-do-with-it stuff. It could easily replace chickpea flour...right?

Lets just say it worked...like teeth through a price tag!

Quinoa Socca

by Char

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 5 mins

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Ingredients (10 -15 (depending on size))

• 1 cup + 2 tbsp quinoa flour
• 1 cup water
• 1.5 tbsp canola oil
• 1/2 tbsp cumin

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and whisk until smooth consistency.

In a large frying pan over medium-high heat, add some more oil and pour the batter into pan. Watch closely as it doesn't take long for one side to firm up. Keep flipping until desired texture and done-ness (I liked some a little crispy!).

Sprinkle with sea salt when socca is done.

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Ready in 5 minutes flat and delicious. That's what life lessons are all about.

And this, my friends, is how you make do while working out at home when you have none of the equipment (ie: equalizers, large box/steps) required to do the workout:

I call this one TV stand step-up.

Chair and mop bar pull-ups.

Equalizing abs without the equalizer.

I suppose it's better than using your finger to brush your teeth. ;)

Side note: this marks day 5 of working out in a row while off school!!!


QUESTION: What are some of the ways you "make do" with what you have??