{"id":5822,"date":"2008-02-14T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/5822\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:03:09","slug":"made-my-own-granola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5822","title":{"rendered":"Made my own granola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made my own granola last night.  Why?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cheaper &#8211; all the ingredients are bought in bulk<\/li>\n<li>creates less waste (no boxes)<\/li>\n<li>you can tune your recipe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The end results were yummy.  The current issues with my version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the almonds, at $5, accounted for half the price all the ingredients.  Part of this was because I bought crushed almonds, which may have been more expensive.  Next time I will either just get a hammer or get peanuts instead, which are more cost-effective.<\/li>\n<li>I misread the recipe and added the dried fruit before putting the mix in the oven.  It needs to be added after the toasting; now all the fruit tastes slightly caramelized<\/li>\n<li>although there is less waste created, I still got plastic bags for the bulk purchase.  Although Berkeley Bowl lets you reuse plastic bags, so that might be okay<\/li>\n<li>I used the basic &#8220;default&#8221; recipe this time.  I need to add my own stuff for the next batch<\/li>\n<li>I may have been too zealous about breaking up clusters; there are none in my batch.  Sometimes clusters are a good thing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something to watch is, when hot, the granola still feels &#8220;wet&#8221; and thus it is tricky to figure out if it&#8217;s done yet.  As it cools, the granola gets crunchier.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe I used is off of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfood.com\/2007\/08\/31\/a-granola-recipe-from-my-moms-hippie-youth\/\">Slashfood<\/a> and is apparently from Marisa McClellan&#8217;s mom&#8217;s friend.  But there are a ton of them online to get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made my own granola last night. Why? cheaper &#8211; all the ingredients are bought in bulk creates less waste (no boxes) you can tune your recipe The end results were yummy. The current issues with my version: the almonds, at $5, accounted for half the price all the ingredients. Part of this was because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}