Granola

It turned out pretty well, I think. I might add more crystallized ginger today, since I didn't get much in the bowl I ate this morning. And I think I'll buy some coconut and dried apricots for the next batch. But otherwise, not bad.

Here's the recipe. You can tell me how you do it differently, and whether there's something you think would make it better.

Ingredients:
4 cups of old-fashioned oats
1 cup chopped nuts (I used pecans)
1/2 teaspoon salt

1 stick of butter (1/2 a cup)

1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup syrup (maple syrup, or something else)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup of dried fruit

Directions:
1. Heat your oven to 300 F
2. Take a cookie sheet and either line it with parchment or grease it or lay down a silpat (the last is what I did).
3. Mix the first bunch of stuff (oats, nuts, salt) in a big bowl.
4. Heat the butter until it's melted, then add the other wet ingredients (honey, syrup, vanilla)
5. Pour that sweet, buttery, gooey goodness over the oat mixture and mix it up so that everything is wet-ish.
6. Spread on the cookie sheet.
7. Bake 20-30 minutes or until golden brown (mine took 28 minutes).
8. Cool completely (!)
9. Add the fruit, minced up in small pieces if necessary (I used minced candied ginger, dried cranberries, and minced dried mango). You can use a kitchen scissors to cut up the fruit, FYI.

Eat with a small person who drinks his milk out of the cereal bowl and collects unwanted bits of cereal in his high chair so you can clean them up later. Good times.