Almond Granola

I made some yummy cereal bars yesterday (oh, those were gone FAST). Today I was itching to make something else so I went back to the Provential Ruralite's blog to find the link to where she got the recipe from and jackpot! I found something else I could make!

I picked the very first recipe on the page: granola. I have made granola before and here is the recipe I usually follow *3rd post down* (did I say follow? I meant start-off-with-and-change-so-drastically-as-to-be-something-completely-different-in-the-end lol). Since I have used that one before with great results I do what I usually do when things are going so well- I change lol.

Here is the new recipe I decided to tweak use:

Preheat oven to 250.

Combine 2 cups whole wheat flour

6 cups rolled oats
2 cups coconut
Blend together seperately
1/2 cup water
1 cup oil
1 cup honey
2 tsp vanilla
1 TBSP salt
Add wet to dry and mix thoroughly. Spread out onto 2 greased cookie sheets and bake until golden which is about an hour. You want it to be dry and crumbly. Break it up and store into containers.

And here is what I actually did:

Combined:

2 cups whole wheat flour

6 cups oats (2 cups quick, 4 cups old fashioned)

1/2 cup wheat germ

1/4 cup flax seed meal

1/4 cup soy flour

1 cup coconut flour

about 1/2 cup sliced almonds (I crushed them up in the package before adding them)

about 1 1/2 tsp allspice (I just love allspice!)

Mixed in separate bowl:

1/2 cup water

1 cup honey

1 cup oil

1/2 -3/4 tsp almond extract

1 tsp salt

Mixed all together (eventually). Spooned about half onto a large cookie sheet and cooked it for 1 hour and 25 minutes at 250*F Every so often I would take it out and stir it or break up the big chunks.

This is the first time I have made granola that looks like granola. You know like you buy in the store. It always seemed to me to have a pretty look to it (not like the 'burnt' look mine usually gets..); it's a light golden brown color. Too bad I do not have a camera!

We (the kids and I) tasted a couple chunks of it after it was fresh out of the oven and thought it was very tasty. I think that once it is cool and with milk, it will taste even better!