Granola

The last recipes I made were sinfully, sinfully rich and delicious

This next dish that I'm going to share with you is a little bit more on the healthier side

You won't mind the children ODing on it too much. And we're going to start with that wonderful granola from Connie's

When I make this for my family, I swear I don't know who likes it the most

My birds or my family. All right, now I've got pecans and walnuts that I'm going to toss in there

I've got some wheat germ. I've got some sunflower seeds. Got some sweetened flaked coconut

I'm going to add a teaspoon of salt and about a teaspoon of cinnamon

I'm just going to toss that around again. gonna add oil to our mix And you know that I not gonna make a dish without using a little something that sinful So in goes our sweetened condensed milk

We're just gonna toss those all up. You know you can buy trail mix already made

It's pretty good, but it can't hold a candle to what this is gonna taste like

All right, now we've got that all mixed together, and you see all these other ingredients sitting over here

Well, we're not gonna put those in yet. Now we're actually gonna bake this

and this can get sticky, so we want to make sure that we line our pan with foil

and we're gonna spray it real good, just like this, because like I said

that condensed milk's gonna become very, very sticky. You're gonna be amazed at just how good a trail mix can be

And we just gonna spread this out and we gonna put it in a 300 degree oven and we gonna actually bake this for about an hour But every 15 minutes we going to go to the oven and take our spatula and just kind of rotate it

and flip it around on our pan so that it won't burn and get too dark on the bottom

So that's it. So we're just going to put that in there

But in the meantime, I've got one ready here here, because I make a lot of this at one time because it keeps so well. See how good

that looks? You can see what that condensed milk did to it. The smell is incredible. Now

at this point you can add any of your favorite fruits. I love the raisins, the golden and

the dark. So I'm going to use some of both. And I'm going to put in some dried cherries

These are very pretty in there for the color And dried apricots And I love these banana chips in there We just going to toss all that together

Look how pretty. You can store this for a long time in a Ziploc bag

I guess the last batch I made, I probably had it around three or four weeks and it was

just as good, that last bowl that I ate, as the first one

So the important thing is to just seal it up good. But how pretty is that

And it looks like a snack that you don't actually mind your children overeating on

How great is this? You can actually eat it for breakfast, eat it as a snack

My niece, Kari, especially loves this with a bowl of plain yogurt

And she stirs it into the yogurt and she just loves it that way

So it's really very versatile. You can put your some in a little Ziploc bag and take to work and munch on this instead

of that chocolate that we all love. I think it's cool enough for me to taste

It is lip smacking