Tam's Granola (in really bad lighting)
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Well, as much as I like our regular granola, I thought it would be good to have a couple "fun" granolas to make on occasion. So, I got the ingredients for two new recipes.
One of the recipes we tried was from someone at church. It's called fruity, nutty granola and tastes earthy. I mean earthy in the "wholesome" way, not the "tastes like dirt" way.
Fruity, nutty granola
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The other recipe we tried was from allrecipes. I love that site. I really do. Anyway, this one was called easy cranberry granola. It's sweet and a little clumpy.
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Easy cranberry granola
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You may recall our snickerdoodle experiment from several months ago. Well, we decided the same scientific approach needed to be taken in determining which of the new granola recipes we liked best. Each family member did a blind taste test of both granolas, one bite plain and one in milk. We pretended like the texture of the granolas didn't make it blazingly obvious which one we were sampling.
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We also watched as some silliness between me and one of the little Ws resulted in that kid choking (the "no air is coming in" variety, not the coughing a lot variety) and Tim rescuing the child by pounding his back, which helped the lodged food to come back up. No Heimlich maneuver needed and the choking child, while still crying from pain and a little fear, insisted on finishing their turn before letting the next person go. Never a dull moment at the W house.
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Anyway, reviews were made, scores were tallied, and the final result was ... no result at all. The two recipes were so different that it really wasn't a fair comparison. The kids loved the sweetness of the easy cranberry one, which wasn't surprising, and would probably make it their first choice. However, they all liked the fruity, nutty one too. One liked it more than the other two, but no one hated it. Tim and I thought they were both good, but just totally different from each other.
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I've got all three recipes posted on FOR THE LOVE OF GRUB and their names linked in this post, so go give them a try!
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What's your favorite granola recipe? I'm open to trying some more new recipes!
3 comments:
We love alton brown's (food network) granola around here.
I do love your taste test reviews!
I love granola. I'm going to check out those recipes. Lately I've been buying a low fat one because I just cannot get mine to have that few WW points. Nobody else eats it but me....crazy people LOL.
I have a few on my blog and like them all.
Here's one a friend left on Facebook.
Melanie's Granola
Basic Recipe:
...3/4 cup honey
1 T. natural extract or flavoring
1 cup wheat germ
7 cups rolled oats (or any combination of rolled grains)
Optional items:
2 cups unsweetened coconut
1 cup dried fruit
1 cup nuts
2 cups puffed millet or puffed rice
Preheat oven to 300˚. In a large dutch oven, heat the honey and extract until thin. Turn off the heat and add wheat germ, then coconut, nuts, then rolled grains, and finally puffed cereals. Toast in a big, deep baking or roasting pan. After 15 minutes, begin to stir every 5 or 10 minutes until it is toasted the way you like it. When you remove it from the oven, stir in dried fruit. Allow to cool completely before storing.
Some combinations we like:
Coconut, dried cranberries, almonds, and vanilla extract
Dried apples, almonds, spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg), vanilla
Dried peaches, pecans, butter pecan flavoringSee More
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