Chewy Peanut Butter Granola

Making granola is easy and tastier than their premade counterparts.

The following recipe is not hard as a rock and does not contain corn syrup which is hard to avoid in virtually all food sold in the US.

In a bowl stir together:

1 1/2 cups of steel cut oats (not instant or minute)

1 1/2 cups of crispy rice cereal

4 T flax seed flour (optional)

Use some butter to grease a pan you intend to use for the finished granola.

In a saucepan set on low melt:

3 T butter

3/4 cup to 1 cup of peanut butter

1/2 cup honey

Be cautious not to scorch mixture, basically melt these ingredients.

Add the grains to peanut butter mix and stir around.

Press granola into pan add some chocolate chip pieces into the top.

Refrigerated for at least an hour before eating.

Usually keep these refrigerated but they do fine without.

Adding some nuts to the mix would be tasty as well.

Saucepan Popcorn !

Making popcorn may seem a little obvious,pretty low on difficulty level but I learned a method on the stove top that is super easy and comes out consistently awesome so I thought Id lay it out.

Preheat stove top to medium heat setting.

Get a medium sized saucepan (about 2 quarts) my preference is stainless steel pan with copper bottom add a small amount of cooking oil (peanut oil works great but any other veggie oil is good)  in pan, enough to cover the bottom.  Add about 1/2 cup of popcorn kernels to oil. Roll kernels around until covered in oil. Put a bit of salt of the corn. Cover with lid put on stove.

You don’t need to do anything further but listen to corn popping. When the popping slows significantly remove from heat. Add salt or spices that you prefer and Enjoy!