Granola!

Well Mark has been at school for the past week and a half and my new employment still hasn't received my background check from the state of Nebraska.  I have had to find ways to keep myself occupied, which means doing the only thing I feel somewhat confident in, cooking.  One of the sweetest neighbor girls ever said she was going to make granola, so I found a recipe that looked good to me and we went shopping.  We went to Whole Foods, someday when I'm not up to my eyes in student debt this will be the place I will go.  It's expensive to eat healthy.  We got the stuff and I went to cooking.  My first batch, well I'll just admit I burnt it a little.  The thing that salvaged it was that I had a bunch of nuts in this particular granola recipe and thus it just tastes like roasted nuts (some a little more roasted that others).  My second batch was much better.  I found out something pretty interesting today.  I needed to buy honey to put in the granola, and I bought local honey.  Did you know that buying local honey will help with your allergens.  Because the bees use local plants to pollinate, thus it helps build some sort of immunity.  Neat fact of the day.  So far the allergies have been good here.  The recipe calls for sesame seeds, while I was making it I could not find the sesame seeds.  I looked at my list and saw that I didn't check it off but I thought I remembered getting a bag of them.  I didn't want to ask my neighbor if she had them because if she didn't I would feel sheepish, and also I was a little too shy to ask.  Ends up she did have them and being the angel she is, she brought them over just in time for me to them in the second batch.  All in all it has been a good day, just wish I could start working, guess I'll make the best out of the time I have. 

Recipe for granola (not a real recipe just used what I liked the most, and mixed it all until in tasted good)
Rolled Oats
Pecans
Almonds
Walnuts
(I crushed all of the nuts)
 Sunflower seeds
Sesame seeds
Pumpkin seeds
(mixed all of these together)

Maple Syrup
Honey
Little Brown Sugar
Sprinkle of Cinnamon

Cooked at 325, for about 20-25 min.  I took it out about half way through and mixed it all up.  Put it on a cookie sheet.  It is pretty good.