Yummy Food! Brown Sugar Granola!

I have been trying to cook more from scratch, what better way to leave out all the additives and preservatives in so much of the food that is in the grocery store. This is one of my family's favorite. Brown Sugar Granola....so good over yogurt :) I found this recipe on the web, wish I could remember the site to give credit, so I am sorry to who every it belongs to, and am thankful you shared it.

Brown Sugar Granola

1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup dried fruit (optional) (I skip the fruit, hubby adds it in for his servings )
1/2 cup nuts or seeds (optional) (I like to add a little flax seed)

In a large 4 quart saucepan melt the butter and water together. Stir it well and let it simmer for a few minutes (2 or 3 minutes should be enough). Add the salt, oatmeal and cinnamon to the big pot. Remove the pot from the stove and stir up the granola. You want to coat the oats with the brown sugar and margarine, so keep stirring until everything is moistened. Put the onto a cookie sheet, the kind with sides. Bake it at 375° for 10 minutes. It should be a nice golden brown. Remove the pan from the oven and allow the granolagranola to cool right there in the pan. When it is cool, break it up into small pieces and transfer it to a container with lid. Add the nuts and/or dried fruit when you put it into the canister.


I wish I took a picture, maybe tomorrow when we eat it for breakfast.

RESOLUTIONS.......

So can I keep them..... yet again I have many, and I hate calling them New Year's Resolutions, my husband says just set some goals and accomplish them, stop with the "I Resolve", my mom on the other hand waits until February to set her goals/ resolution, she figures by this time all the people who fall short of the January 1st goals do so about this time so she thinks she is already ahead of the crowd. Dunno?

Well its almost February & I guess I will call them goals...
* I really would like to start blogging more....I will do me good in may ways :)
* Get faster, I have been a runner for oh, more than half my life, but I lost a lot of speed when I had my kids, I would really like to get that back
* Run a marathon, I have my eyes set on one, but have a few for back up if the timing doesn't work
* Expand my garden - I have plans to add more fruit plants, I also want to freeze & can more this year
*do more sewing- after starting my full time job this past fall it has been hard, but I really have some projects I want to finish (well and a few I want to start - you can follow my sewing on Rae Designs Blog)

Check back often....Oh & tomorrow is the Blood Drive at work...to donate or not is not a question...if you can you do...someone's life depends on it