Going to work after a holiday week is always hard. Combine that with the first really cold day this winter and a grey, rainy sky… and you have a tough Monday.
The icing on the cake is that I have to be on the first flight out to Detroit tomorrow. Rock City.
I’m lucky to have a great job… but rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
Enough with the complaining!
Quick, name 5 things you love!!
- My new grey sweater
- The fact that my pants are still loose after T-giving
- Peanut Butter-Sunflower Seed Granola (recipe below!)
- The Avett Brothers: Live Volume 3 album
- The Honey dog
This day also calls for a “funny.” Auto-correct-style.
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Now that that’s out of the way. I made some rockstar granola, thank you The Best of Clean Eating cookbook.
Take note: granola was meant for peanut butter. How have I never made it with PB before?!
It was especially tasty on top of Greek yogurt this morning. With a sweet potato-blueberry pancake crumbled on it for good measure.
As if being delicious isn’t enough, this Peanut Butter-Sunflower Seed Granola is lower in fat and sugar and higher in protein than most grocery store varieties.
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Peanut Butter-Sunflower Seed Granola
(from The Best of Clean Eating)
- 3/4 C Sunflower seeds (raw, unsalted)
- 1 1/2 C Oatmeal (uncooked)
- 1/4 C Flaxseed (roughly ground)
- 1/2 C Dried cranberries
- 1/2 C slivered almonds
- 1/2 C Unsweetened coconut
- 3 T Crunchy peanut butter
- 2 T Cacao nibs
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/3 C Agave syrup
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Preheat oven to 300F. Combine ingredients in a large bowl and stir until blended. Make fruitless effort not to eat raw mixture.
Press mixture onto parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 40 minutes. Let cool for 10 mins. Store in air-tight container.
Serves 12.
Nutrition info:
Calories: 124, Total fat: 13g, Sat. Fat: 3g, Carbs: 25.5g, Fiber: 9g, Protein 7.5g, Sugars: 12.5g
HAHAH thats so funny! Granola looks yummy!!
This looks yummy. I make a batch of granola every couple of weeks and will try this out next time.
Thanks! Let me know how you like it!
We are in love with this granola! I’ll never buy it from the store again. Mark and Julia eat it by the handful and I like it with greek yogurt. Can’t wait to try some more of your other recipes.
Hahaha that auto correct! And mmmm peanut butter granola! Well this batch should be finished in oh… a day?! So the next one will be def be involving peanut butter. I’m completely out of it at the moment! 🙁 How on earth i’m still alive I don’t know!