{"id":909,"date":"2011-10-19T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2011-10-19T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:04:56","slug":"earthy-edibles-some-coffee-in-that-granola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2011\/10\/19\/earthy-edibles-some-coffee-in-that-granola\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthy Edibles<\/i>: Some coffee in that granola?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making granola at home terrified me for a long time. For some reason I thought it would take forever to make, or that it wouldn\u2019t be as good as store-bought.<\/p>\n

I also had no idea what a good granola recipe looked like; I couldn\u2019t just glance at any recipe online and judge whether it would work out or not.<\/p>\n

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Espresso Granola (photo by Keira Zikmanis).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This all changed a couple of years ago when I tried the peanut butter and chips granola recipe from Have Cake Will Travel<\/em> (havecakewilltravel.com). A beautiful thing happens when you follow food blogs: after you\u2019ve tried enough of someone\u2019s recipes, and have had positive results, you come to trust them. So much so that you can try things that may have scared you in the past.<\/p>\n

So I took the plunge, and I\u2019ve been making my own granola ever since.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve experimented with a ton of different flavours and combinations of ingredients, and this recipe is by far my favourite. Possibly because it\u2019s granola and caffeinated, possibly just because it\u2019s delicious.<\/p>\n

So try it out. Go ahead and change up the nuts or dried fruit, if you like, or add some chunks of your favourite chocolate once it has cooled for an amazing dessert (or breakfast).<\/p>\n

Espresso Granola<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/p>\n

Dry:<\/p>\n

3 cups rolled oats<\/p>\n

3 pinches sea salt<\/p>\n

4 tbsp finely ground espresso<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup pecans<\/p>\n

2\/3 cup dried cranberries<\/p>\n

Wet:<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup honey (or a mix of honey and brown rice syrup)<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup light or neutral tasting olive oil<\/p>\n

2 tsp vanilla extract<\/p>\n

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Directions:<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 300\u02c7 F.<\/p>\n

Mix together the dry ingredients (except the cranberries) in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix thoroughly. Now spread the mixture out onto a parchment-lined, rimmed baking sheet. Bake for approximately 40 minutes, stirring and checking every 10 minutes. When the granola has been baking for 30 minutes, check and stir every five minutes after that. The granola will crisp up once it\u2019s cooled and out of the oven. You can tell it\u2019s done by the amazing smell, and normally by its golden colour, but with this recipe the espresso prevents you from seeing that. Once cool, stir in the dried cranberries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making granola at home terrified me for a long time. For some reason I thought it would take forever to make, or that it wouldn\u2019t be as good as store-bought. I also had no idea what a good granola recipe looked like; I couldn\u2019t just glance at any recipe online and judge whether it would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-october192011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}