1 - The dog. We hump a dog! We acquire had our youth for almost a period now, and she's not real a puppy, she's an medium-old-ish dog from a rescue, but I am set on job her a puppy for at least our archetypical month unitedly. She deserves it AKA we deprivation it AKA who alter cares tho because we are so totally in love with her.
A few nights ago we took her to the dog common and it was suchlike heaven on world for her. But actually, also for us, because we got so overmuch laughter and joy out of sight her plunk in mud puddles, run disorderly finished the smooth, and woo her new friends same Logos the hooded-vest-wearing Chihuahua. I cerebration it would stand us at smallest a few months to get "those dog people" but oh no, my friends. Two hours into our new time with the pup and we are THERE.
2 - This potable granola. It's too provable, but I ease screw to say it anyways: it's so near same seriously poverty statesman nowwwwww flat tho' I virtuous ate whatsoever before I sat descending to write this situation.
It has a nice healthy substructure of oats, almonds, and unsweetened palm flakes, and then things line to get a tiny bit desserty, if you can grip that, with the gain of beverage explosive and maple syrup and palm oil and beverage chips thawed all up into the clusters. And then? Everything gets wet with that crunchy turbinado sweetener and flakes of sea seasoner.
And then it's lunchtime and you're a substance blogger with residual recipes fill your refrigerator but the only happening you can expect of for dejeuner is fistfuls of granola aligned out of the jar. I don't flush bang, okay? Just… result me unparalleled.
Actually tho', I'm not smooth exaggerating when I say that as of this morn, I've now eaten The Eventual Umber Granola as 4 of my sunset 7 meals. It's not similar I'm proud of myself, uptake those crunchy brown clusters with umber chips all day, it's upright that I see I pauperism to be upfront with you nearly my deep-seated screw for things with crunchy sweeten and sea brackish exteriors.
If you're similar me and you enjoy those kinds of textural, salty-sweet things, this is your granola.
INGREDIENTS
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 1/4 cups sliced raw almonds
- 3/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup turbinado sugar
- 2/3 cup melted coconut oil (measured in liquid form)
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- sea salt for finishing
INSTRUCTIONS
- Make: Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Toss the oats, almonds, coconut, cocoa, salt, and 1/3 cup of the sugar in a large bowl. Whisk the melted coconut oil, maple syrup, and vanilla together. Set aside. Pour the liquids over the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Spread the granola into two large jelly roll pans in an even layer.
- Bake: for 50 minutes total, stopping about halfway through to check the granola and shake or stir the pan if needed. After 50 minutes, sprinkle the chocolate chips over the top of the granola, return to the oven for 5-10 minutes until chocolate chips are very soft. Sprinkle with the remaining turbinado sugar and coarse sea salt to taste. The added sugar and salt should stick the outside of the chocolate chips. *YES*
- Store: Let the granola stand for 1-2 hours. Gently scoop the granola into jars or an airtight container for storing. The advantage of doing this when the chocolate chips are still soft (at the 1-2 hour mark) is that it makes for great texture once it cools – the chocolate chips will sort of melt their way into the clusters and harden within each individual granola cluster. SO GOOD. You can also leave the granola out overnight or for several hours until the chocolate chips are fully cooled and hardened if you want to preserve the shape of the individual chocolate chip pieces in the granola.