{"id":3050,"date":"2013-04-02T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2013-04-05T10:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:08:47","slug":"a-slightly-tropical-and-exotic-granola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"A slightly tropical granola"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know I love me some sweets, and if I were stranded on an island and could have only one type of food, it would be breakfast treats. I love them all: muffins, scones, pancakes, french toast, pain au chocolat…I could go on forever listing these.<\/p>\n

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I’ve really been trying to cut back on the sugar, though largely unsuccessfully, and have been trying to at least modify my sugar intake in the mornings. I’ve long known the benefits of yogurt, but the sugary variety is the only breakfast sweet I’m not completely crazy about and plain yogurt doesn’t float my boat. It might be because yogurt isn’t part of the carb family.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I remembered these granola bars<\/a> I made a few years ago, and thought I might like them crumbled on top of yogurt. Good thing I was planning on crumbling them anyway because they didn’t stick together at all.<\/p>\n

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Bars or no, it’s fabulous. I added dried mangoes and coconut, and you can practically feel the caribbean breeze and hear the steel drums as you savor this.\u00a0I love that this recipe is super flexible and if you add enough of the “sticky” stuff as Deb calls it, the granola will adhere to each other better than my batch. I reduced the honey and other sweeteners, which accounts for its crumbliness.<\/p>\n

The result? I’ll be consuming plain yogurt by the gallon from here on out. How convenient that I made a ton of granola. And on that hypothetical island where only breakfast-y foods would be allowed, I could live on this alone.<\/p>\n

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Deb’s instructions<\/a> are very thorough as usual, and I ended up with this combo:<\/p>\n

dates
\ndried mangoes
\ncurrants
\nthompson \u00a0raisins
\nsunflower seeds
\nslivered almonds
\ncoconut (sweetened)<\/p>\n

I threw together the above to make roughly three cups, added the mixture to oat flour, thick oats, salt and cinammon, then mixed up the whole lot with a smidgen of peanut butter, honey, agave, melted butter. I didn’t use any granulated sugar. Because of all the fruit I used, the granola is plenty sweet and yummilicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know I love me some sweets, and if I were stranded on an island and could have only one type of food, it would be breakfast treats. I love them all: muffins, scones, pancakes, french toast, pain au chocolat…I could go on forever listing these. I’ve really been trying to cut back on the sugar, though largely unsuccessfully, and have been trying to at least modify my sugar intake in the mornings. I’ve long known the benefits of yogurt, but the sugary variety is the only breakfast sweet I’m not completely crazy about and plain yogurt doesn’t float my boat. It might be because yogurt isn’t part of the carb family. Yesterday I remembered these granola bars I made a few years ago, and thought I might like them crumbled on top of yogurt. Good thing I was planning on crumbling them anyway because they didn’t stick together at all. Bars or no, it’s fabulous. I added dried mangoes and coconut, and you can practically feel the caribbean breeze and hear the steel drums as you savor this.\u00a0I love that this recipe is super flexible and if you add enough of the “sticky” stuff as Deb calls it, the granola will adhere to each other better than my batch. I reduced the honey and other sweeteners, which accounts for its crumbliness. The result? I’ll be consuming plain yogurt by the gallon from here on out. How convenient that I made a ton of granola. And on that hypothetical island where only breakfast-y foods would be allowed, I could live on this alone. Deb’s instructions are very thorough as usual, and I ended up with this combo: dates dried mangoes currants thompson \u00a0raisins sunflower seeds slivered almonds coconut (sweetened) I threw together the above to make roughly three cups, added the mixture to oat flour, thick oats, salt and cinammon, then mixed up the whole lot with a smidgen of peanut butter, honey, agave, melted butter. I didn’t use any granulated sugar. Because of all the fruit I used, the granola is plenty sweet and yummilicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cooking","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}