Living in a Cereal World

(And I thought I had a picture of it, but apparently not.) Anyway, I was out of town for a few days (and brought back a cold!) so I'm just now getting caught up on life stuff, including blogging this Whole Wheat Sunflower Honey Oatmeal Bread I made two weekends ago. Let me tell you, making bread is definitely a weekend project. It's an all day project. Maybe it doesn't take as long for bread machine-based recipes but this isn't one of those. Second thing, I omitted the sunflower seeds. I don't think anybody in my family likes them at all , let alone in bread. Thirdly, I didn't have white whole wheat flour so I mixed regular whole wheat flour with all purpose. Did it make the bread more dense, as the recipe suggests? I can't say for sure, since I can't compare it to the original recipe bread, but it was definitely filling. I may have eaten the end- and next-to-end pieces the first morning. So. Much. Bread. 😵  So yeah...stick to one piece at time. On...

How is it every year I manage to miss National Cereal Day? Not only that, but I also don't eat cereal that day. I did, however, have some of this granola. This is another one of the flavors Target introduced  last Fall . In brief, there's no false advertising here. First chew: hey, this is sweet. Second chew (same mouthful): ...and salty. I suppose you would call this a member of the "kettle corn" family of flavors. With almonds. It's a light sweetness, though. It's not like crushing up a box of Cracker Jack and sprinkling it over your yogurt (I wouldn't hate it if you did, though...😉). And because I believe in equal granola time, here's the most recent granola I made:  Gingerbread Granola . There's actually no sugar in this granola, which makes all the spices that much more intense. And I'm still eating it. I thawed some out this morning and sprinkled it on my  gingerbread pancakes . Yeah, I think I've reached gingerbread capacity for t...

Anybody else hunkered down, waiting for this latest snow dump? Hopefully it's the last one. 👎 And now something more 👍: remember the  coffee cake   I made back in January? I needed only a little bit of Grape Nuts for the streusel, which left me with nearly an entire box of Grape Nuts. They may be small but those boxes contain a lot of those little wheat nuggets. What to do? Obviously I went to the Post website and looked up all of their Grape Nuts recipes.   Here's what I made: Mini-Frittatas. It says "Kale and Mozzarella" but I used spinach and cheddar because that's what I had. The cereal makes them more filling than your typical mini-frittata. Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies. This is the only recipe I made where you don't notice the Grape-Nuts at all. Also I may have had too much sweet potato. It would have been nice if the recipe had a more specific measurement. Banana Crunch Muffins. You can guess where the "crunch" comes in. I...