blissful domesticity- herbs and a granola recipe
My Friday’s flowers bouquet- lime mint, peppermint, rosemary, and feverfew. I laugh every time my little ladies mistake feverfew flowers for chamomile, the bitter expressions are so funny! If you ever get a chance to nibble a feverfew flower, nibble with caution!
Fauna and I did a little thrifting today and found these lovely vintage sheets (my newest addiction), which we put in the washer as soon as we got home, then hung them on the line to dry.
I will be sewing them into drawstring bags for my Etsy shop this weekend.
Granola Recipe
I made this granola yesterday (adapted from a Martha Stewart recipe I found in an old magazine) and we have been snacking on it all day. This recipe makes a lot of granola- about 12 cups.
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup water
4 1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup bran
1/4 cup flax seeds
1 cup raw almonds
1 cup pecans
2/3 cup dried cranberries
2/3 cup golden raisins
2/3 cup dried apricots sliced into small pieces
or use your favorite dried fruit and nuts
-Preheat oven to 250.
-Melt butter in saucepan over medium low heat, add brown sugar and stir until sugar melts. Take pan off the heat.
-Stir in honey, vanilla, water, and salt. Stir until well blended.
-Add remaining ingredients in a large bowl, stir until well blended then drizzle the liquid mixture over the top of the dry ingredient mixture while stirring and coating everything evenly.
-Place granola on two rimmed baking sheets, spread evenly.
-Bake, stirring occasionally until golden brown (about 1 1/2 hours). Cool on baking sheets, put in an airtight container and it will keep for 3 weeks.
Mix with yogurt, sprinkle on fruit, or eat it plain as a yummy, healthy snack.
Have a great weekend!
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Vintage sheets and granola…. doesn’t really get any better than that
those linens are heavenly ~
OMG! I grew up with those vintage sheets! The ones with the strawberries were on my parent’s bed for years. Too funny. I guess that means I am really getting old and I am not even 40 yet!
love those sheets. I have yet to fins a thrift shop/antiques shop that sells great vintage linens. I will keep looking, you can be sure!
I love your granola recipe and thanks for adding how to make it more clumpy, that’s how my clan like is too. I love your sheets! I have an interesting collectin of vintage sheets and pillow cases just waiting for the motivation to create something with them, so thanks for that! Right now I am on a wind chime kick, we’ll see!
Love the sheets…what time period is considered “Vintage” now-a-days? 1981?
The item has to be 20 years or older to be considered vintage. So yes, the 80′s are vintage, which is so weird to me considering I was in jr. high and high school that decade.
Oh I’ve been looking for a good granola recipe – this looks absolutely delicious! Thankyou so much! You’ve truly made my mouth water with this one.
We haven’t made granola in a while – I’ll check this one out!!
Wait!!! Green and Yellow rick rack would be better
Gasp!!!! You can’t cut up that cute sheet into bags! You have to make a little dress or skirt out of it. Think how cute it would be with red rick rack
When you say preheat oven to 250 are you talking Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Fahrenheit
lovely bouquet!!! the ranola loks so delicius, i adapted once in bars, to save in paper and eat as a snack! have a wonderful weekend.
Beautiful bouquet!
We love granola of all sorts. Yours sounds good!
And the sheets…been sewing with linens for a long time. I love how much yardage one gets for the price. My friend’s sister had those same strawberry sheets on her bed when we were kids! (Vintage now? Ack! LOL)
Nicola
Love the vintage sheets! They are hard to find here, but I am always on the lookout.
Love those sheets!!! I have been on the hunt for vintage sheets too….
i’ll definitely try the granola recipe! Thanks
Blissful indeed! Ahh. And great sheets! …what are you going to do with them?
I prefer my granola clumpy, but can’t find a recipe that wants to do that. :/
You can make it clumpy. I like it that way too, just don’t tear it up while you are “stirring” it while cooking.
Really?! Excellent! I know what I’ll be doing after our next trip to the grocery store! Thanks for the recipe (and insight!). (:
The recipe for granola in the book “Baked” (if you happen to have it or if your library has it) makes a clumpy granola.
Thanks! I’ll look into it! (:
On my stars, I have those same sheets, the ones with the starberries! My mother gave them to me! She gave some rose sheets to my daughter, she called them the bed of roses sheets. How did you know that I planned to make some granola this weekend! I got the oats today, but I will leave out the bran and other gluten-based ingredients because m hubby has Celiac’s Disease. Thanks for this great post!
I have that second fabric with the strawberries and will be turning it into a picnic quilt along with some other vintage coordinating sheets….. Can’t wait. Love your happy blog. Mica/The Child’s Paper
Oh, oh, oh–the strawberry sheet would make a super-cute skirt! I still haven’t tried my pillowcase-into-skirts plan…I can’t seem to find any cute pillowcases anywhere.
I think I will try to make it into a skirt now Jessica.