Today I have a yummy granola recipe for my August posting in The Book Club Cook Book. As I mentioned last month this is a group where each month a new book will be chosen from The Book Club Cook Book, a cook book that has recipes from many popular recent and older novels. The goal of this club is to pick a book a month and either make the recipe from The Book Club Cook Book or another recipe inspired by the novel.
If you are interested in join see this post from Camilla, our leader. There is a giveaway at the bottom of this post for The Book Club Cook Book. For August our host is Andrea at Adventures In All Things Food. She choose Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Although I have read other Bill Bryson books I had not read this one till this month. I thought this was kind of funny since this has been on my dad's bookshelf for as long as I can remember. Growing up we did a lot of nature vacations and walked portions of the AT. Being little we never did much but I felt like I could relate to some of Bill's more traumatic experiences. Nature and I don't seem to get along all that well when we are together.
Last month a member mentioned noting all the food mentions when reading the book. I thought that was a great idea and did the same as I read A Walk in the Woods. I was not expecting so many mentions of Snickers and Hostess cakes. In fact in time I read some of the book I was suddenly craving all sorts of junk food. Not so much the noodles though. It struck me that if I ever (not that it is really a potential) undertook such an adventure I would have planned way better food options. Primarily granola. So that is what I made for you today.
Granola. Nutty Trail Granola. With cluster. Since clusters are way easier to eat when you don't have utensils.
If you are interested in participating see this information post from Adventures In All Things Food.
And be sure to check out some of the other bloggers joining in on the fun.
You can follow along with the hashtag #thebookclubcookbookCC on social media or check out the group Pinterest boad. Find out how you can join along with us below.
If you are interested in join see this post from Camilla, our leader. There is a giveaway at the bottom of this post for The Book Club Cook Book. For August our host is Andrea at Adventures In All Things Food. She choose Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Although I have read other Bill Bryson books I had not read this one till this month. I thought this was kind of funny since this has been on my dad's bookshelf for as long as I can remember. Growing up we did a lot of nature vacations and walked portions of the AT. Being little we never did much but I felt like I could relate to some of Bill's more traumatic experiences. Nature and I don't seem to get along all that well when we are together.
Last month a member mentioned noting all the food mentions when reading the book. I thought that was a great idea and did the same as I read A Walk in the Woods. I was not expecting so many mentions of Snickers and Hostess cakes. In fact in time I read some of the book I was suddenly craving all sorts of junk food. Not so much the noodles though. It struck me that if I ever (not that it is really a potential) undertook such an adventure I would have planned way better food options. Primarily granola. So that is what I made for you today.
Granola. Nutty Trail Granola. With cluster. Since clusters are way easier to eat when you don't have utensils.
Trail Granola Clusters
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Keywords: bake breakfast snack oatmeal hazelnuts pistachios
Ingredients (1 gallon bag of Granola)
- 6 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup slivered or sliced almonds
- 1 cup shelled pistachios
- 1/2 cup hazelnuts
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup maple syrup
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine the oats, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, flour, cinnamon, and salt. Stir to combine.
Whisk the oil and the honey together. Pour over the oats mixture and until the whole mixture is moistened. Pour into a large jelly roll pan in a single layer.
Bake for 20 minutes, stirring once. Bake for 10 more minutes and remove from the oven. Let it sit until it starts to cool - this helps keep the clusters.
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If you are interested in participating see this information post from Adventures In All Things Food.
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Culinary Adventures with Camilla
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*Disclosure: Andrea received a complimentary copy of The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp to use in this year-long project plus the opportunity to give a copy away. Opinions are our own. We received no further compensation for our posts.
Granola is the best! this recipe looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteYour granola is waaaaay better than their snickers and noodles LOL. I think I will check out some more of Bryson's books....I still chuckle every time I think of this one.
ReplyDeleteThis is so much better than the junk food...on the trail and off. I've been making homemade granola bars for boys' lunches this school year. Thanks for sharing your granola recipe.
ReplyDeleteYou really can't beat homemade granola! I love everything that you've included in here. It was quite hilarious how much of a junk foodie his companion was!!! I loved this book.
ReplyDeletei love granola clusters! what a great hiking snack :)
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