Saturday, May 2, 2009

Sinners and Hippies




Sooo its been awhile since I last posted anything. I am trying to get my shit together and figure out where I want to take this thing. There was an issue of my camera being injured with quinoa causing me to delay my posting, but I have since then obtained another hand me down cam. My decision is to throw caution to the wind and say lets fuck this duck. On with it then...

In case you missed our Dinner for Sinners gathering on the resurrection of the messiah, here is the awesome flyer I made for it. I had some time on my hands, what can I say? There is a back side too. It rips. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pics until around dessert time! Everyone brought lovely dishes such as roasted fingerlings, herbed sweet potatoes, artichoke salad, apple pie, sweet cashew cream, a coconut/chard vietnamese dish and more. Here is my carrot cake...

Spring is finally fucking here. This seemed like the longest winter ever, right? I was so stoked to receive these daffodils during our sin dinn. I never have cut flowers in my house. I'm not against it or anything, its just so special occassiony. This may sound cheesy but, it totally brightened my day to come in from the dreary rainy days to these fragrant beauties.





The warmer weather gets me excited for the soon to come farmers markets, planting my farm, and camping! Hells yeah. I am finally weaning off my morning hot cereal routine for some heavy duty homemade granola action. This hippie shit is good and sooo much cheaper than bulkin it at whole foods. Super easy to make and to sub in other ingredients.

GRANOLA

Preheat oven to 350F
  • 5 C Old fashioned rolled oats
  • 1 C Raw pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
  • 3/4 C Oat bran
  • 3/4 C Flax meal
  • 1/3 C Brown sugar, packed
  • 1 Tbs Cinnamon
  • 2/3 C Brown rice syrup
  • 1 Tbs Canola oil
  • 1 C Apple juice
  • 1 C Dried persimmons, chopped into bit size pieces
  • 2/3 C Raisins
You can use any nut or dried fruit combo you like. Just make sure the nuts have not been toasted already and if they are large you may want to coarsely chop them. Same for the fruit, if its a fig or mango strip chop em up a bit. Also, if you don't have flax meal use yr coffee grinder to turn shit into shinola. If you don't have a coffee grinder then yr SOL.

In a large bowl combine the oats, nuts, oat bran, flax meal, brown sugar and cinnamon. Be sure to break up the brown sugar so that there are no big chunks floatin around in there. In a separate bowl whisk together the brown rice syrup, oil, and apple juice. Add to the dry and mix until well coated. Spread mixture on two parchment lined baking sheets. Bake for approx. 30 minutes. Toss every 10 min or so. Keep an eye on the edges so nothing gets burned! Let granola cool completely on baking sheets. Mix in the dried fruit and store in an airtight container.