Updated granola recipe

Life is busy and part of the busy is feeding everyone.  Breakfast is always interesting.  As it gets warmer, yogurt and cold cereal become more the norm.  The cold cereal has become the granola I make.  Yogurt is always eaten with the granola I make.  Yogurt goes bad in the refrigerator if I do not make granola.

I have actually stopped looking at the recipe but I also realized that I am not following the original recipe anymore.  It is still a backpacking recipe but I have tweaked it.  Both quick oats and old fashioned oats.  The butter and brown sugar ratio has been tweaked.  So....  I decided I better write it down because my family will try to make it when I am not around and I will tell them to come here.  And it better be updated!

newest granola

Note:  This is a tweak from my original granola recipe, which was a backpacking recipe.  I like simple but if you wish to add dried fruit and nuts, please do.

2 cups quick oats

2 cups old fashioned oats

1/2 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon or to taste

1 teaspoon ginger or to taste

In a skillet, melt the butter over a medium heat.  Add the brown sugar.  Mix well and let cook until the brown sugar until it has dissolved into the butter.  Mix in the cinnamon and ginger.

Turn off the heat, add the quick oats and old fashioned oats.  Mix until the oats are well coated with the brown sugar mixture.  Turn out onto a parchment or silpat covered baking sheet.  Let cool.  Store in jars.

The only way this has lasted more then a few days in my house is if it gets hidden.

Enjoy!