BAKING WAS A SUCCESS

I baked granola and 2 ingredient cookies today. I thought the cookies tasted like crap but my family loved them to bits my dad ate 3 out of the 9 cookies I made. I shall be very generous and share the recipes here both have no sugar added and are reasonably healthy. Sadly, I still have no photo taking device that is convenient for me to blog instantaneously so I'm going to spam this post with the edited recipes. I think today was a pretty good baking day for me and all the preparation and baking took only about 1.5 hours in total for both dishes. I shall try to cook a meal for my family/brave friends. I shall think of a menu (some thing along the lines of mushroom, pasta, spinach, pizza, sushi, onions, chicken). Hope you try some of these recipes out, there's really no reason you should not....THEY ARE SO EASY.

Basic Granola Formula

- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup almonds

-1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 2 tablespoons olive oil + lots of drizzling when happy/when you think its too dry
- 2/3 cup honey (because maple syrup is too expensive) and A WHOLE LOT OF DRIZZLING. i think i used about almost half the bottle to be honest.....convincing myself that honey is healthier than sugar anyway.
- random sprinkling of cinnamon 
- random sprinkling of golden flaxseeds
-1 table spoon of vanilla extract

- 5 packets of  those mini sunmaid raisin packets

Lightly grease a rimmed baking sheet, about 30 by 38 cm (12 by 15 inches). (I didn't do that and so my granola got stuck on the sheet and i just ate the paper cause I was upset and happy)

Place all the ingredients (except the raisins) in a medium mixing bowl, and stir vigorously until evenly combined.

Spread on the prepared baking sheet and place in the middle of the oven.

Set the oven on 150°C (300°F) and bake the granola, for 15 minutes

Stir, taste, add honey (OPTIONAL and healthier if you skip)

10 minutes

Stir, taste, add olive oil (OPTIONAL)

10 minutes 

Stir, taste, add honey (OPTIONAL)

Put in raisins for 2 minutes - 10 minutes depending on how burnt you want them to be

Take out to cool they will become crispy as they cool and will stick together if you put as much honey as i did in my fear that my family members would reject them. 

REVIEW: i think its healthy. It's basically honey, oats, olive oil, nuts and raisins. No sugar added. Pretty good in my books shall make more with other ingredients. Love you all try not to burn your granola. When it is brown it is more or less done.

adapted from HERE confession : it's a really good recipe just go there and skip mine if you bothered to read till here. TROLLZ

2 ingredient cookies with mix ins

Ingredients:

4 ripe goreng pisang bananas
1 cup of quick oats

Then add in what sounds yummy to you! (or nothing!) We love:

-4 squares of 85% dark chocolate
-sprinkling of cinnamon
-1/3 cup raisins and random mixed nuts (sunflower, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, almonds cashews) 

 We cook them at 350 degrees for 15 minutes on a GREASED cookie sheet. Don’t forget the greased part…. I did and it was not pretty. As i suspected the cookies don't expand so you can pretty much put as many as you can fit into the sheet without them joining.

source:HERE (go there they have picture by picture tutorial.)