A day in my retired life - mini reset and a Christmas recipe

I need a bit of a mini reset after all holiday cheer I have been indulging in and to offset all the excess of more festive days to come. Spend the day with me in my small retired life, eating healthy food and making some sour cherry granola for Christmas giving. The granola recipe is easy and budget friendly and makes a great gift to give to those who have everything else.

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Granola recipe (set oven to 300F)

1 cup old fashioned oats
1.5 to 2 cups nuts (use your choice of nuts, use raw nuts. I used almonds, pecans, pumpkin seeds, cashews and pistachios)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 to 1/4 tsp salt
1/4 brown sugar (I used coconut sugar)
1/4 maple syrup or honey
3 tablespoons coconut oil or butter or margarine
1 tsp vanilla
about 1/2 to 3/4 cup dried sour cherries or whatever dried fruit you like
1/2 to 3/4 cups toasted large flake coconut (totally optional)

Mix the oats, nuts, cinnamon and salt in a bowl
Combine sugar, syrup and coconut oil and melt in microwave until oil is liquid, add the vanilla
Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and flatten.

Total bake time is 25 minutes. Bake at 300F for a total of 20 minutes (stir after 10 min, then stir after 10 minutes again) turn the oven off and bake for another 5 minutes. You want the mixture to be fairly dry and the nuts to be toasted so adjust the time as necessary for your oven. Be careful not to burn the granola.

Toast the coconut in a dry frying pan on top of your stove over medium heat. You want it lightly brown. Do not burn it. Let everything cool completely and add the coconut and sour cherries to the granola and mix.

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