I have never made my own granola bars before. I was always intimidated. But I decided to give them a try, and I will never look back. My neighbor just had a baby, and my blogging friends said that new moms love snacks. Especially if they are breast feeding because they are hungry all day, and it is nice to just grab something. I decided to make her something somewhat healthy, tasty and not too difficult for me to make.
Fall is an exciting time for so many reasons! One of my favorite though is that some of my favorite cooking ingredients come back! You could probably guess one, as it’s the flavor that takes the nation by storm every September: pumpkin. My other favorite is apple. But there are so many other fall flavors, too! So we decided to round up some of our favorite fall recipes.
Pumpkin Simple Syrup // Shiner Bock Chili
Homemade Pumpkin Applesauce // Spicy Tomato Soup
Pumpkin Marscapone Ravioli // Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins // Acorn Squash Souflee
Sweet Potato Bisque // Bites as Sweet as Pumpkin Pie
Oatmeal Apple Spice Cake // Sweet Citrus Baked Acorn Squash
What are your go to fall flavors?
I absolutely love hosting get togethers. I’m not sure at what age I started enjoying being the host, but it’s certainly engrained in me by now. I love everything from setting the menu, to creating the invites (even if it’s just a Facebook invite), to decorating. I get that balled up nervous energy about an hour before but once guests start arriving, I’m in my happy place.
I absolutely love granola! It’s one of my favorite breakfast-snack hybrids.
It’s crunchy, sweet, and delicious.
However, it’s one of those sneaky little devils that is presumed to be really healthy but it’s typically packed with calories, sugar, and fat.
Most store-bought granola has the same nutritional value as a cookie… I don’t know about you, but for the same nutritional value, I’d much rather eat a cookie than granola.
The best way to remedy that problem is to make your own granola, and fortunately, it’s surprisingly easy.
