weekly curiosities no.2

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from the porch

gift - a bouquet of wildflowers from my friend H

surprise - an email from a friend that might help me in my business-related ventures. more details forthcoming, i promise.

oddity - yesterday kind of fell apart. in that strange traffic-wrongreservations-roadclosed-rushing kind of way.

outing - definitely the investor-party-- i ate three german soft pretzels with beercheese. so.good. but perhaps an error in judgement.

day - today {as always}. it's hard not to enjoy saturdays when it's the sabbath and the premise of the day is REST.


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i had some fantastic granola this past week from Living Good Granola-- and have been immediately catapulted into a granola kick. and while it is certainly worthwhile to support our local vendors, i don't have enough money in my pocketbook to buy it all the time. so i set out to make my own. this is a working recipe, but here is what i have come up with so far:

mmmmm.

homemade granola

+ 4 cups steel cut oats {or regular oats if you prefer- not the quick cooking ones!}
+ 2 cups sliced almonds
+ 2 cups pumpkin seeds
+ 2 cups sesame seeds
+ 1/4 cup brown sugar
+ 1/2 cup honey
+ 1 tbsp coconut oil {melted}

make sure one oven rack is closer to the top of the oven, and one is nearer to the bottom. preheat oven to 300F. in a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients together. stir in wet ingredients until combined. grease two large cookie sheets and spread bowl mixture evenly on them. put one pan on the top rack and one on the bottom rack. set timer for 10 minutes and bake. when 10 minutes have passed, take the pans out, stir the granola, and put each on the opposite rack. do this until the granola has baked for 35-40 minutes {or till golden brown}.

your house should smell really yummy now! take the granola out and stir around until cool {so it doesn't all stick to the pan}. this makes a TON of granola, so halving the recipe should work if you only eat it on top of yogurt every so often.

ways to eat granola? on yogurt. with milk over it like cereal. by itself! it's pretty versatile.


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food in jars - such a great resource for all of you who ever thought of canning.

how the church re-segregated schools in the south - wow! such an eyeopener. and i had no idea this article was about my hometown or by a fellow union grad until i started reading it. it was so crazy to read and recognize just what the author was talking about.


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downtown cincinnati 

the hofbrauhaus {HOF-Bro-House} in newport, kentucky. it is a german restaurant that specializes in family-style long tables, beer, and german meats! there is only one other hofbrauhaus in the world, and it's in munich, germany. why does cincinnati gett one? well, the city has a thick german heritage {the downtown area was mostly settled by germans in the city's early days}. we went to the hofbrauhaus for a investor-party honoring C's company and seven others. there were pretzels, cheese, fried pickles, bratwurst, and fried sauerkraut! so many of our friends  & family came out to support C, it was a great time!