marshmallow granola goodbye

Some of you who used to read my debut food blog, culinaryme, may recognize that this blog is a play on that one. Similar design, layout, and even the name. I wanted to build on what I'd done previously, and bring more people along the way. Hence, culinarywe.

I mention this because Jonah and I built upon a recipe that I had already covered once before, for granola bars. Except this time we randomized the ingredients based on what we had in our pantries. (Like we've been doing all along, haha.)

Instead of butter, it was peanut butter (and then some butter because the mixture was too dry). Instead of sugar, it was honey and sweetened condensed milk. Instead of dried apricots, it was dried cranberries and dried dates (chopped up). But I think the best addition was some marshmallows - just because the sticky stretchy marshmallow bits in the granola "bars" (really chunks) ended up being the most fun to eat.



While you can certainly eat it when it's fresh out of the oven, we cooled it in the fridge overnight, which is what made it even possible to cut bar/chunks out of them. Otherwise it would've just crumpled into granola mix. Which is fine too, for eating as a cereal or as a topping.

Oh, I forgot! The reason why we made this was due to my upcoming Haiti trip, and us predicting that there might be time where I would have little to eat. Our prediction was right - one night I just had granola and cinnamon tea for dinner. Which reminds me, cinnamon tea is a thing, and it's amazing. Just steep cinnamon sticks in hot water, and sweeten with sugar or honey.