Gardner's Granola Bars

Last month we canned oats and I thought i would post some of my favorite oat recipes. Of coarse i am waiting for others to give me their recipes as well...

This is a recipe for granola bars but depending on how you cut of crumble them it makes wickedly good granola.


ingredients:
3 cups of quick oats
1 can (14oz) sweetened condensed milk
2 tblsp butter
1 cup flaked coconut ( i use the sweetened)

Mix all ingredients together.

Now this is where the fun part comes in...yo u pick the rest of the ingredients. I made two batches today that i am posting.

Apricot, Cranberry orange chocolate:
i added about 1/2 cup of the orange flavored dried cranberries, 1/2 cup of diced dried apricots, and 1/2 cup of milk chocolate chips.


Cranberry pineapple pistachio:
i added about 1/2 cup of dried cranberries, 1/2 cup dried diced pineapple, 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds and 1/4 cup of chopped pistachios.


Mix all ingredients together and place in a greased 13x9 dish and press flat. For granola do not press flat leave loose or chunk into little crumbles. if you get your hands wet the mixture doesn't stick as much. place in a preheated (350) oven and bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden.


Let them cool for 5 minutes then cut into squares or rectangles. Cool completely. Wrap in saran wrap to keep fresh.

The portable canner will be at my house!!!

Members of the Fruita 2nd ward who have supplies that need to be canned. I will have the canner and cans at my house for anyone that needs to use it. You need to bring your food. The cans are $0.96 each and you can pay for them on Saturday.

You can find my address and phone number on the church website...Catherine Gardner. If you know about how much stuff you have that you would like to can just email or call me to let me know, this way i can buy close to the right number of cans to have there.