Quick And Easy Granola And Blueberry Muffins For Breakfast
We can cook complicated, fancy food, but quick and easy food is a staple on our homestead. Heating the kitchen baking means that we try to combine baked items in one session. Here we show how we staged baking homemade organic granola and blueberry muffins to minimize heating the house in the dead of the Arizona summer. Quick And Easy Granola And Blueberry Muffins For Breakfast
Granola:
3 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1/4 cup flax seed
1/4 flax seed
mix dry ingredients until evenly distributed
combine 1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/2 tsp salt
pour into dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Spread onto 2 sheet pans covered with parchment paper. Bake at 325 for 17-20 minutes. Stir at the half way point. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Break into smaller pieces if needed. Store in an airtight container.
Blueberry Muffins:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
add dry ingredients to a maxing bowl. Mix egg, oil, and enough milk to make one cup of liquid ingredients in a measuring cup. Add to dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
Fold 1 cup of blueberries to into the batter.
Fill muffin cups. Top with crumble mix:
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup
1/4 cup cold butter
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon (more if you like cinnamon!)
Mix with a fork until the consistency resembles pebbles in sugar/cinnamon mixture. Top each muffin with crumble mix with a spoon.
Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until done (cake tester will come out free of uncooked batter). Let cool 10 minutes and remove toa rack to complete cooling, or eat while still warm!
We decided last year to try growing greens and other vegetables in our greenhouse over the winter. We are happy to report that we are successful growing them in our greenhouse! Now we're on the verge of growing a new crop of sweet potatoes.
Irene and Henry have been living off grid full time since 2005 on a 43 acre off grid homestead in the high desert of Northern Arizona. Situated at 5280′ elevation, we enjoy four seasons of beautiful scenery and weather about 60 miles south of the Grand Canyon.
We grow most of our green beans, peppers, yellow beans, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, squash, garlic, and herbs. Specialty crops like asparagus, sun chokes, and lavender are supplemented by foraged foods including wild ground cherries, prickly pear, and other native plants.
Electricity is made using solar panels and one 400W wind generator. We power our buildings in two groups: Irene's studio by itself, and house infrastructure: house, greenhouse, and workshops.
Thanks for joining us on our continuing journey.
Take care.
Henry & Irene
BrainStorm Acres
PO Box 105
Ash Fork, AZ 86320
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