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Something good, every day.
Granola
I’ve been making granola for years now. We love it. Typically with yogurt (plain dairy-free coconut is the best), but sometimes with cashew milk. As a late-nite snack I’ll throw in a handful of chocolate chips.
Time to share the recipe! it’s super easy to make.
Ingredients
- 4 cups rolled oats (not “quick oats”)
- 1 ½ cups raw nuts/seeds (pecans, pepitas & sunflower seeds are our usual, but you can use whatever you like)
- 1 tsp fine-grain sea salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ⅓ cup melted coconut oil (or sub olive oil)
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup coconut
- ⅔ cup dried fruit, chopped (typically cranberries)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, nuts and/or seeds, salt and cinnamon. Stir to blend.
- Combine oil, maple syrup and vanilla. Pour over oat mixture and stir to coat.
- Pour the granola into parchment lined baking sheet and use a spatula to spread it in an even layer.
- Bake until golden, 30-40 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. In the last 5 minutes add the coconut to toast.
- Remove from oven and stir in dried fruit. Let the granola cool completely, undisturbed, before moving it to a container.
- Store the granola in an airtight container.
Full credit goes to Cookie & Kate’s Healthy Granola Recipe
February Television
We watch a lot of tv. Too much? Perhaps.
Two shows we’ve been enjoying lately:
Picard & The World According to Jeff Goldblum.
I typically like the Star Trek shows. Even when they’re not very good, they’re still pretty good. I didn’t even watch much TNG when it was out, other than the occasional random episode, but I would probably enjoy watching Patrick Stewart in anything. My favourite thing about this show is how fallible and human J-L is.
Jeff Goldblum is also a delight. He’s so damn… himself.
Pathfinder
A war cleric, half-elf invoker, gnome paladin and a human rogue walk into a bar, looking for adventure.
We found it! A one-shot dungeon crawl, hosted by a friend who has created this campaign in order to introduce people to Pathfinder (and DMing).
Pathfinder is close enough to fifth edition D&D that we were able to figure it out fairly easily, and our DM was able to see what it would be like to run these characters through an adventure.
The hardest part was playing a character I didn’t create myself, but it ended up being super fun.
Kitchen Icicle
Drip by drip it forms, drip by drip it disappears.
Community Food Smart
I was lucky enough to get in on the launch of the Tantramar Community Food Smart Program this month.
It’s a monthly fresh food bulk purchasing group that orders, organizes and distributes produce to members at a reduced rate.
The produce in the photo above only cost me $15, plus a $10 annual fee. Fantastic!
Little Love Poems
I/we don’t really do Valentine’s Day. There’s not much point when you celebrate your love every day. Yes, I know. Puke.
Five or six years ago, in the early days of love, a friend put out a request for “little love poems.” He thought he might publish a collection.
So I challenged myself. I submitted ten tiny poems.
Nothing came of the project, and I stumbled across them this week. How fortuitous!
Here are three of my favourites:
Every time I toss my keys down to you
from my balcony
I feel like your Juliet.
Except we know how to live.
Remember when I learned morse code so I could tap secrets on your skin?
•• / •-•• --- •••-• • / -•-- --- --•
You are my summer storm.
When darkness falls you
come on hot and heavy
thrill me
drench me
leave me shiny
then rumble off into the distance.
I am made new by you.
Februarys Gone By
This is the second February we have been in our lovely little rental house in Sackville, NB. But prior to this, the shortest of months has provided plenty of excitement!
6 years ago – February 2014
I met my love in February 2014, while working on Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit at Walterdale Theatre. Directed by my (now) dear friend CK, it was a collective of amazing people working together on something magical. Ruth Condomine was one of my all time favourite roles.
CK knew Bee through work, and hounded him to take on Sound Direction for the play. If he didn’t, who knows if we ever would have crossed paths? Sadly, I have no photos of the two of us that year as we were “just friends.”
5 years ago – February 2015
I skipped the trip south to visit my folks for Christmas 2014 in order to spend the holidays with Bee and his family in Alberta. So to make up for it, I travelled to Texas in February for a week. It was a nice break from the long winter, but I missed my love.
4 years ago – February 2016
Our 5 month European adventure was coming to an end, and we spent most of February in Athens, Greece. Bee’s brother came to stay with us for a week and it was an awesome end to an amazing adventure.
3 years ago – February 2017
Spending the previous winter in the mediterranean left us less than enthused to face the frigid temperatures in Alberta, so we splurged on a break and headed to Havana, Cuba with our friend LB.
2 years ago – February 2018
We were staying at my folks’ place while they went south. Our original plan for moving out here was not working out, we had no jobs or prospects, and we were basically holed up together just trying to figure out what to do next! We always figure it out ❤️
