By Gosh, it's the GRANOLA RECIPE

And now, the real thing you've all been waiting for: COOPERRIIS GRANOLA!

Ingredients and Quantities:

1 cup Toasted Coconut (spread on sheet pan, toast in 300 degree oven for 4 minutes)

7 1/2 cups Oats, Uncooked

2 cups Almonds

1/2 cup Wheat Germ

1/2 cup Sunflower Seed

1/2 cup Flax Seeds or Toasted Sesame Seed

1 teaspoon Cinnamon, ground

1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg, ground

1/2 cup + 2 1/2 Tblsp Canola Oil

1 cup Honey

1 Tblsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Dried Cranberries

1/2 cup Dried Raisins

1/2 cup Apricots, dried, diced

Directions:

1) Toast coconut and set aside.
2) Mix Oats through vanilla ingredients together.
3) Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes, mixing once or twice during baking.
4) Let cool.
5) Add dried cranberries, raising, apricots and toasted coconut.
6) Mix well.
7) Eat it up.

Well, besides finally getting that recipe out to you, I went to visit Trevor and Brooke in Tennesse. It was wonderful meeting Trevor's family and seeing his roots. No wonder he's such a nice kid. And it sounds like their new settlement in Batesville shall be very dynamic. Thanks to them, I got to go to a blue plum festival and see the WAYBACKS play. Although, I didn't see any blue plums.