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This morning was fairly uneventful in my house… no different than any other Saturday morning, other than the hubby taking Emilie with him to get an oil change done on our Torrent.  I was unusually hungry this morning, and so I decided to have some yogurt and granola.. but hurray, someone finished the lat batch of granola and didn’t tell me.  I love love love when my idiot dh husband finishes something in the house and doesn’t give me a heads up to make or buy some more…. 

 Anyways, I had the darn white stuff with just some honey. I DID get the kids to help me make more granola though. So easy… and very tasty.  I make about 3 cups worth at a time… I’ve found that it’s a good amount for the 5 of us for a week. Usually. I guess dh used it as cereal. Oh well..

 So I get the kids to wash their hands and started them off with just mixing the plain oatmeal with a spoon while I got the margarine and honey ready… next thing I know, I hear giggles, and look next to me at the kids. There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong, they seem to just be giggling. More giggling. I look back, and there’s oats all over the counter.  They ahd gone a little nuts with the mixing and the stuff flew around, they thought it was funny. Arg.  Clean up on aisle 3!

Finally we get our act together, and I pour the honey and margarine into the oats.. and they mix mix mix. Zach asked if they could use their hands… bah..why not. So they dug in…was too cute to see them both fighting over who could get the squishiest handful.  I told Zach that Naomie won, because she had some in her hair when all was said and done. Heh heh..

So we put the stuff in a pan… they wanted our round one, not our rectangle one.

 We put the pan in the oven…

…and yummy!

They couldn’t wait to have some. I told them it had to cool down. They couldn’t wait. A little while later Zach grabbed a spatula when I wasn’t looking… and tried to get some out of the pan… poor little guy burnt his fingers trying to hold the pan still.  Duh.. I told him it was HOT.  Lesson learned… don’t touch the friggin pan dude!  Good thing it had had a chance to cool down a bit… his fingers aren’t even red. *phew*

So dh gets back with Emilie, 2 horus after they left… I asked him what the heck took so long… apparently they went to check on a new dishwasher.  We left our old one at the other place… and since we’re re-doing the kitchen cabinets this spring, we figured we’d just do them by hand until we can figure out what cabinets we’re getting, how they will be arranged, and where the dishwasher will fit…I guess he got tired of my nagging and decided to go out and buy a portable one. You know, those nasty ones with the hose that you have to wheel out to your sink? Ugh. It’s the thought that counts… it’s the thought that counts… thank goodness he didn’t find one in stainless. Hee!

He starts telling me about his few hours with Emilie.. the brat went and spilled juice all over herself while they were waiting for the car to have the oil change done. Turns out, he didn’t have it done after all, he waited 45 minutes and then told them he was leaving, it was taking too long..they gave him a coupon for a free oil change next time. I love freebies…and I take advantage of them as much as I possibly can.

Speaking of freebies… last night we ordered Chinese take out for dinner… and you know those chicken balls? The ones with hardly any chicken in them, they’re just a ball of thick batter? (gross!) Well..I don’t really like the sauce they usually come with… and we always ask for them sine the kids love em… and we ask for the sauce on the side. No problem. So we get our food, pay etc… and we start to unwrap it all… and hurray, ijits strike again, there’s sauce on the chicken balls. I call up the restaurant and complain, saying we specifically requested for the sauce to be on the side, not on the balls since nobody actually likes the sauce except for dh… and they apologize. Since I paid for it, and I’m all about getting what I pay for, I ask if they can bring us another container, in exchange. The girl at the other end hesitated for about a minute, and said that yes, it was a mistake on their part, she sees the request on my order.. they can bring us another one, but it would be about 40 minutes.  I tell her that that’s unreasonable, and that if they can’t deliver plain chicken balls sooner than that, could they at least refund us the value of the chicken balls, since they’re just going to go in the garbage anyways. (well no, we still ate them.. just grumped about it.. lol) She goes and talks to her boss… and comes back, saying that she can take off 10% of our bill and credit us the difference.  Yay! So, next time we order from there… we get 6$ off. *rolls eyes*

This afternoon I have a band practice. I can’t wait.. I bought myself a new electric silent violin.. a Fender. It’s sooo awesome.. I can’t wait!! I can’t WAIT to try it out on a decent amp as opposed to the crappy little one I have! Woot!!

What a difference with my old one…

I love it. Dh isn’t a fan of how much I paid for it, but I work too, and I have my own $$… I pay my share of the bills and I’m not broke. He can bite me. I do the budget around here…I handle the finances… we’ve both got our own $ as well as a combined account… and if HE doesn’t have loads of money in his account, not my problem… I can blow mine on a violin if I want to.

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Honey granola

-3 cups dry oatmeal

-1/2 cup margarine

-1/2 cup honey

-1/4 tsp salt

1) Measure out 3 cups of oats.. dump them in a big bowl.

2) Nuke the margarine in the microwave. I guess you could use a saucepan…but why bother…I have glass measuring cups.. so I just put margarine to half a cup…nuke that… then dump honey in the melted amrgarine until it hits the 1 cup mark… nuke it again so it’s all liquidy..

3) add salt to oats, and dump the margarine / honey into the oatmeal… mix it all up until it’s pretty much all “wet”

4) dump the mix onto a cookie sheet.. or other pan.. or really, anything flat that you can shove in the oven Spread it out as much as you can… if you clump it all together, the sides will get crunchy but the middle will not.

5) Bake it at 375 for about 10 mintues. It will get toasty brown. 

6) Let it cool down in the pan.. it will get crispy there. After it’s cooled, break it up, put it in an airtight canister. you can add about 1/2 a cup of nuts, and/or 1/2 cup dried fruit, too. Yum! You can eat it like you would eat cereal, or just add it to regular cereal, sprinkle it on top of yogurt.. whatever really. You can even use it to make granola bars. I do sometimes, but more during the summer, since the bars I make have peanut butter in them, and I don’t want to confuse these with others and send them to school accidentally. ^-^