In this episode of Poorboys, I’ll be showing you how to save big money by making your own Granola.

Ingredients

Instructions

- First, preheat your oven to 275 degrees F (135 C)
- Mix the oats, flax, sunflower seeds, walnuts and cinnamon in a medium mixing bowl. Once mixed, add
  the honey and stir until all of the oats and nuts are thoroughly coated with the honey.
- Spread the mixture on to a cookie sheet, patting it down until it is about 3/4 of an inch thick (2 cm).
- Place the cookie sheet with the granola mixture into the oven for 30-35 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow 15-20 minutes for the mixture to cool.
- Break up the mixture with a spatula, add to a bowl and mix in the raisins.
- Store in an airtight container.

Feel free to omit or add any type of nuts, but try to keep the oat to nut ratio somewhat similar, or the mixture may have a tough time sticking together. Additionally, this would go great with some dried cranberries or chopped up dried apricots, but those would cost much more than raisins. Enjoy the recipe, and feel free to send me feedback to derek@poorboys.tv or hit me up on twitter @ddahlen

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Since I haven’t done an episode in a while, I decided I would try and get some content out there to appease those visiting the site. Today I made a bit of Pico using some canned tomatoes, and it turned out pretty darn well. Here are the ingredients and approximate prices.

Just dice the onion and peppers, chop the cilantro and stir in tomatoes, vinegar and spices

Also, the juice of 1 lime can be used instead of vinegar.

Chill overnight for best flavor )

Yields about 5-6 cups.

So this weekend, I kinda felt under the weather and it was a Friday night, so I decided to make some cookies. I got this recipe out of an old Lutheran Church Cookbook from Dahlen, North Dakota. Its a cheap cookie recipe because it has all the ingredients you probably already have, but supplements those with quick oatmeal, which will yield you more cookies in the end. So here is the recipe and instructions:

Cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla.  Add eggs and beat well.
Combine flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Stir in
oatmeal, chips, and nuts. Roll into balls and press down.
Bake at 350 for about 10 min or until golden brown.

These are pretty much the best cookies ever, they are a mix between a monster cookie and chocolate chip, I highly recommend trying them out.

Yesterday I filmed another episode of poorboys, I made some awesome pasta with a spicy garlic and onion marinara sauce. But of course, I had some leftovers today. So I wanted a bit of a snack and I thought of putting some pasta in between some bread, and then tossing it in a panini grill. It was awesome. You could really use any sort of George Foreman grill and put the sandwich in there. No butter necessary.

It gets the sandwich nice and grilled on the top and bottom and warm in the center. A perfect snack for a Saturday afternoon. You could toss any sort of variation on it, like putting a few slices of pepperoni in with the pasta, which would be really tasty as well.