The Best Granola | alexandra's kitchen

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Hello! I recently migrated my blog from blogspot to wordpress. This site is still a bit under construction and might not be fully up-and-running for several more weeks. I’m hoping, however, to post an entry this Friday and to continue with a once-a-week routine thereafter. I’m looking forward to getting back on track!

Posted on alexandra’s kitchen blogspot blog:

It has come to my attention that my blog can take quite a bit of time to load on various computers. I’m not really sure why this is happening, but I find it very frustrating and I am in the process of doing something about it. Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that part of the reason I have been such a terrible blogger these past few weeks is because I’m trying to figure out what to do. I’ll keep you posted, and I apologize for the recent lack of activity on alexandra’s kitchen.

But before I leave you, I just thought I’d remind you all about one of my all-time favorite recipes. It has been over a year since I made this granola and it is just as delectable as I remember. The base recipe has been adapted from the Barefoot Contessa and the candied nut recipe comes from one of the Moosewood cookbooks. With the addition of dried cranberries and blueberries, this granola makes the best breakfast/snack/lunch/dinner ever. Seriously. It most definitely will appear on Olalie’s Menu.

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Candied cashews and almonds:

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Granola and nuts mixed with dried cranberries and blueberries:

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Nuts before roasting:

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Granola just out of the oven:

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Also, for those of you who live in the San Diego-Orange County area and have yet to make plans for Valentine’s Day, Cafe Mimosa is offering a four-course prix fixe tasting menu on both Friday and Saturday nights (Feb. 13th and 14th). The menu sounds fantastic!

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I’m one of those people who have that trouble with your blog. I always figured it was my bad internet connection, so it’s kind of comforting to know I’m not the only one. Good luck untangling the kinks!

-JJ

Mama JJ added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 4:50 am

Me, too. It usually takes a while to load but I guessed that it is because of all the photos, which are worth the wait! I’ll be here when you figure it all out

rena added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 6:05 am

Fabulous granola!!

VeggieGirl added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 6:20 am

Sometimes the reason some people have trouble with our blogs is because of some of the links we have on our side bar. I had Link Within on my blog and couldn’t even get on my own blog…removed and problem solved. By the way I love granola!!

Bellini Valli added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 6:53 am

Your granola looks great! I don’t have any trouble with the load time on your page, but I’ve heard that it can be an issue with graphics, or the number of posts per page.

Sara added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 7:30 am

The granola looks fantastic!! Homemade is the best! Good luck, I hope you get everything figured out soon!! I will keep coming back no matter what:)

Maria added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 8:40 am

That granola looks so tasty…except for the cashews. I once put cashews in my granola and had to gag down the whole 4 quarts of it…couldn’t throw it out cuz that stuff’s expensive! And I normally love cashews…I think I just didn’t like the roasted ones.

Yes, I have trouble with loading your blog but I love it anyway

Zoë added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 12:28 pm

Ah, this reminds me so much of my short time in Europe, when I first had my taste of granola plus yogurt! Looove (the menu looks scrumptious! I won’t be in the area but then again I don’t have a valentine either! Ha ha.)

Manggy added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 12:49 pm

The granola looks beautiful, especially the nuts!

noble pig added these pithy words on Jan 30 09 at 3:12 pm

Alas, I will admit to having trouble loading your front page as well. It didn’t bother me though because I could access it just fine from my work computer. If not I would have surely emailed you because your blog is one of my favorites!

katie added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 7:10 am

Nice job on the granola. I have to laugh - one person gags on the nuts, the other person says thank goodness for the nuts - isn’t it so wonderful that we’re all so different.

giz added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 8:58 am

Your blog loads fine for me - but you really don’t blog enough! I am always so excited when I see you have something new and delicious for me to drool over. I haven’t yet recovered from the fried cheese sandwich.

Foodycat added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 10:24 am

MMmm, delicious!! i have been meaning to make some forever. i should really work on that

ttfn300 added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 12:17 pm

I am charmed with your blog. You have marvellous recipes and precious(beautiful) photos. See you from Spain!!!

Chari added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 2:14 pm

well i’ll be. who would have thought to roast and candy the nuts FIRST before adding it to the granola. genius!

good luck with the site. enjoy the granola in the meantime!

cheers

squirrelbread added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 7:43 pm

The dried cranberries and blueberries look fabulous! I seriously want to try this out!

Carlie Illise added these pithy words on Jan 31 09 at 8:08 pm

A healthy and delicious looking granola! Really fantastic!

Cheers,

Rosa

Rosa's Yummy Yums added these pithy words on Feb 01 09 at 12:14 pm

Everything looks amazing! Since a lot of food blogs tend to have many photos, I think those with slower connections have a hard time loading the sites. i’ve always been ok with your site, but I have heard the same about mine.

Sharon added these pithy words on Feb 01 09 at 10:10 pm

your granola looks great!!!

mikky added these pithy words on Feb 02 09 at 5:12 am

Wonderful looking granola. The photos are a bit slow to load, good luck with it.

Parker added these pithy words on Feb 02 09 at 9:54 am

I hope you come back soon! We miss you!

The Blonde Duck added these pithy words on Feb 02 09 at 10:10 am

I don’t have a problem or have to wait at all. Sorry some people are having this problem though. The granola looks wonderful!

Bunny added these pithy words on Feb 02 09 at 6:03 pm

Strange how loading time should be so different from blog to blog. Your pictures are slow to load. Do you use a special program to prepare your posts?

Interesting that it could be due to a widget.

Psychgrad added these pithy words on Feb 02 09 at 11:10 pm

I’m in a granola phase right now and drooling over this! I’ve never tried making my own but I think I will bc I can’t find a store-bought ones with enough almonds and dried fruit. Yummmers.

DD added these pithy words on Feb 03 09 at 8:12 am

That does look like the best granola! I defenetly have to try homemadre granola soon! Good luck figuring what’s up with your blog.

Clumbsy Cookie added these pithy words on Feb 03 09 at 4:36 pm

First off, your fabulous photos are making me crave granola for the first time ever. Very nice job!

Second, I wonder if you just reduced your picture file size if that would help. I looked at the properties of your first three pictures and your file sizes were in the 600 to 900 kilobytes in size. By comparison, I looked at mine and they’re like 70 or 80 kilobytes. Do you use any program to edit your photos? Just for the heck of it, I saved one of your photos and was able to reduce the file size by 10 times by just saving it as a .jpg file rather than a .png, which is what it is. I use a program called Irfanview, which you can download at http://www.irfanview.com for free to do most of my photo editing. It’s relatively simple.

I don’t know… just throwing out some ideas for you to chew on

Jacque added these pithy words on Feb 03 09 at 5:49 pm

I’m not having any trouble with your blog. The granola looks great. BTW, I’ve passed on 2 blog awards to you. Go to my site for info, judyskitchen.blogspot.com.

Judy added these pithy words on Feb 04 09 at 8:23 am

That granola looks devine. The candied nuts must really bump it up a notch!

duodishes added these pithy words on Feb 04 09 at 3:23 pm

I love your photos,it just takes awhile to load! I would like to invite you to Foodista.com - the cooking encyclopedia everyone can edit. We have lots of easy recipes you can try, so do check us out. Would also love a link to this post from our site.(This will direct Foodista readers to your blog)Here’s how you can create inbound links from our site Check it out here. Thanks

thumbbook added these pithy words on Feb 05 09 at 11:23 pm

Awe thanks for working on the problem. Just so you know, your blog is definitely worth waiting for.

PS the granola sounds fab!

Gigi added these pithy words on Feb 06 09 at 12:07 am

Yours isn’t the only blog that I’ve had trouble getting to - it seems fine now. Love the granola.
There’s something for you on our blog.

giz added these pithy words on Feb 08 09 at 10:56 am

It never ceases to amaze me that yet another person from San Diego has a great blog! I love yours and can’t figure out why I didn’t know about it. Gorgeous photography…

kellypea added these pithy words on Feb 08 09 at 12:59 pm

Great looking granola and great looking blog. If you need help figuring out your issue if you have not already give me a shout on email. I would be glad to help

zesty

Zesty Cook added these pithy words on Feb 09 09 at 12:08 pm

I moved! Check me out at http://www.aduckinherpond.com

The Blonde Duck added these pithy words on Feb 10 09 at 5:56 am

Absolutely gorgous pictures! The granola looks fab.

It does take a while to load. It’s the pictures and widgets that take time to load. You could try reducing the amount of posts per page. Try three or four.

Emily added these pithy words on Feb 13 09 at 1:35 am