Heavy Stuff

Late summer's rainy weather brought branch-bending juicy raspberries. I'm hoping for a batch of jam.

Red, White & Blue

First of the season.

Fall Granola

My friend swears by my granola recipe and I do too, although I actually couldn't find my copy ... so I improvised. Here is my world's best granola topped with my own garden fresh raspberries and poured with plain soy milk. Yep, they're still a comin'. I love this stuff! This week I've rotated eating big bowls filled with it for lunch, breakfast and dinner. Perfect nutrition. Sensational taste.

World's Best SAS Fall Granola Recipe

4 cups oatmeal

1 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup brown flax seeds

1/2 cup coconut flakes*

*(unsweetened or sweetened)

1/8 cup honey

1/8 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup almond oil

vanilla to taste

cinnamon to taste

freshly ground nutmeg to taste

I like fresh raspberries, pears or bananas on the Fall Granola. Any berries are good!

Mix all ingredients together. Divide in half and spread evenly onto 2-cookies sheets and rotate them in oven, over a 10 minute-plus period, at 350 degrees. Using a metal scraper, turn oat mixture every few minutes. Allow to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.

Raspberry Ice-cream Buzz

This year's raspberries are in! Love them. Cannot wait to pick 'em from my back yard bushes during a quiet summer evening. More so, eating them. Is there any better way to nosh raspberries than by tumbling a handful into your mouth? And how about drinking them?

I adore these rubies in an ice-cream drink that I concocted last summer for my husband. He'd endured an all too hot day mowing the lawn. Also, this recipe at Smitten Kitchen looks entirely possible and delicious too -- with raspberries (not that the nectarines don't sound great).

Raspberry Buzz 

6 full scoops vanilla ice-cream 

(I like Breyer's All Natural Vanilla Bean)

1/4 cup 1/2 & 1/2

1 cup fresh organic raspberries

2 TBS Amaretto di Sarano 

1 1/2 teaspoon Kahlua

Blend ice-cream and raspberries with hand blender (I love my Cuisinart) or in the blender while slowly adding the 1/2 & 1/2 (milk is option too) ... do so until the ice--cream is close to the final consistency that you wish. Keep it thicker because the Amaretto Di Sarano & Kahlua will thin this mixture out. Quickly blend in Amaretto di Sarano and Kahula at end. Makes two 8 oz drinks ice-cream drinks.