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These muffins are bananas

These muffins are essentially the nutritional equivalent of a bowl of oatmeal, so I think they can be enjoyed all week long and not just on "breakfast dessert weekend (TM)". I got the recipe from https://pinchofyum.com/banana-bread-muffins and made almost no modifications. Ingredients * 2 cups old

Easy Recipe Ideas

Last month we had a baby, which definitely makes cooking a bit more challenging. This list has a strong focus on things that can be made quickly and ideally if you suddenly were interrupted won't burn. Also, for the most part, they avoid using the oven because it&

Flour-less Chocolate Birthday Cake

Flour-less Chocolate Birthday Cake

Generally Elliott isn't really a dessert person, so when I've asked him what kind of birthday cake he wants it's usually one of four things: (1) Sour cream coffee cake his mom used to make - I have the recipe for this, but so

Shortcut Green and Grainy Buttermilk Soup

Bon Appetit published this recipe for Grains in Herby Buttermilk last year. It's very tasty, but I've developed some shortcuts to make it even faster to make. Ingredients * 1 cup 10-minute faro or barley * garlic and onion powder * salt and pepper * 1/2 lemon * 1 bunch

Curried Carrot Soup

Curried Carrot Soup

It's the Lincoln Memorial! It has nothing to do with carrot soup except that I made this the same day I visited the Lincoln Memorial for the first time. I came up with this soup recipe the other day. I think the key is using a good curry

Ginger Apple Oats

Ginger Apple Oats

I'm a huge oatmeal fan. Since quarantine began, I've eaten oatmeal for breakfast most mornings. I often do a big batch of steel cut oats in the instapot and heat them up with milk in the morning, but I've been known to whip up

Ricotta Dumplings with Spinach Sauce

Ricotta Dumplings with Spinach Sauce

Once again, I forgot to take any pictures of this meal, but it was delicious and relatively easy to make. Here's a picture of Baker Beach, which was part of our epic city walk yesterday. Ingredients - Ricotta Dumplings * 15oz Ricotta cheese (one container) * 2 eggs * 1 cup

Dragon-Eats Style Noodle Bowl

Dragon-Eats Style Noodle Bowl

This recipe has a sort of long ingredient list and requires some chopping, but otherwise is pretty simple and very delicious. It's based on a noddle bowl from a Vietnamese restaurant near us called Dragon Eats. This serves four, so if you want to break it into two

Meal Ideas!

Dinner Ricotta dumplings with spinach sauce (medium) Stuffed peppers (medium) Dal with Rice (easy) Coconut beans with Cornbread (medium) Linguine with goat cheese and roasted carrots (easy) Veggie meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans (medium) Taco Salad (easy) Tortellini in Broth (easy) Beyond Burgers (easy) Veggie curry (green or

Chilaquiles

Surprise! Another picture that has nothing to do with the recipe because when I finished cooking, my first thought was "let's eat" not "let's take pictures in case I want to post this later". Anyways, chilaquiles were both easy to make and

Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Elliott's favorite birthday cake is a sour cream chocolate chip coffee cake that his mom used to make. I acquired the recipe a few years ago, but either because Elliott's mom knew it so well or because I did a bad job copying it, there are

Cashew and Rice Balls with Raita

Cashew and Rice Balls with Raita

I don't have a great name for this recipe, but let's face it, neither did the Bon Appetit Chicken and Rice Meatballs with Hummus this is inspired by. In spite of the lackluster name, both Elliott and I were big fans of this dish. It'

Chickpea and Wild Rice Instapot Stew

This was a bit of an experiment and I don't have exact spices written down (plus I used a bunch of unusual Indian spices that aren't common pantry staples - feel free to experiment with the spices to come up with something you like). Ingredients * 2

Ginger Scallion Dumplings

This weekend was lunar New Year! Happy year of the rat. To celebrate, I decided to make dumplings. I made a whole package worth of dumpling wrappers, so I froze most of them. To freeze uncooked dumplings, you just put them on a tray in the freezer for a couple

Switching Converter Overview

One of my visions for this blog was that it would be a good way to learn about and document electronics topics with a bit more detail/rigor than say EDN, but without needing to crack open a Calc 3 textbook. I've produced a few posts (like my

Fun and Random Link!

Just found my master's thesis online. Linking it here in case I ever want to consult it again: Master's Thesis

Ginger Apple Crisp

Ginger Apple Crisp

I enjoy reading recipes and food blogs online, but I have this pet peeve when someone writes a review to the tune of: "I made this recipe, but substituted 3/4 of the ingredients and cooked it differently: 3 stars". Dude, this review tells me nothing about the

Learning C

This is more coding that circuits, but C is at the heart of most embedded devices, so here are the resources I'm using to learn C and links to the "learning code" I'm writing to test out the new datatypes, etc I'm

The Two Layer Party Cake!

The Two Layer Party Cake!

This is a post about possibilities - the possibility that is the two layer party cake. As evidenced below - this is my go-to party cake. It's also possible to split the recipe and go single layer with a simple glaze for a brunch or smaller occasion. The

Thanksgiving 2018!

Thanksgiving 2018!

For the second year, Elliott and I decided not to travel for Thanksgiving and instead hosted a bunch of friends (and family!) in our apartment. We had nine people in total and I think it was a really wonderful time. I tried out a bunch of new recipes this year

About

Hi and welcome to Where's the Granola - a website dedicated to cooking, circuits, and whatever else I'm interested in that month. I don't update terribly regularly, but whenever I come up with a good recipe I want to remember or research something interesting

Veggie Strata

Last night we had a friend over for dinner and I made meatloaf (see new edit!). I optimistically bought a herb focaccia, but there was a lot of food and we barely made a dent in it. By today I could tell it was already getting stale, so when I

FWD: Baked "Peati"

Baked ziti is delicious, but definitely falls into the category of not that healthy. I decided I wanted to make some baked ziti and found a chickpea based pasta called Banza which totes 25g of protein and 13g of fiber. I've had mixed luck with bean based pastas

FWD: "Paneer" Tika Masala

FWD: "Paneer" Tika Masala

Does Indian food sound like it would be hard to make? It is! Unless you take a zillion short cuts like I'm going to suggest here. The ingredients for this recipe are most easily obtained at Whole Foods. Sometimes Whole Foods actually has Paneer, but it's

Fast Weekday Dinners: The Disclaimer

Fast Weekday Dinners: The Disclaimer

Here's a new blog type I'm trying called Fast Weekday Dinners (FWD). A lot of people advertise "fast weekday dinners", but I don't think they're actually fast enough. When I get home from work, I literally want to be able