Livin' the Dream in Lima

So, I was all about pumpkin recipes on Thursday of every week. And currently it's Saturday and there has been no pumpkin recipe. Life got busy. Funny how teaching starts to take over your life! (Oh, plus Bible study and small group and Tastefully Simple parties and cross country meets. It's been a busy fall. But I love it.) Last night I finally  got to hang out in the kitchen! (Yes my idea of a good Friday night. Heh.) I made up a batch of pumpkin spice granola . Remember this pumpkin yogurt ? Yeah, why not double-dose and top it with pumpkin granola? And this granola is good. My Business Man and I pretty much ruined our dinner snacking away on it. (Not that I cooked dinner. We got our standby - Friday night $12 pizza. It'd actually been since May since we had our beloved Beer Barrel. It wasn't as good as we remembered, which saddened me.) Anyways, back to the granola.  It starts out with a mixture of rolled oats and crisp rice cereal. And then...

Okay... so I set out to make these granola bars to take with us on our travels tomorrow. Because our flight leaves at 12:28pm, and I'm pretty sure they don't provide you lunch on a 2-hr trip to Florida. Though, I could be mistaken.  The only thing is... they only kind of turned out as granola bars. More like granola chunks.  Cutting them into perfect squares proved to be quite impossible. We'll just call them rustic? But, the wonderful combination of peanut butter and dark chocolate can't be beat. I found these new dark chocolate morsels a few weeks ago, and re-discovered them in my baking cabinet today. Think itty bitty Dove dark chocolates, in chocolate chip form. So so good. I combined these with some oats, honey, chopped peanuts, and peanut butter. Keepin' it simple. With real  ingredients! A quick bake in the oven, and you have granola bars chunks! Delicious with a glass of milk or crumbled over some yogurt. Or ice cream. (Shhh.....