One of the benefits of inflation is being forced to once again, make my own granola. While browsing the shelves at any grocery store, I marvel at not just the prices, but the ingredients. I see pumpkin seeds, banana chips, dried cherries, shaved almonds, and yes, crushed filberts. We should know better. Granola is cereal by another name.
This is not the time to be clever. To introduce obscure nuts or exotic fruits. It’s time to stick to what we know and what has never led us astray. That is, of course, the raisin. The raisin does enough, without the obnoxious intrusion from produce with better PR. The raisin does plenty, adding a little flavor – but not too much – because this is granola, not a dessert at a fancy restaurant.
Granola shouldn’t have dozens of ingredients. It should have four, maybe five. That’s it. The template for cereal has always been one or two, so why push things to an absurd, unsustainable degree with more?
And like anyone with good humor, the raisin is dry.
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