Sometimes, you get the sudden urge to start playing with vine decide to make some homemade granola because you just ran out of the last batch that you made. In moments like these, you think about your errant past when you used to buy granola, but no more. These days, you realize, you don’t even need to use a recipe. These days, you think to yourself, you understand, fundamentally, what is in a granola.
It is in this moment that you stare down your oats and get to work. Your pantry has plenty of dry goods. You like to think that this is your primal gatherer at work. You push from your mind disparaging animal terms like “pack rat” and “magpie”.
The combination that is meant to make sweet love combine on your palate becomes clear to you. Oats, cinnamon, walnuts, blueberries, coconut, and maple syrup. That flaxseed, you throw that in for kicks.
You get to work.
Your kitchen smells like love warm granola. You look forward to the morning. You end your day in victory.