I think I've been mentioning that the baking/cooking bug has really gotten to me this month. Every single day, I feel the urge to cook or bake something (or several things!) and I've been so busy cooking, I haven't even blogged about half of it yet!

When Crystal sent me a copy of her breakfast recipe ebook, "Simply Centsible Breakfasts", I could hardly wait to try some new things!

After making 5 batches of Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins, I moved on to her Easy Peanut Butter Granola. In a word, YUM!

Of course, I was able to transform "easy peanut butter granola" into "try-again peanut butter granola", and I managed to waste some good peanut butter in the process!

To start with, I was melting my peanut butter as the recipe said. I had used a spatula to clean out my peanut butter jar, and for some reason, was using that same spatula to stir it in the saucepan as it melted.

Before the peanut butter was even half-melted, I noticed something sticking to the bottom of the pan, and the harder I scraped, the more there was stuck. After stirring a little longer, I realised that my spatula had melted into the peanut butter. Yay!

So, I got a new pan* and opened a new jar of peanut butter. Those pesky all-natural peanut butters sure do like to separate, and I managed to get peanut butter on the counter as I tried to mix up the practically level-full jar of separated peanut butter.

Finally, it was mixed, and I scooped out a cup to use for my granola. I chose a silicone spatula to stir the pan. I rarely use my one silicone spatula, but now I'm down to 2 spatulas in my kitchen, and I knew at least this one wouldn't melt on me!

I must not melt peanut butter often enough, because I didn't realise that turning the heat on medium and going over to measure out some oats would result in burned peanut butter.

So, I'm back at the beginning again, trying to get some peanut butter melted without melting a spatula or burning it!

But it was worth all the hard work... and I'm definitely making this granola again. With a silicone spatula and the heat turned to low. ;) 

*Thankfully, I was able to clean the plastic off my first pan later!