Granola and Super T<\/b><\/p>\n
I have a new recipe for granola that I’ve been wanting to make for a couple of weeks now. It sounds so, so yummy. The ingredients are oats, pistachios, walnuts, coconut chips, maple syrup, evoo, light brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, cardamom, and dried apricots.<\/p>\n
Sounds delicious, right? Now, I’ll post my recipe when I do make it because I’m just using the ingredients as a jumping off point. For instance, I’ll probably not use 2 different types of sweetener. I don’t really like sweet granola and using a whole lot of maple syrup in a recipe kind of goes against my frugal nature. <\/p>\n
Main question here: what kind of cardamom should I buy? I saw green, black and some in pods (the green kind, I think) at the store. Does it matter? Anybody have any cardamom advice? Maybe I should just mosey on over to Penzey’s.<\/p>\n
Okay, switching gears from granola, here.<\/p>\n
Last night, Jon and I all of a sudden remembered a band that we used to see while in college. I don’t know why we got to thinking about it but we did. The band is the Tyrone Smith Revue, also known as Super T. The band’s official website is here<\/a>. Basically, this band has been touring the South for the past 30 years — they even played the White House a few years ago. The front man, Super T, is in his seventies, y’all. He has more spine flexibility than most 30 year olds that I know. The audio on this clip is awful, but you might get a kick out of the first 30 seconds or so when he whips off his cape to reveal his Super T outfit, complete with red cowboy boots. Too bad the recording is so terrible because they are actually a really tight band with some accomplished musicians.<\/p>\n Makes me want to figure out what I can do for a living that would be as much fun as they seem to have in this band. <\/p>\n