Last night as Ryan and I watched The Sing Off, I did a little baking, which turned into lots of snacking. Fortunately I had a bit of the end result leftover to enjoy for breakfast today.
Pumpkin butter granola!
Pumpkin Butter Granola
- Makes four 1/4 cup servings
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Bake Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons pumpkin butter
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir until oats are no longer dry
- Spread out granola on a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray
- Bake for 15 minutes, flipping halfway through
- Allow to cool until granola is crunchy
This morning I enjoyed the granola with a cup of strawberry banana Greek yogurt.
Homemade granola is so easy and definitely cheaper than store-bought granola. I’m quite a fan!
(Past granola recipes may be found on my Granola Recipe Roundup page.)
Workout
Let’s fly through today’s workout recap! It was an upper body day in the gym and I completed three sets of 15 repetitions of the following exercises:
- Superset One: Bicep curls + Ryan’s awesome shoulder move
- Superset Two: Tricep pull downs + Upright rows
- Superset Three: Low pulls + Chest press
- Superset Four: Tricep extensions + Mac raises
- Superset Five: Incline bicep curls + Push ups
I love supersets! They keep my heart pumpin’ and my workout moving fast.
Te Quiero, Amarillo
On our way home from the gym today, the song Bailamos by Enrique Inglesias came on the radio.
Ryan and I were being tools in the car and singing the song in our sexy Enrique voices (we have a gift) when the chorus came on. While I opted not to sing some of the Spanish words that I couldn’t understand, Ryan plunged in and went for the gold.
Only he came up without a medal.
Actual words:
Bailamos! Let the rhythm take you over…
Bailamos!
Te quiero, amor mio
Ryan’s version:
Bailamos! Let the rhythm take you over…
Bailamos!
Te quiero, amarillo
Enrique was saying, “I want you, my love.” I took a bit of Spanish in my day and knew that Ryan’s wonderfully romantic version said, “I want you, yellow.”
Apparently someone has a strong affinity for the sunshiny color.
The best lyrics mix up I’ve ever heard came from my sister. One Christmas we were singing this Christmas classic:
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.
Leslie’s version went like this:
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Kokonos.
Um, what?
When I asked her what, exactly, Kokonos were she said, “I don’t know. I never really thought about it.”
You better believe my family now always sings “Folks dressed up like Kokonos” whenever we hear that song around Christmastime.
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Did you make your own pumpkin butter or buy it?
Haha now that i think of i say amarillo too… embarrassing!
Is that ryan in the crayon suit?
i didn’t make it. i used stonewall kitchen’s maple pumpkin butter to make the granola. and no, that’s some random kid i found in a yellow crayone suit by googling “yellow crayon.” 🙂
haha ok didnt know if it was a kid picture!
I totally thought it was a picture of Ryan as a little boy. Funny.
hahaha that would make the lyric change even better if that was actually Ryan dressed up as a yellow crayon
Can’t wait to try your recipe! Sounds delicious…
Have a nice day!
X
BAHAHA. That is hilarious! I love this post 🙂 Prob because I am THAT person who messes up lyrics to make it be what I THINK they’re singing. Hehe.
That granola does sound good….I gotta take the plunge and make some on my own! THanks for the inspiration, girl 🙂
OMG I love mixed up lyrics!
The oldie song that goes
‘Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.’
Well, I ALWAYS thought it said
‘there’s a bathroom on the right!’
I finally googled it one day and realized I was’t the only one who thought it, so I didn’t feel too silly 🙂
i LOVE that song!! that’s so funny. 🙂
My brother was 25 before he realized that CCR wasn’t saying “Bathroom on the right!” Glad to hear it wasn’t just us belting out those lyrics!
HA!! I always thought it was “bathroom on the right” also! I mean, I know it doesn’t make sense but I never thought about it until right now!
Your breakfast looks delicious! I love all your granola recipes! 🙂
Hahaha I think you found your Halloween costume!
Not gonna lie though, I always sing amarillo during that part too.
When I was little, my mom said I also used to sing an 80’s song, “Everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you” as “Everytime you go away, you take a piece of MEAT with you”
Typical, me. Can’t forget to take the food.
Haha! My worst one was when I was younger. There is a song that goes “lightning striking agaaaain.” I was singing, “I need, I need a maaaan.” My mom was DYING laughing.
Here is the tune..I am sure you’ve probably heard it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyRqdzF8swY
ha! i love that song!
Have you thought about trying this with apple butter? I got some a couple weeks ago at McBee Farms in SC and everybody at my house loves it on toast (homemade honey wheat bread this morning)- but I bet it’s even better in granola! 🙂
yes! i think you can use all kinds of butters!
I ALWAYS mess up song lyrics. I most definitely thought that Price’s “Raspberry Beret” was “strawberry champagne”! hahaha Becuase what the heck is a raspberry beret?! Of course strawberry champagne does not make sense when sung with the lyrics “the kind you find in a second hand store” but that really never dawned on me until my best friend pointed out just how wrong I was lol 🙂
is it weird I’m petty sure I always sang Ryan’s lyrics without even thinking about what they meant?
..and I graduated college with a minor in Spanish. all signs point to I’m an idiot.
I was just talking about mixed up lyrics yesterday. I really hated the song “If I Die Young”, because I thought it said “If I die young, bury me inside of you.” I thought it was super creepy and stupid. Turns out the words are “If I die young, bury me in satin.” Oh . . . . I always liked the melody, just hated the lyrics!
that song gives me the creeps as it is, let alone w/ your new words! 🙂
Glad I’m not the only one. I always turn off the radio when it come son.
haha! The lyric mix up with your sister reminds me of my aunt, who for 45 years thought the line to “winter wonderland” was “we’ll perspire, as we sit by the fire” instead of “conspire.” In her defense, it makes sense since a fire would be hot but I still laugh thinking about that one. Ryan’s is pretty bad though. I love you, yellow. haha
I LOVE granola! I’m going to try that cinnamon chia seed one soon! Chia seeds are deeeeelish!
Haha that is so cute. I love cheesy little family traditions that are randomly born like that. 🙂
Another Christmas song mixup – one day my young niece proclaimed that we should not be singing the song ‘Joy to The World’ because it wasn’t very nice. We asked her what part wasn’t nice and she said, “You know … Joy to the world, the Lord is scum”! Needless to say, we quickly set her straight, but we couldn’t help chuckle a bit.
oh my gosh that is so funny!
the Lord is scum – that is hilarious 🙂
At first I thought your title read “PEANUT Butter Granola”, and I was a little confused because I could’ve sworn you had made that before. Then as I started reading, I realized it was pumpkin, and I got really excited. This sounds so good!
The song thing makes me laugh because I make up words to songs all the time. Half the time they don’t even make sense. 🙂
That granola looks great! Most granola is way too sugary for my liking, but your recipe looks pretty reasonable. I don’t have any pumpkin butter though. What would you recommend using in place of the pumpkin butter?
Hilarious!! My most recent goof up is Lady gaga’s Just dance. I never understood why she opened the song with “Red Wine” – I always went along with it. Now I know she actually says “Red One” – her producer 🙂
i thought the same thing!
wait- she ISN’T saying red wine? Well.. I just learned something new today…..
Seriously–I heard it this morning while getting ready for work and was still singing, “red wine.” Because the next set of lyrics starts with “I’ve had a little bit too much….” don’t they? So it kind of makes sense? Or just to me? 🙂
My classic lyric mix up as a kid was due to Mom’s penchant for easy listening radio stations. Sade was really big then, and her hit “Smooth Operator” played a lot. However, I thought the lyrics were, “smooth out the red eye.” My family traveled a lot, so it made sense to me–red eyes were rough trips! 😉
This put a HUGE smile on my face this morning!! Your posts are always so cheery and upbeat…just what I needed today!
I think I may have to whip out my best Enrique youtube mixes today at work…I don’t think the students will mind, right? 😉
Have a great day, it looks promising weather-wise here in the Midwest!
Loving Ryan’s version of the song. 🙂 my little brother is notorious for making up his own song lyrics.. it is quite entertaining!
hahahah i always say amarillo too:)
That granola looks delicious! I love anything peanut butter so I’m going to have to try it!
I totally think I thought it was amarillo in the song too! Haha! My fiance thought in the Billy Joel song, “Only the good die young,” was “only the good times roll.” I started singing along to the song once and he didn’t know that it was only the good die young!
I make my own words up for songs all the time. 😛 I especially botch up “Miami” by Will Smith.
I am totally that girl who makes up lyrics as she goes along…glad I’m not the only one 🙂
Meant to add: I just blogged abt Galloway’s Walk/Run method in case you’re interested!
Perfect fall granola! <3 fall food!
I am notorious for messing up lyrics….sometimes they aren’t even real words, I just make sounds that I think sound like the words they are saying. For example; Rhianna’s “Cheers” I don’t know what they say after “cheers to the freaking weekend…I’ll drink to that” pretty much everything after that is made up words by me 🙂
But, my BF will never let me forget the time I sang “here we are now in containers” for Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit….the actual lyric is “here we are now…ENTERTAIN us” —actually had to look this up because I STILL can’t ever remember what it is supposed to say.
hahah! i always thought it was amarillo as well! thanks for clearing that up 🙂
that granola looks fantabulous.
I am notorious for making up lyrics! That like a G6 song, I think I made up a whole new song since I had no clue what they were saying 😉
Hahha! Thanks for the laugh this morning Julie – that yellow, it’s just irresistible! 😛 The granola sounds delicious. I agree with you that store-bought kinds are so expensive, and it’s so unnecessary when you can just make it yourself! Have a great day!
Yum! that granola looks so good!!!
My grandfather used to make up lyrics to songs…..it got to the point where he didn’t even remember the original lyrics!
I am notorious for making up song lyrics. I never really knew the words to the end of bailamos. Thanks for setting me straight:) I predict lots of variations on this granola… Apple butter. Fig butter yum
Hillarious, I think making up lyrics is so funny but everyone seems to do it! A few years ago I caught my sister singing “I can see clearly now that Lorraine has gone…” she had no idea who Lorraine was and was completely mystified when I informed her it was actually “now that the rain has gone.”
Good times.
hahhahahaha awesome.
Haha – your post definitely cheered me up and made me laugh. And grave granola 😉
I think “Kokonos” looks (sounds) like “Kokusnuss” which is the German word for coconut. Wouldn’t it be funny if they did dress up like coconuts? 🙂
I actually just did a post on this! Messing up the lyrics and singing what you think they are is apparently called Mondegreens! I did a blog post on them a while back, and was cracking up at the lyrics commenters were posting!! 🙂
One of my best friends thought the lyrics to “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John were:
Hold me ghost of Tony Danzaaaaa.
Nope. Not kidding.
My friend also sings those lyrics to Tiny Dancer. It cracks me up. Loved this post, such a good laugh to start the day.
HIL-ARIOUS.
I was always creeped out by that song because I thought it said “Hold me close and tie me down, sir.” Not so into bondage 🙂
This is so much better.
This post made me laugh out loud! I love when people mess up lyrics, it’s so awesome.
AND: I’ve gotten hooked on The Hunger Games. Did you ever read the second book? I just finished it and think it’s better than the first.
yes! i read the whole series and liked them a lot. can’t wait for the movies!!
Have you ever heard the song “Hazel, stop the music”? Some lady on Ellen thought that’s what Rihanna was saying in “Please don’t stop the music”. I died. And now my friends and I sing her new lyrics. PS I was a yellow crayon for Halloween last year and my besties were the pink, purple and green crayons!
no! off to google that…
I am half deaf (literally) so I am notorious for this. I thought “mama say mama saw mama ku sah” was “mama say mamma saw, ma make cole slaw.” Yeah. I wrote an entire post about it.
http://breakfasttobed.com/2011/08/31/most-epic-fail-lyric-mishear-ever/
That totally reminds of Phoebe on Friends. “Hold me closer, Tony Danza!”
ahhh! i was JUST talking about that episode w/ my friend laurel this weekend!!
That granola looks sooooo good!!! And I’m dying at the Te Quiero Amarillo. The former Spanish teacher in me coming out. 😉
That song by Justin timerlake where he says “girl had me going”, I was singing it once and my sister said What Did You Just Say and I said “go ahead big girls”!!! If u listen, you’ll know where I was coming from 😉
i totally know what you’re talking about and that is hysterical!
and i actually never knew the real words either!
Oh my gosh…those aren’t the lyrics?? I thought it was “go ahead big girls.” HA!
Haha I feel do much better now!! I’m not alone 🙂
I ALWAYS make up words when i don’t know them because I just want to keep singing. I love Ryan’s versions of songs!
Your granola recipes are sooooooo great. I don’t know which one to try first. Yikes. What’s your favorite one of all times? And the yellow crayon suit? Too much! Singing and baking always go together? he he!
my favorite is probably the peanut butter or almond butter granola. so delicious!
LoL! I love this so much, it cracks me up! Go Ryan! 😛
My boyfriend Tom comes up with the most hilarious lyrics to songs…I swear, he just makes up words and then puts them in.
He is constantly singing that song “we’re gonna party like, it’s 2012”, except he always goes: “we’re gonna party like, it’s nineteen seventy twelve” I have no idea why he thinjs that makes sense. 😛
Also, when he sings the african opening bit from “the circle of life”, that lion king song, it makes me laugh so much! 😀 Total. Jibberish.
bless them 😉 xyx
Too funny with Ryan! ahahah I used to make words up all the time when I didn’t know them. (Okay.. still do).
The one that sticks out in my head the most is Savage Garden’s “I Knew I loved you”
Actual:
I knew I loved you before I met you
My version:
I never loved you before I met you
ha! that one makes more sense to me, actually. 🙂
haha I tend to just mumble when I don’t know the words! And I always do supersets with my weight training, I never understand how guys just sit there between sets! Doing super sets keeps your heart rate up and saves time!
I always make up my own versions of songs. Always. Ha! And Keith thinks it is hilarious. I can’t help it…once I hear it a few times I think I know it so I start singing Kelly style.
Oh and totally random but I realize it is October (where does the time go???) and doesn’t that mean you have a special anniversary coming up soon? I can not believe you have been Mrs. Fagan for almost a year now. 🙂
yes!!! the last weekend of the month. i can’t believe it has been a year. wow.
Hey, I guess you missed my question: Is there anything you’d recommend using in place of pumpkin butter? 🙂
you can use apple butter, or i bet regular pumpkin would work as well, but you might need to add more honey/cinnamon/pumpkin pie spice.
Thanks! I’m not really familiar with apple butter or pumpkin butter, so I’ll have to check them out. I think my little boy will have a lot of fun helping with the granola.