Coconut & Lime’s 5-year blogiversary contest has a deadline of today. So I better get this post up! I wanted to make Kiwi Sorbet, but I didn’t find inexpensive kiwis. It’s on the back burner for a day that I do.

I’ve been trying to perfect the breakfast granola I make. I love cold cereal, but it’s so expensive I prefer to make it. I think I originally based my recipe off of Amateur Gourmet’s recipe here, but I’ve changed it a bit in the past few months.

I thought that for the contest, I’d try adding some lime juice to give it a little zing, and thereby create a recipe with coconut and lime in it. I’m just a beginner at cooking, let alone creating recipes, but I think it worked out pretty well.The granola doesn’t taste like lime, but there is just enough other flavor to be different.

I thought I was being creative to add lime to breakfast, but then I noticed that Rachel herself just posted about coconut and lime waffles! Yum. I may have to try that next.

In the mean time, here’s my granola. (more…)