{"id":5380,"date":"2013-05-03T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/food\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2013-05-03T03:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:11:48","slug":"homemade-granola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/food\/homemade-granola\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Granola"},"content":{"rendered":"I<\/span>t’s been raining cats and dogs these past few days. Everyday cloud threatens storm and days are often dull, dark and gloomy. Not a picturesque condition for any photographer out there. But a perfect day to bake.<\/p>\n

A lot of granola.<\/p>\n

And then cry over a huge batch that burnt in the process.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes things just don’t work out as planned. Like overcooking eggs, burnt toasts, baking disasters etc. Juggling daily responsibilities definitely takes a lot of toll on the creativity too.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to baffle about how others seem to have this preconceived notion about how some of us have this so-called “perfect life”.<\/p>\n

Just because I blog about food, talk about food, heck, live my life surrounded by food and consistently updating Facebook about our meals — doesn’t sum up perfection. In fact, our life is a far cry from perfection.<\/p>\n

And we are fine with that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Who needs a perfect life anyways. That would just spell BORING. Tell me I’m right about this \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Like this platter of disastrous granola. I mean, how simple can baking a granola be that I ended up burning a large batch? I did warn you about my baking skills many times, so which part of this makes it looks like I have a “perfect life”?<\/p>\n

OK, fine. I love food styling and I spend a huge chunk of my time, sweat (and money!) to perfect the look I want to achieve over a recipe. That’s a lot of\u00a0hard-work, my dear. Where does it spell “perfection”?<\/p>\n

I’m flattered, thank you, but perfection doesn’t work when I have a pile of dirty laundry and dishes, awaiting to be tackled. And how my to-do list just gets longer each passing day.<\/p>\n

Just pointing out the reality and obvious, my friends \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Ingredients<\/span>:<\/p>\n