"Alton's recipes are usually the acme of culinary chemistry. This recipe confirms that! Since I think one shouldn't rate a recipe that wasn't followed to the letter, I am rating the actual recipe. This is the best granola EVER! The cherries (among the other ingredients make is so sweet and chewy! I take it to my high school students when we go ice ""

"Alton's recipes are usually the acme of culinary chemistry. This recipe confirms that! Since I think one shouldn't rate a recipe that wasn't followed to the letter, I am rating the actual recipe. This is the best granola EVER! The cherries (among the other ingredients) make is so sweet and chewy! I take it to my high school students when we go""

"Perfectly lovely comfort food for an intimate dinner! Even though I don't care for fennel, I made the recipe exactly as written by Ina and we loved it. It always confuses me when people write on these comment threads saying how great a recipe is, but they have changed it up so as to be unrecognizable. May I say, that when you do this . . . You ar"

"This is NOT a bad rating. I'm making them as we "speak" and I'll be darned if 3 (or 4 as in the Basics book oz. of Parmesan is 1 cup! I have grated 4 ozs. and it looks more like 3 cups. I love to weigh ingredients because it is so exact. But this recipe and the one from the Basics book has me totally confused! I know they will be wonderful but I can't believe noone mentions this discrepancy. Too late for me now . . . here goes!"

"This is NOT a bad rating. I'm making them as we "speak" and I'll be darned if 3 (or 4 as in the Basics book) oz. of Parmesan is 1 cup! I have grated 4 ozs. and it looks more like 3 cups. I love to weigh ingredients because it is so exact. But this recipe and the one from the Basics book has me totally confused! I know they will be wonderful but I can't believe noone mentions this discrepancy. Too late for me now . . . here goes!"