The Good Earth Peanut Company

Recipe #3 Contest Winner

Peanut Granola

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 cups old fashion oats
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
2 cups roasted good earth peanuts
1 cup raisins
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 egg

Combine brown sugar, water, peanut butter in microwave safe container and heat on high 11/2 minutes to 2 minutes. When sugar mixture is heated remove and add the vanilla. Meanwhile combine the rest of the ingredients except egg in large bowl. Pour the sugar mixture over dry ingredients and mix well. Add the egg if you want more of a crunchy texture. Bake 325 degrees for about 30 to 40 minutes stirring every 10 minutes to prevent burning or sticking. Let cool, the granola will hard when cool, and add favorite dried fruit if desired. Keep in airtight container for 2 weeks. Great snack for kids.

Jo Mudd

The Judges

Daniel Rogov

Daniel has been writing about food and wine for more years than he will admit in public. For the last twenty years he has been the Wine and Restaurant Critic for the Israeli Daily, Ha'Aretz. Rogov also contributes regularly on dining and wine to several European newspapers and magazines; and is an advisor to Hugh Johnson's "Pocket Wine Encyclopaedia" and contributes to Tom Stevenson’s “Wine Report”. His own book “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines has just been published by Toby press and can be ordered through Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. He also maintains Rogov's Ramblings, an internet site devoted to wine, gastronomy and travel.

Jenise Stone

Jenise is a an avid foodie and accomplished cook from Los Angeles who contributes to the Food Lovers Discussion Group, an internet bulletin board devoted to food chat, recipe sharing and friendship.

Robin Garr

Robin Garr has been involved in wine appreciation online since the mid-1980s, serving as a manager of CompuServe's Wine Forum for nearly a decade before the evolution of the World Wide Web. He created the Wine Lovers' Page in 1994 as one of the first independent wine-education Websites, and has presided over its growth as the largest, most popular and most highly awarded wine destination on the Internet. He began its Wine Lovers' Discussion Group, the first Web-based interactive community for the intelligent and civil discussion of wine online, in 1996; and he launched his popular E-mail newsletter, The 30 Second Wine Advisor, at the start of 1999.

Susan Rager

Susan is a criminal defense attorney with good taste, is a native of the Northern Neck of Virginia, where she practices law in Historic Downtown Coles Point. Since her law site, the Northern Neck of Virginia Law Page, is a combination of interests, (law and local), she has collected a group of Maryland and Virginia recipes and links, as well as a large group of links called Recipes Too Good Not to be Southern, which are available through her web site. A fearless cook, she believes that success and strategy in the kitchen is no different from that for life in general - careful attention to detail and a sense of humor are essential. Or, as Lucy Madeira Wing put it, "Function in disaster; finish with style."