Quickbreads :

Soup and Bread

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Soup and bread... a simple, elemental, satisfying meal. It's also the name of one of my favorite cookbooks, Dairy Hollow House Soup and Bread , by Crescent Dragonwagon. It's about the soups and breads served by CD and[...]

Banana Benefits

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The appearance of spotty, super-ripe bananas will always equal one of two things in a household: delight or anathema. If you have the time to devote to baking up one of the trillions of banana breads out there, and the mouths to feed it to, then[...]

Better Together

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I have a love for peanut butter. I was one of those kids who would take to a jar of Kraft with a soup spoon, eating mountains of the spread at a time. I was also a pretty big fan of the Caramilk chocolate bars, and their thick, gooey-sweet[...]

Thatboy's girls

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Today has been a very good day for Thatboy. As I sit and type this, he's watching Ke$ha dancing around the stage on last week's SNL. When I shot him a "really?" look, he quickly defended himself. "What? I like her!" And earlier tonight we[...]

After the Frost

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Don't forget, Ontario residents - enter to win a Gay Lea baking basket of goodies worth $60! Deadline is midnight tonight ! Well, we had our first "major" frost snap last night - not surprising, seeing as it's mid-November now, but stil[...]

Berry Brilliant

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Banana bread has to be one of those recipes, like brownies and chocolate chip cookies, that has about a zillion and one variations, techniques and tricks. Pretty much, though, no matter what you do to it, it always comes out edible, if not[...]

Sunday's Carrots

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Whenever we have dinner guests at our house, the "hot vegetable" items my mom puts out are always one or two of these choices: broccoli, cauliflower, or carrots. Yes, just like those iconic, frozen medlies that peppered the[...]

Emptying the Bag

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It's a toss up for me as to how I feel about the holiday food scene. I mean, though I despise pumpkin pie and think mincemeat is something best buried deep underground, I make several versions of both, and given their reception by[...]

Banana Bran Loaf

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Looking for an easy, delicious, wholesome breakfast treat? Something a little healthier to break up the richness of pumpkin pie and egg nog and all the super-sinful treats that go hand in hand with the holidays? Then this loaf might interest[...]

Banana Bran Loaf

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Looking for an easy, delicious, wholesome breakfast treat? Something a little healthier to break up the richness of pumpkin pie and egg nog and all the super-sinful treats that go hand in hand with the holidays? Then this loaf might interest[...]