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Hi you two!

HA! I told you so...stuff as many as you can in your suitcases, because you won't find them in your area!

PS...the coconut glazed kind are super yummy too!
Fortunately, I didn't see the coconut ones. I've eaten too many of the others already! Thanks for telling us about them. I brought several containers home. :)
No sorry, I didn't even think about it. It was very good though. Next time I'll photograph it.:)
Sounds delicious!
The Spice Gun
designer's own words:
spice gun is different from the other casters,it has more fun! when you pull the trigger to compress the air in the air bag. The handspike will push the bottom of the seasoning bottle to make the nozzle in the turntable to retract and spray the seasoning.
I can see this becoming the cheap man's pepper spray. :D
 
Fortunately, I didn't see the coconut ones. I've eaten too many of the others already! Thanks for telling us about them. I brought several containers home. :)
Welcome back! I trust you are tanned and rested? I'm glad you found the macadamias...I just knew you would love them.
 
For Ms Tinkersquash

Cranberry Nut Bread/Muffins

2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Banking Soda
>>>Mix together in bowl

2 Tablespoons Shortening
>>>Cut shortening into dry ingredients

1 Tablespoon Grated Orange Peel
3/4 Cup Orange Juice
1 Egg, well beaten
>>>Stir into dry ingredients until just moist

1 Cup Cranberries, coarsely chopped
1/2 Cup Nuts, chopped and dusted with flour
>>>Fold into batter

>>>Spoon into greased and floured loaf/muffin pan (or use liners)
Bake fruit bread at 350 degree oven for 60 minutes.
Makes one loaf.
Bake muffins at 400 degree oven for 20 minutes.
Makes 12 muffins.

>>>Top with glaze made with 1/2 Cup powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon orange peel, 1 Tablespoon orange juice.
 
Cranberry Nut Bread/Muffins

It looks good. You might try lingonberries instead of cranberries if they are available. They are wild here, and you pick them in the fall around the time of the first frost. Locally, people call them lowbush cranberries.

Which gets me to last weekend. I pulled the last bit of cranberry nut cake that my aunt always bakes at holiday time from the freezer and ate it. I didn't realize, when I ate it, that it was probably the last time I would every be eating her holiday cake as she's quite ill now and unable to do much of anything. I do need to get her recipie.
 
I have some oh so ripe bananas that need to be made into bread. Who has a tried and true recipe that is full of banana flavor?
 
Quick Banana Bread

I have some oh so ripe bananas that need to be made into bread. Who has a tried and true recipe that is full of banana flavor?
I just made a double batch of this over the weekend. I like it because it's simple. It's my favourite recipe.

Preheat oven to 350. (ca. 8½ X 4½ inch loaf)
Sift together:
1 and 3/4 cups flour
2 and 1/4 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt

Blend until creamy:
1/3 cup shortning
2/3 cup sugar (I use dark brown)
Beat in 1 to 2 eggs
1 to 1 and 1/4 cups ripe banana pulp

Combine gradually until well mixed.
Pour batter into a greased pan and bake for about an hour or until done.

We ate ours warm with some maple buttercream glaze. After it cools and firms up well, it's sturdy enough for the toaster - and for me, that's when it's best. :D
 
I just made a double batch of this over the weekend. I like it because it's simple. It's my favourite recipe.

Preheat oven to 350. (ca. 8½ X 4½ inch loaf)
Sift together:
1 and 3/4 cups flour
2 and 1/4 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt

Blend until creamy:
1/3 cup shortning
2/3 cup sugar (I use dark brown)
Beat in 1 to 2 eggs
1 to 1 and 1/4 cups ripe banana pulp

Combine gradually until well mixed.
Pour batter into a greased pan and bake for about an hour or until done.

We ate ours warm with some maple buttercream glaze. After it cools and firms up well, it's sturdy enough for the toaster - and for me, that's when it's best. :D
ooooh, I like the idea of just using brown sugar instead of white. and the maple buttercream glaze sounds yumtastic.

did you use butter for the shortening or crisco?

Thanks tink!:kiss:
 
ooooh, I like the idea of just using brown sugar instead of white. and the maple buttercream glaze sounds yumtastic.

did you use butter for the shortening or crisco?

Thanks tink!:kiss:
I used butter, and I never leave out cinnamon or nutmeg when making carrot or banana bread. I don't measure, I just shake until my wrist gets tired :D
 
I used butter, and I never leave out cinnamon or nutmeg when making carrot or banana bread. I don't measure, I just shake until my wrist gets tired :D

Sexy. I love a spicy bread.

I love coming back from vacation and see all you Foodies active. Warms me cockles, it does.
 
Cockles are a clam found in lower Cook Inlet. They are very chewy.

Yes. I'm inordinately fond of bivalves. I've sampled most every variety, with glee. Even the daunting geoducks.

Cockles and mussels, alive alive-o...

Mine are warmed by you ne'erdowells.
 
Yes. I'm inordinately fond of bivalves. I've sampled most every variety, with glee. Even the daunting geoducks.

Cockles and mussels, alive alive-o...

Mine are warmed by you ne'erdowells.
Geoducks make me giggle like a schoolgirl.


Roasting the root vegetables!
 
It's cold and icy tonight, I would kill for a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup. However, I didn't know it was going to be so bad and I didn't plan very well. :(
 
The BEST Peanut Butter Cookies EVER. I've used plenty of peanut butter cookie recipes, but I made these over the weekend and they are the best. The honey, dark brown sugar and black pepper really make a difference.

1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper

Mix butter and peanut butter together for about 30 seconds. If you mix it too long, the butters gets airy and you end up with fluffy cookies. I don't like fluffy peanut butter cookies.

Add the sugars, soda, salt, baking powder, pepper, vanilla and eggs. Mix til well blended. Mix in flour, stir by hand if the batter is too thick.

I cover the batter and put it in the fridge for about an hour.

Roll into 1" balls. Roll in sugar. Put the balls on a cookie sheet and criss-cross with a fork-dipping fork in sugar if necessary.

Bake at 375 for about 7 minutes. Don't over cook.

Let cool and hide them fast!!!
 
It's cold and icy tonight, I would kill for a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup. However, I didn't know it was going to be so bad and I didn't plan very well. :(
It's the same weather here and on the way home from the grocery store this afternoon, I mentioned to my son that I wished I'd thought to pick up some tomato soup. :)
 
It's the same weather here and on the way home from the grocery store this afternoon, I mentioned to my son that I wished I'd thought to pick up some tomato soup. :)

It's the perfect night for it, I might have to bake instead. I'm in a "comfort food" kind of mood.

ETA: If I had peanut butter I'd totally make Del's cookies - yum.
 
Cockles are a clam found in lower Cook Inlet. They are very chewy.

Oh, and I thought of you at our luau, thør. They had tako poke, in addition to the ahi poke. Both were out of this world, and took up fully half of my plate (1/4 was kalua pig, and the rest of the sundry offerings were crammed into the remaining 1/4).

Geoducks make me giggle like a schoolgirl.

Roasting the root vegetables!

Your giggles melt me. Of course, precious little about you doesn't.

I can smell the root veggies from here. Enjoy!

My bag just arrived from its globetrotting. Everything seems to be there, including my "you-scented" pillowcase... and my presents for you! I'll get them in the mail this afternoon. Meanwhile, back to the office for me.

*loves*
 
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