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Apple Walnut Quick Bread

Maris Callahan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:00:39 +0000

For new bakers, quick breads are a great place to start because they don’t involve messy frostings or fondants, the only equipment you really need is a loaf pan and a wooden spoon or mixer and the recipes are usually not overly complicated – just a couple of steps. For more advanced bakers, quick breads are fun because there is a lot of room for trial and error. This recipe can be adapted with your favorite fresh fruits – pears, berries – anything that’s in season or looks good at the market. My love affair with quick breads started in first grade, when my mother and I made boxed quick bread for my class Thanksgiving party. It somehow became a tradition and I would whip up a loaf of cranberry bread from the ubiquitous blue box every year, until I realized that I could achieve an even better outcome with fresh cranberries and a little bit of orange zest. Of course, cranberry bread is one of those seasonal foods that it would just seem wrong to eat outside of November or December, which is why my quick bread repertoire has expanded to include peanut butter banana bread and healthier zucchini […]

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Easy Banana Bread

Maris Callahan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

When I was in college I lost some weight on Weight Watchers. The program was excellent and I saw the results I wanted but looking back, my diet consisted almost entire of highly processed foods full of chemicals in attempt to eat fewer calories. I participated in a community message board where I, along with a group of women all losing or maintaining weight, would post our daily menus for accountability. At first I was embarrassed that I relied on this anonymous Internet support to keep my diet under control, but eventually I realized that I was picking up valuable weight loss tips, healthy recipes, and as a result I participated in the group for several years. It was this group that finally led me to a perfect, easy banana bread recipe. In my opinion, the healthiest foods and recipes have real ingredients in additiob to a lot of flavor. Sometimes people equate food as being healthy as a result of being “low calorie.” Though that’s certainly true in some cases, it can be the opposite for foods that have been chemically altered in order for calorie reduction. If real, natural food is available to me, I’ll almost certainly choose that in a […]

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Fall Spiced Pumpkin Bread

Maris Callahan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:55:59 +0000

Since I began blogging I learned that if there is one thing that die-hard home cooks love, it’s seasonal food. While I appreciate pumpkin bread in October, cranberry sauce in December and strawberry sangria in June, their arrival at the farmer’s market or grocery store means more than just having a new item on the shelf: it symbolizes a new season. This week, in lieu of my regular worknight dinner post, I’m kicking off an entire week to my favorite Fall ingredient: pumpkin. Pumpkin pie might be reminiscent of Thanksgiving, but there are plenty of ways to enjoy pumpkin in pumpkin chocolate chip squares, pumpkin scones and even in spinach pumpkin penne, well before Turkey Day. Even though you can buy canned pumpkin year round, it just seems, well, sacrilegious to have it in July. And I’m not even religious at all. I adapted this recipe from the The Good Home Cookbook (which you can purchase from my Amazon store and a portion of the proceeds help support In Good Taste). The recipe called for canned pumpkin puree (not to be confused with pumpkin pie filling) and although high in sugar, the fat content is reasonable with canola oil used instead […]

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