Cornbread with Sharp Cheddar and Chives

Cornbread makes a great dish for fall and autumn. It’s particularly yummy when you serve it with chile or some other type of Tex Mex recipe.  There is a great recipe for Cheddar Chives Cornbread at Best Bread Recipes Web Site

Excellent Recipe for Rustic White Bread

Winter is coming, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. What better way to enjoy a meal on a cold winter’s night than with home made rustic white bread?  This delicious bread is made from a sponge that you start the day before.  The overnight workings of the sponge assures a rich and rewarding taste to your bread.

 

The recipe is found at Best Bread Recipes

Excellent Recipe forCaramelized Pear and Bread Pudding

Pears are wonderful this time of year, at least in North America where I live.  They make an excellent addition to this superb bread pudding recipe. The top of the pudding is a sweet caramelized sauce over lightly browned pears. The pudding part is a rich bread custard with rum soaked raisins. This dessert is an excellent choice for special company dinners.

 

Get the recipe at Best Bread Recipes

Recipe for Multi-Grain Quick Bread

Best Bread Recipes has an excellent recipe for multi-grain bread. This quick bread is made using breakfast cereals. It’s fast and easy to make, and the nutrition content is high. Need I say that its tasty as well?   

Recipe for Cinnamon Buns Yeast Muffins

This sweet sticky bun is a cross between a cinnamon bun and a muffin. It is made with yeast, baked in a muffin tin and has no rising period.  If you are looking for a fast and delicious sweet roll for breakfast or snacks, you might want to check this out.

 

The complete recipe is found at Best Bread Recipes

Excellent Recipe for Herb and Seed Quick Bread

This recipe for herb and seed quick bread is a hearty and healthy choice, whether for breakfast, lunch or a snack.  It’s made with buttermilk and an array of seeds and herbs. The recipe is here: http://www.best-bread-recipes.com/herb-and-seed-bread.html

Bread Machine Recipe for Prairie Flax Bread

This bread machine recipe for Prairie Flax Bread is healthy, good tasting, and fast to make.

 

You simply add the ingredients to the bread machine in whatever order your bread machine recommends (or its instruction sheet recommends!) then cook on the Whole Wheat Cycle or similar.

 

If you use organic ingredients, the bread will be even healthier than it is already.

Good Recipe for Lemon and Blueberry Loaf

It’s blueberry season in my neck of the woods. I can’t begin to tell you how much I love these versatile, nutritious, low calorie and delicious fruits. Some people call them nature’s candy.

 

Not only are blueberries wonderful eaten raw, they are wonderful when added to breads, cakes, loaves and muffins.

 

Here is a particularly tasty recipe for Lemon and Blueberry Loaf. 

 

This recipe is for a quick bread. You can probably have it sliced and on the table in an hour.

Good Recipe for Cheddar Quick Bread

This recipe for Cheddar Quick Bread is a fast and easy loaf to bake when you want something home made and don’t have time to fuss. It’s lovely when you use a sharp Cheddar cheese. Serve it as it is, or with butter, or even with a slice of your favourite cheese. 

Delicious Cinnamon Quick Bread Recipe

I have located a recipe for cinnamon quick bread that is so fast and easy, you won’t believe how good it is.  You simply toss all ingredients into an electric mixer, beat for three minutes and your batter is ready for the pan.  Toss on a simple topping and you’re good to go.

 

It couldn’t be much simpler than that, and as I said before, the end result is yummy.

 

Here is the link to the recipe: Cinnamon Quick Bread Recipe

 

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Black Bread Mixed in the Food Processor

This recipe for black bread is delicious, especially with seafood. For best results, it should be thinly sliced. You can do the mixing in the food processor, if you have one. That will cut down considerably on the work involved.  If you know how to raise bread in your microwave, you can reduce the preparation time by hours.  

 

The recipe contains a selection of healthy flours and is darkened with good quality cocoa and brown sugar.

 

The recipe is online at Black Bread Recipe

Great Recipe for Soft Pretzels

Who doesn’t love pretzels?  Well, I suppose there could be someone somewhere who doesn’t.  Everybody I know is a big fan of this yeast treat. The recipe I have today is a good one. The pretzels are soft, pre-boiled them baked, and made without fat. They also contain plenty of complex carbohydrates, making them a good healthy choice for your snack or breakfast.  Add a piece of fruit and cheese and you have a lovely make-and-take breakfast.

 

The link is this:  Recipe for Soft Pretzels

 

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Chocolate Kugelhuph for Easter Brunch?

How about a rich, chocolately sweet bread, good enough to call dessert, to serve at your Easter brunch? Or you could have it with afternoon tea.

Is it bread or cake?  You decide, but it does call for yeast. It also contains chocolate, pecans, and dried cherries or cranberries.

Kugelhuph, also known as gugelhuph, may have originated in Eastern Europe.

Chocoalte Kugelhuph is the best yet.

Excellent Recipe for Orange Flavored Hot Cross Buns

There is no doubt about it -- using a bread machine takes a lot of the work out of baking bread and rolls.

These bread machine hot cross buns are fairly fast and easy to make -- especially if you rise the dough in the microwave.

They are flavored with orange, for something a little different. However, if you prefer the traditional flavor, just replace the orange juice with water.

The recipe makes about ten hot cross buns but you can adapt it to make 18.

Recipe for Spicy Bread for the Bread Machine

This recipe for spicy bread for the bread machine is easy and fast to make.  it's a wonderful loaf to serve with chiles, bean soups, stews and other foods that lend themselves to a dipping bread.

The recipe is a bit on the spicy, hot side -- but its easy to modify if you prefer a milder taste. Simply cut back on the amount of spices used and you will have a wonderful, milder flavor.

Enjoy.

St. Patrick's Day Recipe for Buttermilk Soda Bread

St. Patrick's Day is approaching on March 17. This Buttermilk Soda Bread recipe is a good choice for your St. Paddy's Day celebrations.  If you want to be authentic, try serving it with smoked salmon, a favorite Irish delicacy.

If buying buttermilk is a challenge, try buying buttermilk powder from bulk bins and reconstitute it only when needed. The ratio is one part buttermilk powder to four parts water.

Recipe for Apple Thyme Quick Bread

February is apple month, at least in Canada.  This recipe for apple thyme quick bread is a great way to celebrate this delicious and good-for-you fruit.  Use a good cooking apple, heart-healthy olive oil and fresh thyme to make this excellent recipe.

It does make a relatively small loaf, however. You may want to double the recipe and make two.

Good Recipe for Cranberry Orange Muffins

Does anyone else love muffins as much as I do?  This recipe for cranberry orange muffins is made using whole wheat flour, so its healthy as well as delicious.

You do know the secret to making high, fluffy muffins, right?  Well, actually there are two secrets. The first is to use large muffins tins and fill them right to the top with muffin batter. This ensures the muffins will peak over the top in a lovely dome shape.

The second secret is to barely blend the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients together. Mix both well BEFORE combining, but after combining, be careful that you do not overmix.

Recipe for Chocolate Nut Bread

This recipe for chocolate nut bread is a quick bread or a loaf that is leavened with baking powder and baking soda. The recipe makes two medium sized loaves that are fragrant and yummy -- and topped with a mixture of drizzled chocolate and chopped nuts.

Who doesn't love a chocolate loaf?

Recipe for Cranberry Cornbread

Cranberry cornbread is a good choice during the Holiday season, or at Thanksgiving. But don't stop there. Cranberries are amazingly healthy fruit. Some consider them to be  a superfruit due to the nutrients and antioxidant properties they offer.  Since the recipe calls for cranberry sauce, you can get it year round -- either as canned and ready made, or as fresh or frozen cranberries that you can cook yourself.

Check out this delicious and healthy recipe for cranberry cornbread.

At this time of the year, when you may still be dealing with leftover turkey, this dish is a great accompaniment to a dish such as turkey enchiladas or something similar.