Category Archives: Breads

Banana Bread

Posted on by

Well, the weather outside is frightful….but the fire is so delightful….now that I have banana bread…let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Today was a major snow day here in central Missouri.

A major snow day means that I have the day off…..wooohooo, school is not in session!

I have a surprise to tell you too…..school is not in session tomorrow either. Hot digigity dog!!!

There is good and bad about having a snow day. The good is that I can stay home, watch it snow,  make banana bread and eat banana bread. The bad, is that I can stay home, watch it snow, make banana bread and eat the whole loaf of banana bread.

Which means I have to pay the treadmill a visit.

This banana bread is worth it.

I got this recipe from my friend Roberta. I just happen to go over to her house when she had finished baking some. Of course, I had to ask for a slice, well maybe two slices. Then I had to ask for the recipe.

This is a much loved recipe, can you tell?

Also, this recipe does not have a bunch of doodads.

You know what doodads are right?

Doodads, are all those extra ingredients, like chocolate chips, nuts, cinnamon chips and maybe a crumb topping. All of these doodads are great. But, when you just want to make a good, basic, moist and bananalicious banana bread, this recipe delivers.

I am sure that you have all the ingredients in your kitchen to make your own banana bread right now.

You can be like me,  stay home from work, make banana bread and eat banana bread.

The only thing you might be missing is the 10 inches of snow outside!

Tomorrow, I might have to make friends with the snow shovel.

Does that mean I can eat another piece of banana bread today?

I need to peel out right now, and head to the kitchen.

Enjoy!

Becky

Here is your step by step directions.

This is all you need to make this bread. Amazing right?

    

Take three ripe bananas and mash them up. I just use a mixer to mash them.

    

     

Add the oil, eggs and sugar. Mix together.

    

    

In a separate bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir together.

    

Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and gently stir together.

    

Do not over mix the batter or will become tough. When mixed pour into a prepared baking pan lined with parchment paper.

    

Place in the oven and bake at 325 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes. Or until toothpick comes out clean when put in the middle. Let bread cool in the baking pan for about 5 to 10 minutes. Run a knife around the outside edge and remove bread to cool completely.

    

Cool and slice with a serrated knife. Or if you are really dying to try a piece, just break one off. Tell everyone it got stuck in the pan and that is why that piece broke off. I have never done that. Well, I did not do that today at least.

There is one doodad that I love to eat with banana bread……Butter. : )

Here is the recipe:

Banana Bread

Given to me from Roberta

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Ingredient:

3/4 cup sugar (sometimes if I feel like the bananas are not sweet enough I use 1 cup of sugar)

1/2 cup oil

2 eggs

3  ripe bananas, mashed

In a large bowl, mix the above ingredients together.

1 3/4 cups flour

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon slat

In a smaller separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients together.

Add the dry ingredients to the banana mixture and gentle stir together. Do not over mix as it will make your batter tough.

Pour the batter into a prepared baking pan lined with parchment paper.

Bake in the preheated 325 degree oven and bake until center is done by taking a tooth pick and sticking it in the middle to see if comes out clean. Around 40 minutes.

You will go bananas over this recipe.

Enjoy Becky

Garlic Cheddar Biscuits

Posted on by

Have you ever gone to Red Lobster just so you could eat all those delicious, warm and buttery cheddar biscuits?

You don’t want to say?

OK, I will go first.

YES, I have.

Have you ever asked for more biscuts, just about the  time you are about to leave, so you can put them in your to go box?

REALLY, you don’t want to say….again?

OK, I will admit I have.

There, does that make it better? : D

Anywho, I have been making several versions of the recipe for a few years now. Most of them call for baking mix and milk and of course butter. Those recipes were fine, but I wanted something a little more…..well….buttery.

I follow this blog called Chickens in the Road. She posted her version of THE RECIPE.

It looked more like what I wanted mine to look like.

So I made them.

So I ate them.

So my kids ate them.

So my kids wanted me to make them again.

So I did.

If you don’t want to go to Red Lobster and walk out with those biscuits hiding in your coat, or your purse, or a diaper bag. (come on, I know you have done it). Try this recipe.

Here is what you will need.

It is ok to throw your scales out the window for a few days after you make these biscuits.

    

In a bowl, add your flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar, salt and Old Bay Seasoning. If you do not have Old Bay Seasoning you can substitute cayenne pepper. Stir the dry ingredients together. Add the butter and with a pasty cutter, cut the butter in.

    

Add the cheddar cheese, sour cream and the milk. Stir together until it is mix together, but do not over mix.

    

Scoop out big spoonfuls of the dough and place it into a 9 x 13 pan. In another bowl combine, melted butter, garlic powder, parsley and a dash of salt. Brush half the butter mixture on top of the biscuits.

    

Bake in a 450 degree oven for around 25 minutes. When they come out of the oven, brush the rest of the garlic butter over the biscuits.

Don’t you just want to take a fork and grab one.

These are super easy to make!

It is the closest version I have tried to the Red Lobster biscuits.

These are perfect with soup or with a meal or with a snack or with a glass of milk or with a…….gee I got to stop.

Try these and let me know what you think?

Enjoy Mateys,

Becky

Here is the recipe:

Cheddar Garlic Biscuits

Adapted from Chickens in the Road blog

Ingredients for the biscuits:

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

2 teaspoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/4 taspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning (you can substitute cayenne pepper)

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 cup salted butter softened

1 1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese

1/2 cup sour cream

1 1/4 cup milk

Ingredients for the topping:

6 tablespoons salted butter, melted

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon parsley

dash of salt

Directions:

Place flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar, salt, garlic powder and old bay seasoning in a bowl and combine. With a pastry cutter, cut in the butter. Stir in the cheese then add the sour cream and the milk. Stir.

Scoop out large spoonfuls of dough and place them on a greased 9 x 13 pan casserole pan.

For the topping: Melt the butter and stir in the garlic powder, parsley, and a dash of slat. Spoon or brush half the topping over the unbaked biscuits. bake at 450 degrees for around 25 minutes.

When the biscuits are baked, brush the rest of the butter topping over the warm biscuits.

It makes approximately 20 biscuits.

Poppy Seed Bread

Posted on by

I made candy yesterday.

Today is baking day.

This is my favorite poppy seed bread recipe. It comes from a old local cookbook that was published in way back in 1973.

Pretty Old uh?

Sometimes, oldies are goodies.

A nice lady named Judy Wollard submitted this recipe. I do not know who Judy is, or if she is still alive, but she must be nice if she shared her recipe.  The cookbook belonged to my ex Mother In Law, Jackie. She belonged to the American Business Women’s Association. The ABWA compiled a cookbook of favorite recipes and sold them to raise money. You could buy a copy for $2.00 each. I wonder how much money they made.

Jackie loved a good recipe. She left behind recipes she typed up on index cards, recipes she had cut of newspapers, and recipes she wrote down from her friends.

She had beautiful handwriting.

My children still ask for me to make some of her recipes.

Funny how a recipe can last longer that you can.

I love her recipes.

My family does too. When I asked them what they wanted on their goodie tray, they all said poppy seed bread.

This poppy seed bread is sweet and has a nice aroma of almond and butter with a dash of vanilla. While it is hot from the oven you pour on a orange juice and sugar glaze for an extra measure of moistness. Sounds perfect right?

It is.

Thank you Judy for sharing such a delicious recipe for my holiday goodie trays.

Thank you Jackie, for leaving me your cookbook.

Here is how you can make this holiday bread in your kitchen.

Becky

You will need, eggs, vanilla, baking powder, almond flavoring, butter flavoring, poppy seeds, sugar, salt, oil milk, flour and orange juice.

         

In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, salt, baking powder and poppy seeds. Next add the sugar. Mix all the dry ingredients together.

         

Add the oil, milk and butter and almond flavoring.

         

Add the vanilla and eggs. (that is baby college girl cracking the eggs) and mix together.

Evenly pour batter in small loaf pans lined with parchment paper. Or you can do two regular size loaf pans also.

Bake until when you insert a cake tester in the bread and it comes out clean. This bread is not quite done.

While the bread is baking, heat the orange juice, sugar, vanilla, and almond and butter flavoring.

When the bread comes out of the oven, pour warm glaze over each loaf. If you want to, you can take a skewer and poke holes in the bread to allow the glaze to enter the bread easier.

Take a knife and run around each loaf of bread to loosen from the sides of the pan. Take the bread out and cool on a cooling rack.

This is an oldie but goodie recipe.

Why change perfection?

Enjoy!

Becky

Poppy Seed Bread

Ingredients:

3 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

2 1/4 cups sugar

1 1/2 tablespoon poppy seed

1 1/2 cup milk

1 1/8 cup oil

3 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring

1 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring

Glaze:

1/2 cup orange juice

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring

1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring

Heat up glaze ingredients in a small sauce pan until the sugar is dissolved. When the bread is still warm from the oven, pour glaze over each loaf.

Directions for the bread:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

In a large bowl mix together flour, salt, baking powder, sugar and poppy seeds. Add oil, milk, eggs and almond, vanilla, and butter flavoring.

Mix the dry and wet ingredients together until all the dry ingredients are moisten.

Pour batter equally into 2 regular size loaf pans or 5 small loaf pans.

If you are baking regualr size loaves, bake for 30 to 40 minuts. If you are baking smaller size loaves, bake until the center comes out clean when tested with a tooth pick or cake tester, aprox. 20 to 25 minutes.

 

Strawberry Quick Bread

Posted on by

I heard a new food term at school this week.

It was the, “must goes.”

Must Goes?

What the heck is a must go??? Funny you asked, because I did too. A young man in my class asked me if I ever had heard of the term, ” Must Goes?”

NO….

Well, must goes, are all the left over food in your fridge that you need to eat, cook it something or throw out. You know…they Must Go or be thrown away.

I had some fresh strawberries in the fridge that had, MUST GO, all over them.

Life is like a bowl of strawberries, but sometimes it puts you in a jam. (my feeble attempt at humor)

Take some, must go strawberries and an old cookbook, put them together and you get a recipe for strawberry bread.

This is a simple recipe to follow and it really taste divine. Perfect on a rainy weekend morning. My kids grabbed a warm piece right after I said,” berry dig in!” In a posting from last week, my son tried some corn cob jelly. When he got his slice of strawberry bread he told me he would rather not try the jam again and just use butter. UMP…. : ) no need for me to worry about everyone eating up my corn cob jelly!

Well anyway back to the bread.

First thing you need to do is wash, stem and slice your strawberries.

                   

My strawberries were really not that sweet. So, I  sprinkled them with sugar and let them drain while I got the pans ready. This is how much juice drained off. I did not want the extra moisture to go into the bread. I took the drained strawberries and mashed them with a fork into smaller pieces.

                    

Next thing I did was get my pans ready. I always lightly spray my pans with vegetable oil and line the bottom with parchment paper. Normal bakers would probably do this first….oh well…. I never said I was normal….

In a mixing bowl add the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and mix together.

                   

Crack four eggs into a bowl and beat lightly. Next, measure out one cup of oil.

                   

Add in the beaten eggs, the vegetable oil and lastly the smashed strawberries.

Mix it all together, being careful not to overbeat. If you mix too much it makes the bread tough.

Pour bread evenly into two baking pans. It took about 3 cups of batter for each loaf of bread.

Put bread in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake for 45 to 55 minutes. This is a picture of my bread after about 20 minutes in the oven.

In about 50 minutes, my bread looked like this. Don’t worry about the cracks!

    

Here is the first loaf sliced up without a glaze.                    Here is the second loaf with a key lime glaze drizzled on top.

Here is the mess I made on the counter. OOPS

Now I “MUST GO” eat some stawberry bread!

Enjoy,

Becky

Strawberry Quick Bread

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups sliced and smashed strawberries

3 1/3 cup flour

2 cups of sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teasoon vanilla (I accidentally forgot to add)

1 cup vegetable oil

4 beaten eggs

1 1/2 cup chopped pecans, optional (my son hate nuts, no option for me)

Directions:

Wash, stem, slice and drain strawberries. After they have drained for about 20 minutes, smash with a fork

In a large mixing bowl, mix together flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Pour in the beaten eggs, oil, vanilla and smashed strawberries. Mix together, being careful not to over mix.

Pour batter into two prepared bread pans and bake in an 350 degree oven for 45 to 55 minutes.

I made a little bit of key lime glaze to pour on top for fun. I had some left over juice and I just added powdered sugar to it to get the right consistency. Drizzle glaze over warm bread.

 

Baking Powder Biscuits

Posted on by

At the Ladies Day at church, I won some jelly. Not just any jelly. I won corn cob jelly. Well, it was the jelly that no one else wanted at my table. Maybe it was the yellow color tinged with green. Or, that it was made from left over corn cobs.

Sounds yummy right?

I have never tried corn cob jelly and have hardly seen it before. I felt like I had stepped back in time when I seen the name. I wanted it!

When you have a special jelly, made by special ladies, you need to make something special to put it on. It was time to make some home made baking powder biscuits.

This biscuit recipe is my “go to” biscuit recipe. It works when, I am camping, on vacation and it works every time in my kitchen when I want to make my family a special breakfast. Today, they do not know that they will be putting corn cob jelly on their biscuits. I made bacon to bribe them with, eggs too, and lets not forget to mention gravy. I had this in the bag!

First thing you need to do is measure the flour and put it in a medium size bowl.

Next, add in the baking powder, salt and sugar. Stir to combine.

         

Next measure the shortening and take a pastry cutter and cut the shortening into small pea size pieces.

Did you know that each one of these pieces of shortening make a flake?

         

Now, add the milk. Stir, until all the flour is moisten. Take the dough and put it on a floured surface. I just use my kitchen counter.

         

Knead the dough about 20 times. Roll the dough to about 1 inch thick.

         

Cut out the dough with a biscuit cutter. I found this old very large biscuit cutter. It was perfect for cutting out this monster biscuits.

Place the biscuits on a cookie sheet The two misshapen biscuits are made from the left over dough. I call these my “taste tester” biscuits.

         

Place biscuits in the oven and bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees or until they are a golden brown. I always brush melted butter on the top. Can you see my reflection?

Now, it was time to try the corn cob jelly.

Does anyone want some butter to go with their CORN cob jelly?

My girls said no, and asked to pass them the grape jelly. My son tried it and said it tasted better before it was on his biscuit.

City kids!!!

I went ahead and let them eat some bacon and eggs and even some gravy anyway.

I really liked it! I don’t have to share it now, either.

It is fun to try something new, even if it’s yellow and made out of left overs : )!

Enjoy!

Becky

Baking Powder Biscuit Recipe

Ingredients

I doubled the recipe when I made these

2 cups of flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

1/2 cup shortening

3/4 cup milk

Directions:

Mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Add shortening. With a pastry cutter, cut the shortening into small pieces.

Add milk and stir until all the flour mixture is moisten. Be careful to not over stir.

Put dough onto floured surface and knead about 20 times.

Roll dough out to about 1 inch thick. Using a biscuit cutter (my grandma used a cup) cut the biscuts.

Place them, barely touching each other, onto a cookie sheet.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...