2020: THE YEAR OF BANANA BREAD. Unofficial … or was it Official? … Food of the Pandemic. Rivaled only perhaps by our sourdough starters. Who knew there would be so much banana bread in this year? I think that I might have ten new recipes this year alone. And I couldn’t help but make one more loaf just to shut this year down. May there be lots of other recipe in our futures and thanks for being there this year. Tomorrow will be just another new day and we can make and bake and share something new and different.
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December 2020
Today’s Christmas Project Experiment (in advance of Christmas morning, in case it turned out to be a complete disaster) was this Spiced Cinnamon Cardamom Swirl Wreath…. essentially a whole lot of little cinnamon buns arranged ad then baked together in a wreath. You can pull it apart, taking a little or big swirl as you please. It’s absolutely delicious and came out pretty much as I expected (there is always that moment when you put it into the oven and the baking puts it out of your control, and you wonder if it will stay as pretty as it un-baked, but it did end up quite nice). Yay for experiments gone right!
I saw a photo of Clementine Jam the other day and just had to make it — and tis the season as all sorts of mandarins and other citrus fruit are in season — check out the color! It is simply fantastic and likely the brightest colored jam that I have ever seen. And it tastes good too. It is a little bitter, but that can often be the case with citrus jams and preserves, but it will be spectacular on toast. Oooooh, or on pancakes. Yummy and seasonal.
Long time followers of my website know that the other thing that I have a tendency to make around Christmas Time (in addition to the mountains of cookies) is candy, chocolates or fudge. Sometimes Caramels, sometimes Fudge, sometimes Truffles. So this year, I went with another couple of types of fudge: Coffee Toffee Crunch Fudge and Cookies+Cream Fudge. It’s a super-simply, absolutely foolproof fudge recipe that turns out great every time. And ready in a very short time frame. Try it!