Posts tagged: Easy baking recipes

Nutmeg is picky about her bananas. The fruit has to be perfect, not too green and certainly not a second too ripe. However, when it comes to banana bread, she has nothing but love for this sweet treat.
Most people have a banana loaf variation that they have perfected over the years, or one handed down from a relative. When this recipe landed on Nutmeg’s laptop from cyberspace, she could not resist trying it. A combination of lemons, olive oil, and bananas adapted from 101 Cookbooks, what is not to love?

Print Lemon Olive Oil Banana Bread Recipe type: Quick Breads Prep time:  10 mins Cook time:  50 mins Total time:  1 hour Serves: 1 Loaf   Like most sweet loafs this one is very easy to make. The use of olive oil and lemon make it a bit more contemporary than the one…

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Does the thought of Christmas baking put you squarely in one of these categories?

You start collecting holiday recipes in June, and dream of red and green sprinkles in July.
You would rather clean out your basement than attend a Christmas bake exchange.
You have a local “go-to” bakery for their qualified help.

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Kamla McGonigal still has her notes from ten years ago when she first envisioned a uniquely Albertan dessert, one that visitors would want to take home and share with others. Her desire was to create a specialty food item like smoked salmon (BC) and maple syrup (Quebec & Ontario) that one immediately associated with the region.
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Alberta Whisky Cake, Canadian Dessert, Canadian Food, Easy baking recipes, Travel Alberta

Close your eyes.
Is there a particular aroma or flavour that instantly evokes Christmas in your mind?
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Cloves
Cinnamon
Mulled wine
Rum eggnog
Smoky log fires
Fresh Pine bows
Warm chestnuts
Buttery shortbread
Striped candy canes
Oven Roasted turkey
Warm cranberry sauce
Fresh baked gingerbread
What
About
Florida
Citrus?

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American girl meets boy from Brittany, France – add four ingredients and a company is born!

The Breton Gourmet
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Easy baking recipes, Food from Brittany, French Food, The Breton Gourmet, Travel to France

Happy Valentines Day!!

Pucker-up!
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Easy baking recipes, healthy snack bar recipes, Lemon and Orange Festival in Menton, Recipes with Citrus

Hot Sauce (Nutmeg’s Mum) loves bananas, she grew up in the West Indies on an island that produces bananas for export, so it was best to love them…
Bananas are considered a super-food:

Potassium-rich; studies show foods with high levels of potassium can reduce the risk of stroke by as much as 40%
High levels of the antioxidant phenolic compounds work to detoxify cancer-causing agents
Although not specifically high in calcium can help in the absorption of calcium
They reduce stomach acidity and in some cases may even reduce nausea (more…)

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