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“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” ― James Beard The bread shown in the above picture is not actually Cranberry Wildrice Loaf, my bad. Actually, it is my good! Earlier this fall, I started playing with Wildrice Cranberry bread and figured it was such a GREAT recipe, I’d like to see what it does with blueberries instead of the cranberries. I remembered to grab the camera and I’d been promising to blog about that recipe so here it is………this time with blueberries in place of the cranberries. They both work equally well, the cranberries have a little bit more of a tang than the blueberries but both serve a great purpose in our cooking! It all begins with the gathering of the ingredients. Most recipes call for bread flour but I’m not holding anyone to that. I’ve...

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits. E. Lockhart ” I’m not someone who lives and breathes soup. I think it definitely has its place in the culinary world but soup is rarely my top choice for a meal (unless we are talking chili of course). Fall days in Northern MN call for comfort food and on the particular day I made this soup, comfort was in high demand! I started out with the ultimate food. Bacon (because it really is a pork fat thing!). I took about six slices of bacon and cut and fried them all in my All Clad stock pot. .While the bacon was cooking, I chopped up a few pretty red, orange and yellow peppers. I’m not sure the exact difference between them and green peppers but I like their flavor and they add pretty color to almost all...

Wildrice Cranberry YUM YUM Bread

Fall calls ya’ll and ya’ll call for Tomato Soup