Have you ever given up something you love because of someONE you love more? Some people quit smoking, drinking or gambling. Others become a slightly less obsessed sports fan because the knucklehead they are married to just doesn’t understand and can’t get on board. Not that I would know anything about that last one. My experience with sacrifice involves salmon. Delicious, flaky perfectly rich salmon. Oh how I love it. I could eat it just about every day and never grow tired of it. Honestly, it is my most favorite dinner.
Lemon Monkey Bread
Every monkey bread recipe I’ve ever seen is made with butter and brown sugar resulting in a caramel covered pull apart bread. This recipe intrigued me because of its main ingredient. Lemon. Lemon? Yes indeed. It is a bright fresh citrus bread drizzled with butter, lemony sugar and a sweet glaze. Lemon is so vibrant and clean. With the beautiful powdery snow around here lately, this monkey bread seemed a perfect complement to the fresh white landscape. This bread looks and tastes like you slaved away making it, in fact, it is so quick and easy you won’t believe it. But absolutely delicious.
This monkey bread is sweet and tart, moist and warm, crusty and soft all together. Ooooh it is so good.
Double Glazed Pumpkin Scones
At MOPS on Thursday, my friend Bethany brought awesome pumpkin scones. They got me in the mood to bake some myself. Now, my normal scones are amazing and I love the recipe. I’ve just never been super comfortable trying to alter it to a pumpkin scone recipe because there are already so many wet ingredients in it – the primary one being sour cream – which can’t be substituted out because of the unique reaction it has with the baking soda. Once I’d tossed the idea of altering my own recipe, I got a lot more comfortable with just finding the most delicious pumpkin scone recipe I could. This is it. The double glaze sold me right away. I only altered the recipe slightly, using cream instead of the original half-and-half called for (and that’s just because I had one and not the other). The scones themselves are not very sweet at all – I left a couple unglazed for my sweets-hating hubby. They are also quite lightly spiced. I’ll probably add some allspice and or pumpkin pie spice to the next batch. Which, I’ll be making very soon I’m sure. They are moist, light and delicious. Just like a scone should be. [Read more…]