HCB: Many-Splendored Quick Bread

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See the title up there?

The key word is “quick”.

This bread is super quick, as in get everything ready and then, boom, before you know it it’s in the oven and driving you crazy with heavenly smells.

At least that is what happen when I decided to make it this past Friday.

Yep, you read it right, this past FRIDAY.  As in, after a long day at work, I got to baking.  Can you tell I had a hard week?

Because I totally did.

Very hard week, in total need of full therapeutic intervention.

So I got home and knew that if I did not turn on the oven and got busy, I was going to have a meltdown.

Baking, my anti-drug.

And this was the perfect prescription.

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Bruschetta with Fig spread, Gruyere topped with Prosciutto and Spinach

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I had a rough week this pass week. 

I’m so, but SO glad that it’s finally over (or at least in 3 more hours).

Then it will be a pack action weekend in my kitchen.  I’m testing recipes, coming up with yummy stuff that involved expensive ingredients and lots of lost of taste test.

Who said that recipe development is fun?

Oh, yeah – I think I did.

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TWD: Oatmeal Breakfast Bread

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I just cannot seem to get away from baking with fruit this month.  After baking chocolate all weekend long, I’m back into fruit land once more, compliments of Natalie from Oven Love who gave us the Oatmeal Breakfast Bread as our Tuesday with Dorie week’s choice.

Oatmeal is not fruit, you may say… well yeah, but don’t let the name fool you.  It has oats and a combination of spices and any dried fruit of your choice. And technically, I’m on the fence if calling it “Bread” would be appropriate, since it did not involve using yeast or kneading or even a rolling pin!

But at the end it did not matter, Tom was once more in high heaven, because not only did it have fruit, but OATS!

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