good morning. have some quickbreads.

This is my second attempt at a blog.  Blog number one was called a little bowl of yum.  I posted twice before loosing the interest or motivation or something.  I'm not sure why.  I have been blaming the fact that I have barly written a word in years on the fact that I was working early hours at a bakery and my most productive hours have always been in the morning. Now that I am working nights.  I can't really use that excuse anymore.

So this is my attempt number two.  I will write.  I will write about the food I cook and the things I knit and the quilts I sew.  I may write about some other things along the way.  Deep breath.  Jumping in.

This morning I am doing my Friday baking for my mother in laws lab meeting.  I started doing this about a year ago as a way to test recipes without ending up with a whole cake for me and my husband to eat.  Also so they didn't have to eat Safeway cookies and muffins anymore.  Today I am playing around with replacing butter in Quickbreads in preparation for a class I am teaching on the 17th, Intro to Baking Substitutions.  Last week I made a pound cake with yogurt instead of butter (kinda dense, chewy, but ok flavor.  It would have been better if it was a sponge cake I think) and banana instead of butter in a quickbread, which was surprisingly good.  It was a little but like cornbread in texture, and just a little banana flavor.  Next time I think I will increase the banana for more moisture and flavor.

Today I made two more, same recipe as the banana.  In one I subbed applesauce, and in the other avocado.  I know.  Weird.  I almost didn't do that one.  But the point of all this is to try out new things  so try I did.  It's not bad.  A little more dense and moist the usual but not as dense as I expected.  I topped it with a lime glaze.  The applesauce cake also has some shredded carrots.  It's still in the oven.  Mmmmm the smell of carrot cake in the morning.