Green Tomato Bread

This recipe is surprisingly delicious and is a great way to use up some of those green tomatoes in your garden. It smells kind of like sugar cookies baking in the oven when you make it. Yummm!! This bread is very moist and sweet and sooo good! I've had it with breakfast, lunch, and with dinner with Country Crock spreaded on top. Did I say yummm??

Green Tomato Bread

3/4 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs, beaten
2 tsp. vanilla extract

3 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda

3 cups chopped green tomatoes
1 cup chopped walnuts (or other nuts)

Mix together wet ingredients in a large bowl. Mix together dry ingredients in a smaller bowl. Then add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix well. Add chopped tomatoes and nuts and mix well.

Divide evenly between two greased loaf pans and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Irish Soda Bread

This bread is so delicious and moist. I used to work at a popular grocery chain and I think it has so much better flavor than theirs and is WAY cheaper and easy to make yourself. Now you don't have to wait for St. Patrick's Day to have this bread, make it any time for a special treat with dinner or even with breakfast.

Irish Soda Bread

3-1/4 cups flour
1/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp. sugar, divided
1 tsp. baking Powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) COLD butter (If your butter isn't cold, the dough is way too soft and is hard to shape and work with.)
1-1/3 cups buttermilk (I use powdered buttermilk and water)
1/2 cup currants or raisins( I use raisins)
1 tbsp. caraway seeds (optional)

1) Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix flour, 1/3 cup of the sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add buttermilk, raisins or currants, and caraway seeds if using; mix just until moistened.

2) Place dough on floured surface; knead 10 times. Shape into round loaf, 2-1/2 inches thick. Place on greased baking sheet. Cut deep 1/2-inch "X" in top of dough. Sprinkle with remaining 1 Tbsp. sugar. (I like to use the turbinado, large crystal sugar for the topping.)


My dough was a little soft, so the "X" wasn't as noticeable.

3) Bake 1 hour or until golden brown. Cool completely on wire rack. Cut into wedges to serve.


I like to serve this with butter and a sprinkling of more turbinado sugar. Yumm!


This is the picture from the original recipe. It's a little better than mine.



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Classic Banana Bread

This banana bread is so moist and flavorful. It's the best banana bread I've ever tried. I think it's the yogurt that makes it taste so good. I always make a double batch and keep the extra loaf in the freezer for later. It makes a great house-warming gift.

Classic Banana Bread

2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 3 bananas)
1/3 cup plain yogurt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Cooking spray

1) Preheat oven to 350 deg. F.

2) Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.

3) Place sugar and butter in a large bowl, and beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 1 minute). Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add banana, yogurt, and vanilla; beat until blended. Add flour mixture; beat at low speed just until moist.

4) Spoon batter into an 8 1/2 X 4 1/2 in. loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 deg. F. for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack. Yield: 1 loaf



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