Cream Cheese Apple Bread

It's FRIDAY!!!! We're home, trying to get back into the swing of things. :D BUSY time ahead of us, for SURE!

Today's recipe is for Cream Cheese Apple bread, from Today's Creative Blog.

Let me just say that Mom put this one together for me. So I don't know if the cream cheese vanished into the dough, or what happened - but it doesn't look like the one on the blog.

It IS a YES, PLEASE, recipe however! I made this for a Stampin' Up! class, and everyone loved it. It's incredibly moist and flavorful.

I think I'll keep the recipe, and maybe double the cream cheese part. I mean, I love cream cheese, so it can't HURT... :D

OK, I'm outta here. :D Have a WONDERFUL weekend. Be blessed, my friend!

Honey Oat Quick Bread

Happy Wednesday! :) Two days in a row - HURRAY! :D

Today's recipe is Honey Oat Quick Bread from Cooking.com.

OK. I did NOTHING to this bread recipe except follow it. :D Just so you know!

It's OK. It's nothing to drool over; it's a basic bread, and would be good with a stew or soup in the fall, if you need another basic bread recipe. It's pretty, too. :) But as someone who loves bread and shouldn't eat it, I won't have a difficult time passing this one up. :D (And my mom liked it, but they're on a gluten-free diet, and ANY bread is - well, like manna to her. :D )

It's got a great texture to it, don't get me wrong. But it needs some jazzing up - and there are so many bread recipes out there to try, I'm not gonna spend any time on this one. :D But if you try it, let me know what YOU think!

Outta here! Busy, busy - and rehearsals start Sunday for ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA! But I WILL be here Friday - I'm going to go set it up now. :D

Have a wonderful day! Try something new, and BE BLESSED!!!

Pear Bread

Happy Wednesday! Are you having a good week?

My friend has lots of pears, and pneumonia. So I was gifted a big pail of pears. :D My sister asked that we bring some quick breads for the kids' breakfasts, so we decided to try pear bread!

This is a Taste of Home recipe. And it gets a MEH from me.

Now, don't get me wrong: as quick breads go, it's easy, makes two loaves, and has pretty common ingredients. But I have yet to find a pear bread recipe that tastes like pears. This one only tastes like pears when you bite into a piece of pear.

My dad liked it - I think its texture is more of a muffin than a bread. It will definitely do the job, and I've added even more fruit to the following batches, to give more pear to bite into. :) I'm sure it will be a hit with the lids! If I get gifted with pears again, I might try pureeing some pears to use in it, too, and see if that helps or changes the texture too much.

Let me know what you think - or if you have a pear quick bread recipe you like!

Have a wonderful day! Be BLESSED!!!!!