Thursday, October 21, 2010

Pumpkin Bread

I made this pumpkin bread using a recipe I found at 'My Journey to Mindfulness'. It's like a spice bun, really delicious and simple to make.

Then because I had extra cranberries, I followed the recipe on the bag and made my own cranberry sauce for the first time instead of buying it out of a can. Do you know how easy it is?

3 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
1 cup sugar
1 cup water

Rinse cranberries
In a saucepan, mix sugar and water
Boil for 5 mins
Add cranberries and boil gently until skins pop (about 5 mins)
Remove from heat. Serve warm or refrigerate. Makes about 2 1/2 cups

And I realized why I love cranberry sauce to begin with...all that sugar!

I still had some leftover cranberries so I froze them to make smoothies at some point.

5 comments:

Kay said...

I love simple. This is just in time for Thanksgiving planning for those of us in the U.S.

Kathy G said...

I made that same cranberry sauce last year! I agree it was simple and SO MUCH better than the canned variety.

Anonymous said...

This sounds so YUMMY! And I like the idea of freezing the cranberries for smoothies.

Joanna Jenkins said...

Homemade cranberry sauce-- Yum!

Cranberries are a fave of mine. I'm always looking for recipes to use them and I stock up on bags of them this time of year.

Thanks for sharing, jj

TBM said...

Mmm, this bread recipe and your pie recipe make me want to bake something! Thanks for sharing :-)