I've been abroad....

..... ahahha.... oh, yerh...... sure I have.

Just messing with your head. Of course I'm fibbing.  It was just summertime.  All I could manage was one blog and some golf and gardening and playing about.... we don't have long summers up here.... so we make the most of it.

The fall has actally been better than some of the summer months...it is beautiful, warm, dry and we are having lovely blue sky days.  If I hadn't had surgery on my wrist I would have got in a great last month of golf.  The courses are closed now for the winter months... somehow I have to keep in shape to be able to swing a club by spring... but that is easier said than done with a foot that is now bad.... sigh.. it's been a few bad weeks...

This is what happened to my baking prior to the wrist surgery...

Even with greasing and flouring the pans... disaster!

The only good thing was... it tasted very yummy...

Italian Plum Loaf.  You may remember it from last year.  Only enough plums for two loaves and this had to happen.  Darn it.

But... this is already in the stores...

Oh....sorry.....

Here's the English version....

And... here's the perfect bottom of a perfect Eggnog Loaf !!

Aren't glass loaf pans wonderful?!  I'm saving the others for bread.  They seem to do bread loaves just fine....

Bread doesn't stick... why on earth did the plum loaves do so poorly I wonder...

last of the 'nog

... and a pretty good "last" it was! It is called Christmas Bread...but really, it seems like a pound cake or loaf to me. Last week I found a whole shelf of eggnog on sale for only 99 cents for the two liter size. Over at Joe's blog... they were talking about eggnog cheesecake...and then off I went somewhere else....and they were talking about an eggnog loaf .... had to try at least one of 'em, didn't I ?!
hhmmmm.... where was that? ok....thinking...... it was eggnog, it was a cooking blog....it was .... darn it... where was that? HAH! I remember... it was Megan's blog. This is ridiculous, typing along trying to remember where I actually saw something, then having to open another window to try to find it, then trying to get back to where I am typing up my post.....sheeesh. Sometimes I make a boo boo and close out my blog entry...luckily it gets saved automatically most of the time.













It definitely has the great taste of 'nog if you like it.

I thought it a tiny bit drier than I would have liked it (easy to fix next time, more eggnog!!) ...but very tasty. If you make some holes with a skewer prior to drizzling on the glaze...it will even seep inside the loaf a bit....mmmmmm very yummy. Oh, I'm bad. I am pretty sure everybody is trying their darndest.. (just like moi )...to lose the few extra Christmas pounds we gained. so... .. highlight, copy, print, stick it in your holiday fare binder, and bake it next year!!





















Eggnog Christmas Bread with Buttered Rum Glaze
Makes: 1 loaf
2 eggs
1 cups sugar
1 cup eggnog
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (freshly grated)
1 1/2 teaspoons rum extract
1 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder

Buttered Rum Glaze
Make this after bread comes out of the oven:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/3 c unsalted butter
1 teaspoon rum extract
Melt butter and brown sugar together in a saucepan until smooth and sugar loses it’s graininess.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Butter a 9×5x3 bread pans.
Beat eggs, add sugar, eggnog, butter,
rum and vanilla until blended.
In a bowl mix together flour, baking powder and nutmeg. Add to the egg mixture and stir until just moistened. Don’t over stir.
Pour into greased pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick comes out
clean
Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pan.
Glaze with frosting while still warm.
Cool bread completely before slicing.