There's sweets in the house.

Recipe 3 - Breads - Strawberry-Nut Bread

The best part of this project is that I usually don't have sweets in the house - sweet breads or otherwise - so it is quite unusual to have Strawberry-Nut Bread around. I'm particularly looking forward to the cakes and other treats in the Desserts chapter. Yum smack.

The Strawberry-Nut Bread did not disappoint. I did make a substitution that is noteworthy. The recipe calls for 1.25 cups vegetable oil and I just couldn't bring myself to use that much oil. I am not under any delusion that the recipes in this book are low fat but I wouldn't be able to actually consume any of the bread knowing that there was that much oil. A quick and easy substitution that lowers the fat but still preserves the moistness is to substitute applesauce for the oil. I, of course, accidentally picked up sweetened apple sauce and then forgot to reduce the amount of sugar that I added. Woops. It actually was fortuitous forgetfulness, though, because it worked out to have the appropriate level of sweetness.

J and I will actually head down to Pike Place Market this weekend for some ingredient shopping and hunting around for the stores and restaurants that we've cooked from so far. On the list are the Biringer Farm Store (existed as of 1992), LoPriore Bros. Pasta Bar & Eatery, and more!