Thanks to a plethora of very ripe bananas and a bag full of fresh cranberries, I whipped up an original recipe this week which turned out delightful! Banana Cranberry Bread with Cranberry Cream Cheese Frosting.
I took a general banana bread recipe and threw in 2 cups of fresh cranberries. Then I took a couple of cups of cranberries, mixed in some sugar and some grated up a couple of kumquats for that unmistakable orange sensation. This mixture was baked for 10, maybe 20 minutes; until the cranberries looked cooked. After it cooled, these were added to the cream cheese frosting mix (which ultimately needed more powdered sugar; it was a bit thin). The remained lined up on top, as you see. The frosting was over the top delicious!!
We finally got a day and enough snow to go riding on Sunday. Mike and I went up into the country we elk hunt. Seeing the landscape and trails in winter wonder was really great! The machines worked well. This picture of Mike is at the top of the ridge. We were contemplating the trail below, knowing how it looks in the fall and wondering if we could make it down the tight turns, the narrow trail, the heavily wooded timber. We did, but it took some real riding!! Great day!!
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