Banana walnut cranberry bread

Ingredients

All purpose flour - 4 cups
Banana - 2
Sugar - 1 cup

Baking powder - 4 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Walnut - 1/2 cup ( nicely chopped )

Cranberries - 1 cup

Butter - 1/4 cup ( Melted )

Vegetable oil - for greasing the loaf pan
Milk - 1 cup ( low fat milk )
Orange Juice - 3/4 cup

Preparation

1) Mix Flour , Sugar , Baking Powder and Salt , Set aside

2) Add butter , Mashed bananas , Milk and Orange juice and mix it well along with flour mixture

3) Add walnut and cranberries

4) Pour the mixture into the greased loaf pan.

5) Bake at 350° for 1 hour (  Insert a knife and check whether it comes out clean after 45 mins thereafter every 5 mins  )

Sending this to CELEBRATE SWEETS ' with 'SWEET BREADS/BUNS/CROISSANTS ' event

Also sending this to ABC Series - B for Banana event hosted by Ramya for the month for Oct 2011

 

Apple Rasberry Crumble

Ingredients

1) Apple -1 medium sized ( Washed ,Cut,Chopped into tiny pieces )

2) Rasberries - 15 nos ( I got fresh rasberries and freezed it )

3) Sugar ( white ) - 2 or 3 tsp

For Crumble

4) Oats - 1/2 cup

5) Maida - 1/2 cup ( but I added less , 1/4 cup would be sufficient )

6) Walnuts or almonds chopped ( used peanuts instead ,)

7) Brown sugar - 1/4 cup

8) Cinnamon - 1/4 teaspoon.

9) 1/2 stick butter

1 tablespoon butter for baking dish.

Baking dish - Well buttered

Vanilla Icecream ( I got fat free )

Preparation

1) Preheat the oven to 350-400 F

2) Mix Apples , Rasberries and Sugar in a bowl and transfer to baking dish

3) Add Oats , Maida, Brown Sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and mix well. Add butter and use your fingers to mix it thoroughly such that there is no lumps.

4) Sprinkle this evenly on the apple-rasberry mixture

5) Bake it for 35-40 mins till the crumble turn golden brown and the bubble comes.

6) Serve it with Vanilla Icecream.

I got this recipe from Cinnamon,Spice and Warm apple pie book by Ryland Peters and altered few ingredients. ( http://www.rylandpeters.com/ )

Cantaloupe / Musk melon Cocktail

Ingredients

1 medium sized musk melon

2 or  3  tsp Sugar

Orange,Pineapple , Banana juice ( I got this from Costco ) - 1 1/2 cup

Water - 1 1/2 cup

Cinnamon powder - little

Preparation

Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend it to fine consistency.

Refrigerate it

Before serving , sprinkle some cinnamon powder on top.

Note : Instead of Sugar , you can also substitute with Honey