Blueberry Quick Bread

This is something that LauraSiobhan brought to the house for baking goodness. She used egg substitute to make it Laura friendly, but real eggs would do nicely as well. Laura left out the walnuts and I didn't miss them in the least. The recipe yields one Bundt pan or two 9" x 5" loaves.

5 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 tbs baking powder 1 tsp salt 3/4 cup butter or margarine 1 1/2 cups walnuts, chopped 4 eggs 2 cups milk 2 tsp vanilla extract 3 cups fresh or frozen blueberries (one 16 oz. bag of frozen blueberries works well - do not thaw)

Preheat overn to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 10-inch Bundt pan.

In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. With pastry blender or 2 knives used scissors fashion, cut in butter or margarine until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in chopped walnuts. In small bowl, beat eggs slightly; beat in milk and vanilla until wel mixed; stir into flour mixture just until flour is moistened. Gently stir in blueberries; spoon batter evenly into Bundt pan.

Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and finish cooling on wire rack.

280 calories per serving (24 servings in entire recipe)

Nice Pants

I am so pleased with my new pants. All this week, I've been wearing pants that were in the bottom of my bureau to see if I liked any of them or if they were just in there waiting for me to shrink two inches. Every night I've come home and pulled the offending pants off and dump them into the "get out of my house" pile to donate.

This morning I looked at my other pants in the bureau waiting for me to test them out and couldn't go one more day with my bare ankles hanging out for all the world to see while all these new clothes went untouched. So I wore my new stretch twill jeans in a size 14 tall (so many 14 talls in my new clothing selections) and I've been in Pants Heaven all day!

If anything they're a smidge too long. We'll see if they shrink in the wash. Would you believe this is with my legs crossed?! No ankles to be seen here!

Now just to start wearing those long-sleeved shirts that cover my wrists. I may be unbearable at that point.

Make these clothes go away!

Anybody have need for size 14 pants/jeans or size large long sleeve shirts? I've got a ton that are not making the cut this year. If you're under 6 feet tall, you'll be very happy with them, but the jeans I have on now look ridiculous on me because you can see not only my ankles but a good three inches up my calves when I sit down. The shirt sleeves are the same deal in that they're not quite long enough so they drive me crazy. They've got to go. I'll put them on FreeCycle in a few days if no one is interested, but figured I'd give my peeps first dibs.