baking for Maw-maw's birthday

This weekend my Maw-maw turned 78! We went to visit her for lunch; I baked a lemon bundt cake (here's the recipe) and a dried cranberry and pecan bread with the recipe Ray's Mom gave to me. . . it's such a great recipe, it makes bread making simple and it's been fun experimenting with "add-ins." Next time I think I'll mix in a medley of seeds for a wheat/seed bread. 

crisp day

a loaf of rosemary wheat bread. 

This is the second loaf of bread I've made recently, and it is delicious. I learned the hard way that convection ovens take less time to cook than what I'm used to. . . the last one was a bit charred. . . but still edible!

It's been a nice weekend across the pond. Besides our usual work, we went out on Saturday to do a bit of shopping, and we really lucked out with a beautifully crisp day. After all of the rain last week, most of the leaves have dropped from the trees, and coat the sidewalks yellow and orangey red.