Apple Walnut Bread with Brown Sugar Glaze
In my last post I shared with you about my Mom, and the incredible grief I was experiencing following her passing. I’m still struggling and I expect I will be for a while. I’ve not wanted to bring my sadness to this place I love and have enjoyed so deeply for the past several years, and for that reason I have not been posting. I have been baking some, it’s comforting in a way. But words are not coming easily for me. I don’t want to pretend I am feeling happier and more upbeat than I am. For a time , what feels right is to begin sharing recipes again, but I will be keeping my posts short on words. Quiet feels better and more real.
Thank you to everyone who shared such kind comments following the loss of my Mom. Your comments comforted me greatly. Continue reading
My Mom is gone, and I am struggling to make sense of it. Grief is blinding, crushingly blinding. 
I know, I promised you the recipe for these lovely little hand pies a very long time ago. My apologies! I got distracted, and busy, and wrapped up into many other things that kept me from posting. Did I mention that my computer went on the fritz? Yes, that happened too. Fortunately, I’m getting the recipe to you in plenty of time to make these little cuties for your upcoming Red, White, and Blue holiday celebrations. 
We are smack dab in the middle of Cherry season and I am jumping up and down with joy. I cannot get enough of those meaty, juicy, little red orbs of deliciousness. As I was wrist deep in red stains from pitting the cherries for this recipe, the thought occurred to me that if cherries were in season year-round, I would have a red nose. Yep, I would be walking around looking like I was related to Rudolph. You know how babies develop an orange nose when first introduced to carrots? To test for allergic reaction when transitioning a baby to solid food, you feed them one food at a time for a number of days. When testing carrots, little ones often ‘grow’ an orange nose. It’s the beta-carotene in the carrots that turns their little noses orange. Similarly, it’s the particular flavonoids found in cherries that make them red. Anyway…my point to all this is to say, if I could eat cherries year-round, I would most certainly have a red nose. I just can’t get enough of them. 
I’m a huge fan of muffins, and an even bigger fan of blueberries. Based on those two facts, you would think I was also a fan of blueberry muffins. Not so! I have rarely met a blueberry muffin that was worth my time. Here’s why. Nine times out of ten, they usually amount to little more than an unfrosted yellow cupcake with blueberries scattered throughout. No thank you!