Requiem for Buttermilk Bread

Gluten has been banished from my diet, but I cannot get this bread out of my mind. If there are seven stages of grief involved when a foodie gives up wheat (denial, bitterness, denial, bitterness, denial, bitterness, permanent irritation), then I’m probably at the denial/bitterness stage. I dream of this bread. The original recipe makes…

Carrot Cake

I’d rather call this Carrot Bread until Lent is over, if you know what I mean. It’s baked in a loaf pan, it has no frosting, and it’s full of fruit, nuts, and vegetables. It’s practically a baked salad. Okay, that last part’s a stretch, but if you get a hankering for a lushly textured…