Festive Breads

Hm... that looks delicious! I'd love to have the actual recipe, but it sounds like that one could be protected under copyright laws. I just got back from the morning trip to the grocery store. They had a nice assortment of produce in the reduced section today, and I got a big bag of zucchini for under $1. I'm going to use it to make zucchini bread either today or tomorrow. The recipe is one of the few I've gotten from my mother that I still make, so it's probably the closest thing to a traditional Christmas bread we have. She also had a banana bread recipe that she made every year, but I use one I found online these days. I usually make muffins instead of loaves simply because the kids prefer them. The recipe calls for sliced bananas, but I like it better when they're mashed.

I have never actually baked bread myself - the photo looks delicious

That's such a perfect looking bread! Do you bake it in the oven? I used to bake breads during my college years, but haven't lately - perhaps I should do that! Oh, I keep forgetting to mention to you that I did do those apple roses that you posted a while back - it was incredibly easy and they came out so nice! It was a test run and the family loved them . . . so maybe I'll do some to take to family for gatherings!

I love homemade bread. So I am sure that I would love this bread. I will have to try it.

We experiment making different breads throughout the year. When I make a holiday meal I have enough to worry about w/o making bread. Now that dill bread sounds good!

My aunt makes cranberry bread for everyone as a gift for Christmas.

Is dill bread suitable for making Christmas pudding sandwiches with?

Your bread looks delicious! No, I don´t think that I cook any special food for Christmas and I have never done it. When everyone came to my house for Christmas, I usually made a huge piece of roast beef and a roast chicken for the kids if they did not like meat. Our attention was centered on the Christmas tree and the presents.

I have to enlarge the picture of your baked bread and it made me imagine myself eating it with the smoked salmon and sour cream . Just looking at it made me drool how much more imagining it that way .

Yummmm, that sounds so delicious. Now I am so hungry.

MY mother made the best home Italian Bread.Nothing fancy but good eating. A new Icon there@anna?

I love to make bread and will be doing it next week before the kids come home. I love Dill bread, I will look for a recipe.

It looks good. If I bake bread, it's regular bread. I don't do specialty breads.

I have never baked bread, but I so do want to try. After Christmas I am going to give it a go.

Sounds tasty . I had to make a loaf of regular bread today as we were out of the store-bought sliced bread. It's so good, I would have fresh bread everyday, but they eat so much of it that I could never keep up.

Ah! That looks yummy. Making breads on normal occasions is great, making them on some festive days will make us to feel double great. As a beginner to cooking & baking, I exercise extra caution during festivals, as that will set our mood for the entire day. I need a parcel of this, please! :D Hope you enjoyed baking and hope you have a enjoyable festival & holidays. Merry Christmas! :-)

I love the smell of dill and chives in my baking. I need to check out a nice recipe for baking this kind of bread.

I have rolls I make for all the holidays, I hope to have some time soon to make some stuff.

that sounds lovely.... not just the bread ... but the salmon and sour cream too... I'm a big bread fan and like all the different varieties....

My grandmother would always make pumpkin bread. I am going to try to make it this yeear. I start my candy making and baking nest week.