Cranberry Orange Nut Loaf

ingredients: 

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 3/4 cup unbleached white flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 cup light vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
• zest and juice of 1 small or 1/2 large orange
• 1/4 cup soy or rice beverage (plain or vanilla)
• 1 cup whole cranberries
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup walnuts (you decide the amount)

method:

Preheat oven to 350.

Line the bottom of a loaf pan with parchment paper and oil the sides (I use Earth Balance).

Thaw cranberries and slice each one in half. 

In a medium bowl, mix the dry ingredients. In a smaller bowl combine wet ingredients and add to dry. Mix until combined, then fold in cranberries and nuts. 

Transfer batter to pan and bake 40 - 45 minutes, until cake bounces back when pressed with a finger, is quite golden and has pulled away from the sides of the pan a bit.

Transfer to wire rack and let cool. 

Recipe adapted from: Sweet and Natural by Meredith McCarty

cran-orange & grains salad

Call me crazy, but when I created this recipe I became so hooked on it that I had to have it available in my fridge for the next 4 months! I don't make it quite as often now, but it always seems to be the first thing that disappears from the kitchen - yes, even before those crazy amazing chocolate almond cookies. (I make those as decoys for my hubby so there's more of this salad for me!)

If you love the combination of cranberry-orange even half as much as I do, then this recipe is for you! Haven't tried kamut or spelt before? They take a little longer to cook than brown rice, but yield a wonderful moist and chewy texture.

ingredients:

• 1 cup each dry kamut & spelt grains
• 1/2 - 3/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 - 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
• zest of 1 orange

dressing:

• juice of 1 large orange, or 1 1/2 small - med oranges
  
• 4 Tbsp flax oil
• 1 scant Tbsp vegan mayonnaise or soy yogurt
  
• salt to taste
• optional: 1 tsp honey

method:

Cook kamut and spelt grains in about 4 cups water.

When cooked, transfer grains to a bowl and add the cranberries, orange zest and sunflower seeds.

In a small bowl combine dressing ingredients. Pour over grains and mix well.



Recipe by: Trudel; Aug. 2006