My name is Jessica and I am a blonde. I would never say blondes are dumb and the people who do are just jealous, but I will say I have had my fair share of "blonde moments". Unfortunately, these "blonde moments" will never be forgotten by my family and friends and I have been the butt of many jokes. A few of my remarks have been, "How many One-A-Day vitamins am I supposed to take?" and " What time does 24 Hour Fitness close?" I'm sure you can understand why I have been the center of many blonde jokes.
I have always loved to cook, but regrettably my blondness has also followed me to the kitchen. Many of my recipes have been successful while others have lead to disaster. This is the reason I have created this blog. In a previous cooking experiences I tried to make pumpkin bread...
I absolutely love this recipe! I obtained this recipe from my kindergarten classroom when we made pumpkin bread as a class for the thanksgiving holiday. We mixed all the ingredients together and decorated our coffee cans to look like turkeys. The kitchen lady, Sheila, baked all of our breads in the oven and they came out perfectly moist and delicious. About 15 years later I decided to make this pumpkin bread by myself for our Thanksgiving Feast...this is where the blonde moments come in. Who knew I would be able to mess up a recipe I could make in kindergarten as a 5 year old! I followed the recipe mixing all the ingredients together and the batter looked and smelled delicious. I poured the batter into two bread pans and put them into the oven to bake. The house started to smell of pumpkin and spices and I could not wait to have a piece! Finally they were done and I took them out of the oven to cool...They looked so amazing. Being the impatient person that I am I took the bread out of the pans before they were cooled. The breads looked great and smelled unbelievable. I went to cut into the pumpkin bread and batter stared to seep out from where I made the first cut. I thought that was kind of strange so I picked up the loaf to see what the problem was...as I picked it up the loaf cracked in half and batter started pouring out of the middle. It was as if I had just cracked an egg and the yolk and whites ran all over the cutting board. My twin brothers came in and started yelling "What did you do?" I checked back over my recipe to see what the problem was...maybe it wasn't finished cooking, but as I looked at the recipe I could now see two more ingredients that I had missed before...baking soda...baking powder. How in the world could I have left the most important ingredients out of my bread!
Now, you must realize that I wrote this recipe on a piece of paper when I was 5 years old, so the recipe was not very easy to read and because of this my pumpkin bread was ruined and had to be thrown away. Needless to say I made another batch, this time making sure to add the baking soda and powder and it turned out delightful.
Here is my kindergarten pumpkin bread recipe for you to enjoy...just make sure you remember to use all of the ingredients!
Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
4 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
2/3 cup water
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
Mix all of the above ingredients together in a large bowl. Slowly add in 3 cups of flour and 3 cups of sugar. Make sure there are no lumps!
Grease 2 bread pans with shorting or butter. Split batter between the two pans.
Bake in the oven for 60 minutes at 350 degrees...Enjoy!
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