Applesauce Nut Bread

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 cup, plus 1 tbs. granulated sugar,divided
1 cup applesauce
2 eggs
1/2 cup canola oil
3 tbs. milk
1 ½ cups walnut halves
1/4 cup brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 8 ½ by 4 ½ inch loaf pans. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl.

Mix 1 cup granulated sugar with applesauce, eggs, oil and milk in a small bowl; add to flour mixture and mix well.

Stir in walnuts. Spoon into pans. Mix brown sugar with remaining 1 tbs. granulated sugar and sprinkle evenly over tops of loaves.

Bake about 1 hour, until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cover loaves with foil for the final 20 minutes of baking if they begin to get too brown.

Makes 2 loaves.

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Herb Cheese-Stuffed Mushrooms

1(12 ounce) carton large fresh mushrooms
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 tbs. chopped fresh parsley
1 ½ tsp. chopped fresh rosemary
1 ½ tsp. chopped fresh thyme
1/4 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper
pinch of ground nutmeg

Remove stems from mushrooms, and discard stems or reserve for another use. Combine softened cream cheese and next 8 ingredients in a small bowl.
Spoon or pipe cream cheese mixture evenly into mushroom caps, and place in a lightly greased 13x9 inch pan. Bake mushrooms at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Yield: about 1 ½ dozen.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009, my dear husband Leo departed to heaven. He will be greatly missed.

Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints.

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