Mimi's Cafe Bread

Have you ever had that stupendous carrot raisin bread that they serve at Mimi's Cafe? This is a very good imitation of it. So fantastic! Taken from here

Mimi's Carrot Raisin Bread
Ingredients:

1 1/2 C flour (I used whole white wheat)
1teaspoon baking soda
2t baking powder
2t cinnamon
1/2t salt
3/4 C oil
1 C brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C walnuts chopped (I forgot to add these)
1/2 C crushed pineapples drained
1/2 C raisins
1 C shredded carrot

Method
Sift first five ingredients In a separate bowl whisk oil, sugar and eggs. Stir liquid mix into flour mixture. Add the rest of the ingredients. Grease a 9-in pan or four mini loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 mins. For the mini loaves you want to bake for about 30.
**After its done baking leave the bread in the pan for 10 minutes. Then transfer it to a cooking rack. If you take it out right after its in the oven, it will fall apart, and so will you**

Garden Fresh Tomato Soup

We had this for dinner tonight with grilled cheese sandwiches. I got it from allrecipies.com

Ingredients
4 cups chopped fresh tomatoes
1 onion chopped
4 whole cloves
2 cups chicken broth
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons white sugar, or to taste


Directions
In a stockpot, over medium heat, combine the tomatoes, onion, cloves and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, and gently boil for about 20 minutes to blend all of the flavors. Remove from heat and put in blender until smooth.
In the now empty stockpot, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the flour to make a roux, cooking until the roux is a medium brown. Gradually whisk in a bit of the tomato mixture, so that no lumps form, then stir in the rest. Season with sugar and salt, and adjust to taste.

I added a little bit of milk at the end, then poured it into bowels and sprinkled grated cheese and parsley on top.

A lot of people recommended straining this after you blend it. I liked it how it was, but I didn't like the cloves floating in it... I will probably either fish those out or use ground cloves next time.

Double it.

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Dill?

Does anyone have a good recipe that uses dill? I'd love to see it.

Requests

I have another recipe to post, but first I would like to make a request...

Dear Micah, Please post the recipe for the yummy nummy noodles that you cooked for us while I was visiting... please and thank you!

Lemon, Asparagus Fettuccine

This is a great recipe that I stole from Angela. We double it.

Ingredients:
8oz Fettuccine Noodles
2 cups asparagus
1 summer squash
2 (1 tsp) cloves garlic
1Tbs butter
1/2 cup cream
2 tsp lemon peel
Parmesan cheese

Cook Pasta. Cook asparagus, squash and garlic in butter for 2-3 minutes. Remove vegetables and add to pasta. Combine cream and Lemon peel in skillet. Boil 2-3 minutes or reduced to about 1/3 cup. Poor cream over pasta. Stir gently. Add Parmesan.