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PRODUCTS: More Favorites For The Season

November 11, 2016 at 6:42 am · Filed under Bread-Crackers-Sandwiches, Breakfast & Brunch, Thanksgiving & Fall

White Chocolate Cranberry Loaf La Brea Bakery

Cranberry Walnut Loaf La Brea Bakery
[1] White Chocolate Cranberry Loaf and [2] Cranberry Walnut Loaf, delicious additions to the holiday table from La Brea Bakery.

Two more recommendations from our ongoing nibbling of limited-edition seasonal flavors:

LA BREA BAKERY: ARTISAN BREADS, READY TO EAT OR READY TO HEAT

La Brea Bakery, a brand of artisan breads available at select grocers nationwide and from Amazon Fresh, is an asset for home munching or serving guests. All are in the SRP range of $3.99-$4.99.

You can have seasonally flavored breads in different forms—some actually emerging warm from your oven.

With the Take & Bake options, the bread is partially baked when you purchase it, requiring just a few minutes in the oven to yield a warm and fragrant loaf.

White Chocolate Cranberry Loaf. We love this for breakfast toast and luncheon Brie sandwiches. Creamy white chocolate and tart dried cranberries pair beautifully with the sourdough (photo #1).

Take & Bake Cranberry Walnut Loaf. Sourdough with toasted walnuts and dried cranberries is delicious from the oven or toasted the next day for breakfast. We used it at lunch with ham and blue cheese from the fridge. It works with any cheese you’d use for a grilled cheese sandwich. Cut small slices to serve with cheese (photo #2).

Holiday Stuffing Loaf. Our friend Linda (a beast in the kitchen) bakes her own bread from scratch, just to make her stuffing. You can save the time and effort with this special loaf, seasoned with sage, thyme, celery, black and white pepper. You can brag that you baked your stuffing from fresh bread.

Take & Bake Holiday Stuffing Rolls. The same recipe as the Holiday Stuffing Loaf is available in roll form. Heat them up the day after Thanksgiving for a memorable turkey sandwich.

We also had a bite of La Brea Bakery’s:

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Loaf Cake. This spiced pumpkin loaf—cinnamon and nutmeg—has a cream cheese swirl, and a garnish of toasted pumpkin seeds. It can be enjoyed any time of the day. We turned it into dessert with a side of mascarpone.

Gingerbread Loaf Cake. Moist spiced gingerbread cake with hints of ginger, molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove, and topped with a candied ginger streusel. Gingerbread was a cookie before it was a cake. It started as a holiday food because the spices were too costly to be used for everyday cookies. Check out the history of gingerbread.

The only problem with these two loaves: They disappeared far too quickly.

For more information visit LaBreaBakery.com.

PUMPKIN TORTILLA CHIPS

Another treat we look forward to each fall are pumpkin tortilla chips.

There are many brands. bit we’ve grown to prefer Food Should Taste Good and Way Better Chips.

You can enjoy the chips with your favorite salsa, or get some of Mrs. Renfro’s Pumpkin Salsa or Frontera Chipotle Pumpkin Salsa, which is sold out on the Frontera website but available at retailers nationwide.

For $3.95 a jar (Frontera’s is $4.95), these delicious salsas can be given as Thanksgiving favors (so much better for guests than a chocolate turkey) or stocking stuffers.

The lucky giftees can wake up the day after Thanksgiving and have the pumpkin salsa with their breakfast eggs.

DON’T TARRY: THESE ARE ALL LIMITED EDITIONS…

…and they won’t be back again until next fall.

DID YOU KNOW…

YOU CAN BAKE OR FRY ACTUAL PUMPKIN FOR CHIPS!

Make your own chips from pumpkin slices with this recipe from Hojiblanca and this artsy-looking chip recipe from Savvy Naturalista.

Make them as a real surprise for your guests, or for your Thanksgiving hosts.

Skillet Fondue

Real Pumpkin Pumpkin Chips
[3] Try pumpkin tortilla chips (photo courtesy Way Better Chips) with [4] a skillet fondue (photo courtesy La Brea). [5] You can also make solid pumpkin chips (photo courtesy Hojiblanca).