I always use whole milk and butter for the mac & cheese. She likes it sloppy so I add more milk than called for and even add back some of the pasta water. The bread was just fine. It called for cinnamon chips and I had to make a special grocery trip to get them. But, now having made it I see that the bread wouldn't have been right without them. Someone in comments (Mr. Food site) wanted to know if she could just use chocolate chips. Duh!!! Then it wouldn't have been cinnamon bread, huh? It definitely needs the cinnamon chips. Without them, it would have just been a butter bread with ground cinnamon added.

I do quick breads all of the time. The neighbor especially loves banana bread so I've made several of those loaves recently. My next one will be zucchini bread I suppose. Haven't made that for a year now. And it's so easy with the food processor to do the grating. No matter what recipe I use for that, I put in 3 cups of the zucchini. Makes it so much better.

To ChileFarmer - I'm going to put in a plug right here and now for something that I feel strongly would give this poor tired old forum a really good shot in the arm - selecting you as the moderator! Since you've believed in this site for so long and campaigned so hard to resurrect it again, it ought to be "yours"! I have no idea if the old head of the herd, Matt, is still associated with this site or not but if he is I hope he reads this and responds to it - it's an idea whose time has definitely come! While waiting for some sort of response to my excellent idea, I intend to proceed as if it's actually happening - you get my vote already.

Ian M.

CF, you ought to post some of those gorgeous photos you took of that new kitchen of yours! Everyone should see how beautiful it is - looks like something straight out of Good Housekeeping or an architectural magazine. Just to die for.

Ian

YoYo, I don't think I have ever seen cinnamon chips, Course I don't do chips much. But your bread sure sounds good. I think I do have some butter scotch chips that are very old. I will look for the Cinnamon ones when at the market.

Ian, thanks for the kind words. But as you know I can't even keep myself running much less this site.
Push come to shove I might give it a go if asked. Although I am still having trouble :)navigating the site.
Hugs to the wife and the young man. CF

I too vote for ChileFarmer for moderator. So who ever has the magic wand, pass it over to CF and lets start this thing over.