Recipe of the Week: Cranberry Upside Down Cake

Yes - this is the second 'recipe of the week' for this week. The recipe pointed to in my 'Gleanings' from last Sunday turned out so luscious that I wanted to share. If course, I did my usual 'modify the recipe' thing:

• butter instead of margarine
• regular brown sugar rather than vegan
• whole wheat flour
• regular sugar rather than vegan
• almond milk rather than soy milk
• orange zest (since I had just eaten an orange and had the zest drying on a plate in the kitchen) rather than lemon zest or oil

And - I realized that I no longer have any regular round cake pans - so I made it in a rectangular Pyrex baking dish. 

It is yummy and a beautiful deep red color. Next time - I think I'll try making it in a Bundt pan!

Gleanings of the Week Ending November 19, 2011

The items below were the cream of the articles I read this past week:

1. National Park Service Documents Ancient Towers in Afghanistan - this is the second week in a row there has been an archaeology story from somewhere dangerous on my gleanings list (last week is was Lybia)
2. Baby Elephant pictures (Borneo) - note how large the eyes of the baby are in relation to the rest of him
3. New Mouthwash Targeting Harmful Bacteria May Render Tooth Decay a Thing of the Past - Wow! If this works as the early tests revealed (and without bad side effects), this is a disruptive technology....maybe to more than denistry if the same idea could be applied to other bacterial problems
4. Lots of Bundt Cake Recipes - some of the recipes reference books, others online - there are a lot of great ideas (and pictures) on this site to motivate me to dig out the Bundt pan!
5. Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives (TED talk) - genes have been identified that cause organisms to not age as fast (and thus live longer); studying what those genes do in the body is a very active area of research
6. Cranberries (info and recipes) – Cranberry upside-down cake…sounds good…think I’ll try this next week!
7. Fossil poop - coprolites - some discoveries from these bloob-like fossils...one included a human hair
8. Gaston Lacombe’s Fundy National Park Picture sequence - the photo of water smoothed rocks pulled me in (it is a great first picture for the series)