SRS - I read the comments and it seems that depeding upon your oven, you may have to adjust the cooking time a little to make sure it's done. I printed that recipe out as well as one for Cranberry Upside Down Cake which was more of a traditonal upside down cakey cake. The Duff is like a big cookie gooey type thing.

When you make the Duff, do you line the pan with well-greased parchment or do you just grease the pan and hope for the best?

BTW - my party meatballs were so good thatI have another stock pot of cranberry sauce simmering down to the desired thickness as I type. I want to be able to bring a big crockpot of mini meatballs in that sauce to a party later in the week. My husband suggests adding some more horseraddish since the commercial chili suace wasn't horseraddishy enough for his tastes. I might leave half this batch of cranberry sauce thick and not run it through a sieve. That way the party meatballs will have bits of real cranberries and such.

I had my doubts about any recipe that called for opening a bottle of something and a can of something and dumping it in a crockpot but it turned out to be a tasty combination. if you don't have homemade cranberry sauce on hand, I'm sure the jellied kind will work just fine. Just taste the sauces when its all combined and decide if it needs punching up with some horseraddish or hot sauce.

My neighbor brought over the most delightful sugar cookies last night. They had that perfect melt-in-your-mouth texture while at the same time being a little bit sandy. That was a nice surprise. Then she asked if she could use my washing machine! LOL. Clever girl - ply me with cookies first!

I made another batch of my low-fat Oatmeal Pumpkin mini-loaves to package up as gifts for the neighbors. The last batch was a big hit. I love my new silicone mini loaf pan. It makes 8 mini-loaves instead of six so if I double most recipes, I get 16 perfect loaves and they pop out so easily. I should try try SRS's Banana Bread recipe in my new mini-loaf pan!

Last weekened I made Mini-loaf lemon spongecakes with meyer lemon juice and meyer lemon glaze. A co-worker of my husbands has a meyer lemon tree and I just had to zest them up and make the house smell like a lemon grove! Those little cakes didn't last 2 days. Everyone snacked on them. I'd make more but I figured I'd stick to the healthy Oatmeal-Pumpkin loaves this week.

I just got a great new cookbook and it has some wonderful Clafouti recipes in it. I'm going to make Cherry Clafouti for Christmas morning

My sister-in-law sent us a nice gift of meats from Virginia Traditions including peppered bacon and slices of country Ham. That means Country Ham, braised cabbage with peppered bacon and Red Eye Gravy for Christmas morning breakfast in addition to the Clafouti! Yum! We'll be having two other couples over for Christmas Brunch so it should be nice.