My mother's gift...Lemon thyme bread....Wow

 Lemon and thyme go together like milk and cookies and I have the recipe to prove it. Dried thyme can be used instead of fresh if that's what you have. just be sure to crush the dried with you fingers.

Today is my mother's birthday. My father asked her yesterday what she wanted to do for her birthday and she said " I want to spend the day at Melody's house (that's me hehe) So she came over today and I made her lunch. She had chicken noodle soup, and then we topped it of with a special treat I made for her. Lemon Thyme bread. All she could say the whole time was "wow". It is seriously amazing and would be ideal with a cup of tea.

Lemon Thyme Bread with glaze

Wet ingredients:
1/2 cup of butter
3/4 cup of evaporated cane juice (you can substitute with sugar)
1 egg
1/2 cup of buttermilk
1/cup of sour cream (it looks funny underneath because I make my own)

Cream butter and cane juice (or sugar) together. then add egg

After you creamed butter, cane juice, and egg set aside. In a separate bowl combine buttermilk and sour cream set aside. Now in third bowl mix dry ingredients that are as follows.

Dry ingredients
1 3/4 cup of unbleached flour
2 tbsp minced fresh thyme
1 tbsp grated lemon peel
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Now you should have three  bowls. Start adding dry ingredient mix to the creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture beating well after each addition.
Transfer to a greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 40-45 mins until pick comes out clean.Cool for 10 mins and in loaf pan which the perfect time to make glaze.

Ingredients for glaze
in a small bowl combine 1/2 cup of confection sugar, 1/2 tsp minced fresh thyme and 4-6 tsp lemon juice. Whisk together.

Now that loaf has cooled for 10 mins remove from pan on to rack and drizzle yummy glaze

                  Enjoy with a cup of tea...so fantastic...here's proof

                                       Happy Birthday Mom


                                    Encouragement to chew on:

Instead of giving yourself reasons of why you can't, Today give yourself reasons of why you can. There's this quote I love "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when I know there are footprints on the moon" So today reach for them, believe and someday you will obtain. God has equipped you will all you need to reach for the star.