Recipe of the Week - Strawberry Bread

The other week, I bought some strawberries on sale.  Even though they're not really in season, it was a great price...gotta love a bargain!  I searched online for a new recipe to try when I cam across this one on allrecipes.com.  It turned out great and will definitely add it to my repertoire!

Strawberry Bread
2 cups fresh strawberries
3 1/8 cups all purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1 1/4 cups chopped pecans

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Butter and flour two 9x5" loaf pans
- slice strawberries and place in bowl.  Sprinkle lightly with some sugar and set aside
- combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking soda in large bowl; mix well.  Blend oil and eggs into strawberries.  Add strawberry mixture to flour mixture, blending until dry ingredients are just moistened.  Stir in pecans.  Divide batter between pans
- Bake 45 to 50 minutes until a tester inserted comes out clean.  Let cool in pans on wire rack for 10 minutes.  Turn loaves out of pans and let cool before slicing.

*my pans were 8x4" so I baked a little longer than specified.

Enjoy!