Cranberry bread

These are some Wisconsin cranberries I found in the store over the holidays. Suprisingly, they weren't even that expensive for Norway anyway ($5 for 12oz). I wanted to make some cranberry bread from my mom's recipe to give away to some friends. The first effort was a horrible failure. I put too much batter in one pan, because basically I only had one pan. Then I cooked it about 3 times longer than the recipe said, and it still wasn't done.......argh.
Finally I gave up and and threw it out. I got another bag of berries and borrowed some pans from Joel for the 2nd attempt. That one worked. Cold cranberry bread from the fridge with some butter or margerine on it, that is some good stuff.
I managed to get sick twice over the holidays, right before Christmas and right after I got sick for the whole week between Christmas and New Years. That sort of took the fun out of it but we had some nice parties on Christmas weekend anyway. Now it's back to normal work weeks and slightly longer days ( the sun manages to stay up until 3pm now ). In a few weeks I will be back in the U.S. for about 10 days. I will be first at a conference in Las Vegas and then I will stop and visit my family in Wisconsin for a few days on the way back to Trondheim. I am starting my shopping list now for a visit to Fry's electronics in Vegas and probably at least 1 trip to Target as well.