Fabulous Fruit & Nut Bread

• 1 ⅓ c flour
• ⅔ c golden flax meal
• 1 c turbinado sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ c dried cranberries
• ½ c dried apricots, diced
• ⅔ natural cut date pieces
• ¼ c pecans, chopped
• 1 c apple juice
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp dried orange peel
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten

Preheat oven to 350°F. Combine flour and next 6 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Stir in cranberries, apricots, dates and pecans. In a separate bowl, combine juice, oil, orange peel and egg. Add wet ingredients to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter into a 9x5-inch lightly greased loaf pan. Bake for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.