Spiced Pumpkin Bread with White Chocolate Chips & Walnuts

We were in Savannah for the long weekend and I've just been a little lazy in the kitchen the rest of the week, but today I got an itch to bake something - something with pumpkin in it!  We're also going to North Carolina this coming weekend for a wedding and to see my family so I like to have some kind of newly baked good to share.  Hope they like it :-)

Ingredients 

• 1 cup organic all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 15 oz pure pumpkin puree
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

 Directions: 

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray loaf pan with Pam.
2. Mix the flour, baking soda, salt, and spices together in a small bowl and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix pumpkin, sugar, buttermilk, vanilla, and egg together.
4. Add the dry ingredients to wet, mixing just enough to moisten everything (overmixing will make the bread tough and dry). Fold in white chocolate chips by hand.
5. Spread the batter into the prepared loaf tin and bake for about one hour, until set.

Note: If you don't have buttermilk (like myself) just put 1/2 tablespoon white vinegar (or lemon juice) in a measuring cup and fill the rest with regular milk, let sit for 5 minutes and TADA you have buttermilk.