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Zucchini

Zucchini Brownies (vegan)
I got this recipe from Rabi and converted it to metric measurements. I’ve baked the brownies several times in the past few weeks, and everyone loved them! You can’t taste the zucchini, which act as a binding agent (instead of eggs).

Ingredients:
250g flour
150g sugar
60g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
500-550g grated zucchini
125ml maple syrup
125ml vegetable oil
vanilla aroma

Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add maple syrup, oil and vanilla and mix until you get a pasty batter. Stir in zucchini and mix well. Optionally, add chopped nuts or what have you.

Spread in a baking pan (I use an 23x33cm casserole dish) and bake for 30 to 45 minutes at 175°C. Let them cool before cutting. They taste best the day after they’re baked, but keep for several days (if you can stop yourself from eating them all).

I took some to work, made some for friends and brought some over to my neighbour, and noone was able to guess which vegetable makes up almost half of these brownies. Enjoy!

Smitten Kitchen: Zucchini Fritters. I recently made something similar (Zucchinipuffer, as we call them in German) without a recipe, and they turned out a bit bland, but they’re great with curry-yoghurt-dip.

Oatmeal

Chai Oatmeal and Chai Oatmeal – I love chai, so I’ve got to try this!

Marshmallows

Homemade Mashmallows and slated brown butter crispy treats. I’ve made the latter lots of times, they’re easy to make and taste really good.

Indian Food

I like Raita, and here’s an AskMeFi thread with Raita recipes.

Madhur Jaffrey’s recipes at the BBC food chefs.

Schon wieder die Zeit gelesen

Die Zeit Ausgabe 47 vom 18.11.2010:

Öffentlicher Dienst: Rente mit 70. “Der öffentliche Dienst will erfahrene Mitarbeiter länger halten – mit Gehaltszuschlägen und neuen Altersgrenzen.” Von Leonie Seifert.

Stimmt’s? Der Sinn des Siebens. “Soll man Mehl zum Backen sieben?”, …fragt Karl Jakob aus München. Von Christoph Drösser.

Schulen in Afghanistan: Zwischen Didaktik und Taliban. “Deutsche Lehrer sollen afghanische Pädagogen fortbilden. Wie erfolgreich ist diese Art von ziviler Aufbauhilfe?” Von Martin Spiewak.

Peace via Cookie

I just baked World Peace Cookies. They’re the most chocolate-y cookies I ever tasted, I think, and I have to agree with Dorie Greenspan‘s neighbour who “became convinced that a daily dose of these cookies was all that is needed to ensure planetary peace and happiness.”

Garret, I would send you some for your birthday today, but as it is impossible to attach cookies to e-mails, you’ll have to get your lovely wife to bake you some! ;-)

You can find several variations of this recipe online:

    Snow and cookies

    Yay, we’ve got snow! It’s been snowing during the last three days and has gotten really cold. Now we’ve got about 10 cm (4 inches) of snow. It was very cold during the last few days, down to -12°C (10°F) at night and barely warmer during the day.

    I love the snow, especially when I don’t have to go out and drive in it, so it was good timing that it started on my last day of school before the Christmas holidays.

    I’ve been busy sewing some presents, but if you’d rather spend your time baking cookies, I found Gourmet magazine’s favorite cookie recipes from 1941 to 2008 on MetaFilter. They all look yummy! Aside from these almost 70 recipes I’ve been intrigued by these crisp salted oatmeal white chocolate cookies from smitten kitchen, which I’ve been meaning to try for a while. They look and sound just delicious! Also from smitten kitchen: salted brown butter crispy treats, which are fancy rice krispies treats, I guess.