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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.

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:

• Smitten Kitchen: In which world peace eludes me
• Dorie Greenspan: World Peace Cookies: Metric Measures and Variations
• Bon Appetit September 2010: World Peace Cookie (cup measures)
• Küchenlatein: Tuesdays with Dorie: World Peace Cookies. (Ulrike Westphal did her own conversion to metric measurements.)
• Crockyblog: Nachgebacken: World Peace Cookies – she leaves out the salt and adds 100g salted macadamia nuts – mmmh!
• Chili und Ciabatta: Alpenblick mit Weltfrieden-Keksen, wo ich vor zwei Wochen auf dieses Rezept aufmerksam geworden bin – wegen des Namens.

From time to time great recipe threads come up at Ask MetaFilter. Here are some recent ones: recipes for delicious cinnamon buns and hearty soup recipes.

If you like Indian food, maybe you’d like to give Madhur Jaffrey’s Lemony Chicken with Fresh Coriander a try.

Und passend zur Jahreszeit klingt Zwetschgencrumble mit Vanillesoße einfach lecker!