Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Challenge you to a zucchini recipe contest

How many different recipes can you come up with for zucchini? Thus far I have made (beyond the usual fried, baked, steamed recipes), zucchini/potato pancakes, zucchini quiche, zucchini mock-apple pies, zucchini applesauce bread, zucchini-blueberry cake. Here is the latest recipe--although i've added my own quirky stuff:

Zucchini-Blueberry bread

3 C flour
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
1 t cinnamon
.5 t star anise powder
.5 vanilla powder

1.5 C sugar
3 eggs
C nonfat plain yougurt
stick melted butter
1 t vanilla

shred @2.5 cups zucchini and drain/squeeze out juices
1 C blueberries

Beat butter and sugar together, then add eggs 1/time, then yougurt, then vanilla
Sift together dry ingreds in separate bowl and add in thirds
to wet.

Add zucchini and then fold in blueberries. Pour into 9 X 13 baking pan . 350 degrees for @45 minutes.

Have fun.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Welcome all Cooks -- a place for recipes, pix of your creations, food narratives, and philosophy

Hi all,

At long last, I am starting this blog, as promised. For those of us who like to cook, to share ideas and our creations (in our spare time) this is a place to start. Please pass the invite on to those who might be interested--inside the department and elsewhere. No doubt we can turn this into something acacdemic down the road but for now. . . penny for your thoughts, recipes, ideas. I'm currently cooking with a broken arm, and have invented some new recipes as a result--but typing and writing remain a challenge. Nonetheless, when time permits, I'll post about what I've been up to. Hope you will too.

best,

Leda