all i think about, talk about, spend my time doing: food. beautiful, real, homemade, vital food. food that is nurtured by my hands and my heart. i am forming my life around my love for food, around the joy food brings to people, around the real changes we can make in our world by supporting sustainable, conscious food systems.
(homemade pickles after six hours)
i'm at a point in my life that is quiet, stable, mellow; people that i've known in my more frantic past comment on it when they see me, now, after some time apart. i have focus, but that focus is, for the first time, not intense, not desperate. i have goals and i am achieving them calmly.
(homemade habanero hot sauce in 250mL jars)
"calm" for me, though, is relative. i'm calmer by degrees than i have ever been, but i'm not a calm person by nature. (despite the wrist tattoo.)
chocolate zucchini cake french toast with strawberry coulis, brown butter, candied walnuts, and a chocolate dipped strawberry by malloreigh, on Flickr
CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI LOAVES MAKES 2 LOAVES
(recipe originally from vegweb)
5 tablespoons ground flax + 10 tablespoons water
3 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups cane sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups zucchini, grated
1 cup vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 95 loaf pans. For flax eggs, microwave flax meal and water for 30 seconds, stir, microwave, 30 more seconds, and stir again. (Or use hot water, stir, and let sit til gummy.)
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Add vegetable oil, and use a fork to stir. It will be dry but stir as well as possible. Then add the flax mixture. Continue to mix.
Add milk and vanilla, and stir until well blended. Add zucchini and chocolate chips and blend them in. The mixture should be nice and smooth and moist looking.
Spoon into prepared loaf pans. Bake 55-60 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and it will keep for days.
(homemade pickles after six hours)
i'm at a point in my life that is quiet, stable, mellow; people that i've known in my more frantic past comment on it when they see me, now, after some time apart. i have focus, but that focus is, for the first time, not intense, not desperate. i have goals and i am achieving them calmly.
(homemade habanero hot sauce in 250mL jars)
"calm" for me, though, is relative. i'm calmer by degrees than i have ever been, but i'm not a calm person by nature. (despite the wrist tattoo.)
chocolate zucchini cake french toast with strawberry coulis, brown butter, candied walnuts, and a chocolate dipped strawberry by malloreigh, on Flickr
CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI LOAVES MAKES 2 LOAVES
(recipe originally from vegweb)
5 tablespoons ground flax + 10 tablespoons water
3 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups cane sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups zucchini, grated
1 cup vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 95 loaf pans. For flax eggs, microwave flax meal and water for 30 seconds, stir, microwave, 30 more seconds, and stir again. (Or use hot water, stir, and let sit til gummy.)
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Add vegetable oil, and use a fork to stir. It will be dry but stir as well as possible. Then add the flax mixture. Continue to mix.
Add milk and vanilla, and stir until well blended. Add zucchini and chocolate chips and blend them in. The mixture should be nice and smooth and moist looking.
Spoon into prepared loaf pans. Bake 55-60 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and it will keep for days.
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bendingunit23:
Hope you're OK
sunspun:
I envy your calm. I find myself up early in the morning churning out muffins and pulling kittens off of countertops when I am stressed. And also when I am not. I guess that is where I find my peace. I want that simple life so much, baking bread, gardening, hiking, fostering kittens, painting... I am confident it will come soon. Just have to keep holding on. When you have to pick up and move every few months, calm is really, really rare. So, I hold my breath through the moments between the kitchen and the mountain.