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So Snacky All the Time: Urban Homesteading round #2

16 Tuesday Oct 2012

Posted by frannyritchie in Snacks

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baking, cooking, courgette, seasonal vegetables, zucchini

Urban homesteading is a grand adventure.  I’ve fended off dogs and small children in the Mill Road Cemetery; climbed trees in Grantchester (Felix, just try and stop me!); and snagged free vegetables in a variety of other places, as well. I’ve written about my plum pie and my elderberry syrup, but I want to document my other successes as well.

The most exciting vegetable I stumbled upon this autumn (so far!) was a pair of zucchini/courgettes that a coworker brought in to the office.  I found a recipe on Becky Bakes.  As is an unfortunate trend with cooking blogs, her writing is super annoying but her recipes are super delicious (the outlier is Smitten Kitchen.  I’m not a regular reader, but when I do read her posts, they are almost always typo-free and minimally obnoxious, which is more than I can say about this blog).

Anyway.  Literary style aside, the zucchini snacking cake was the most delicious thing I’ve made since salted nutella tarts.  The regular zucchini bread was equally delicious (and quickbreads are impossible to screw up.  Banana, pumpkin, zucchini, applesauce…easy peasy). I don’t remember what recipe I chose or I’d share it with you – but I can share some tips for making your zucchini bread healthy (honestly!healthy!….ish).  Go scant on the sugar (this is something I’m going to push the boundaries of. I also want to experiment with coconut sugar and/or honey, which have lower glycemic indexes and are therefore better for you and less likely to give you diabetes).  You can swap out all of the oil for applesauce or even chunks of apple microwaved into submission.  Finally, go a little heavy on the zucchini – you can get 2 loaded cups in there and it just tastes more moist and not like you’ve added healthy stuff.

You’re welcome!

Seriously the best roasted potatoes ever

26 Monday Dec 2011

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cooking, roasted potatoes, snacks

Ok, I know that roasting potatoes is not difficult, and that there are a bazillion recipes for roasted potato fries circulating the internet.   But you have not had this recipe, which is now the best recipe for roasted potato fries circulating the internet. And I am not lying.  This recipe is adapted from one the New York Times ran last year

So its very simple. Heat the oven to 425 F or 200 C.  Then start with potatoes: you can use pretty much any potatoes although bigger ones are easier to work with.  The original recipe calls for a mix of regular potatoes and sweet potatoes, which is delicious, but you can also use a monoculture.  Cut the potatoes into 1/4 to 1/2 inch strips (usually, I cut the potatoes into eighths), dump them in a bowl, and then add liberal quantities of:

– salt
– pepper
– cinnamon

and small but crucial quantities of

– nutmeg and
– cardamom

(now would be a good time to tell you all about my two new spice racks.  They’re magnetic! How sweet is that?)

Until we have a drill, we can’t affix it to the wall.  But I’m excited about it nonetheless.

Anyway.  Put the potatoes in a bowl, add the spices, drizzle with olive oil and stir with a wooden spoon.  Spread the potatoes on a cookie sheet so that they’re not touching and put them in the oven for 20 minutes.  Then fend off your spouse when s/he tries to eat them all.

 

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