I love baking, especially during the holidays. Normally I’m very, very busy and don’t have much time to spend baking, but over winter break I can spend days and days just making dough if I feel like it. Plus, it’s fun to give away cookies and cupcakes.
Almost gingerbread cookies
I think it might be because I made coconut chocolate chip cookie dough (with bonus oatmeal since I didn’t have enough coconut or chocolate chips) on Sunday, and following Joy’s advice, filled my freezer with frozen cookie dough balls. This means that for the next several weeks I can have just-baked cookies whenever I want.
Between things like steep fines and jail time for the “crimes” of being poor and/or a person of color and being unable to get a job because of poor credit, it’s almost impossible to escape poverty in the US.
Moonbow
Yesterday was the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII.
Still sucks to be a woman in Afghanistan.
The Sri Lankan government doesn’t seem much better than the LTTE.
Plants can communicate and recognize self. Awesome.
No wonder we’re all addicted to the internet.
How and why patriarchy hurts men and who stands to benefit from feminism.
Scientists are grown-ups who refuse to give up their sense of wonder & curiosity.
It’s hard to keep believing Isreal is a “victim.”
Another evangelical caught fleecing his sheep.
from flickr user bobster855
I’m definitely going to make these cookies.
It’s hard to chastise other countries when you’re guilty too.
The Russian government doesn’t even try to hide it.
Attacking Iran would be idiotic.
Cutting already insufficient education budgets means students pay more for less.
Odd and disturbing Time magazine cover.
David Trautrimas, Sprinkler House
Think people don’t use religion to escape responsibility for their actions? Think again.
Why taking physics is important:
Extreme Pool Jump – Celebrity bloopers here
Major Prop 8 supporter gets divorce.
If ecology doesn’t work out, I’m applying at Netflix.
Incredible juxtoposition: US vs. Japanese representations of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Why we sleep: who knows?
You know those gigantic zucchini you get from your garden towards the end of the season when you already have more zucchini than you ever want to eat? My mom used to make bread out of those and freeze the loaves for us to eat all winter. The botany club garden had a few of those gigantic zucchini, so I had my mother send me her recipe. I made enough to fill up both of my bread pans, two cake pans, and two muffin pans and have been sharing with anyone who will eat it.
Reviews from friends:
Delicious!
It doesn’t taste like vegetables at all!
The best muffin I’ve ever had!
I’m trying not to eat all the bread you sent home with Anna, but…
So that you can also make the world’s best zucchini bread, I’ve reproduced my mother’s recipe below with advice.
Mom’s Awesome Zucchini Bread
Beat together sugar and eggs until creamy. Add oil and vanilla; mix. Add dry ingredients. Add zucchini and mix. Add pineapple, coconut and nuts. Mix. Bake in a greased and floured pan for one (1) hour at
350degrees, Makes 3 loaves or 1 Bundt.
After adding the dry ingredients, the mixture will be almost like cookie dough, but will get very soupy once you add the zucchini and pineapple. This is a pretty dense bread. I live at high altitude and made it fluffier by not adjusting for that (and leaving extra room in the pan!) If you overcook the bread, it will be dry and disgusting. Take it out as soon as a knife stuck in the middle comes out with cooked bits stuck to it. Making it in a Bundt pan is a great way to make the bread dry, so you probably actually shouldn’t do that. All measurements are approximate.
I was worried about carrying my groceries home the other day, but a friend was nice enough to pick me up. This meant that I could buy whatever I wanted, not just what I thought I could carry. I might have gone a little overboard, actually. It’ll probably take me the next 6 months to use 20 pounds of flour.
I have already made the best brownies in the world and these cheesecake filled cupcakes. I haven’t eaten any of the cupcakes since dairy=death for me, but others say they are delicious.
After finals, I came home and slept a long time. Then I got up and baked and baked and baked. I went a little nuts actually. Luckily, I went to a potluck the next day, so I only ate half a pan of brownies.
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