natalie

Saturday, August 29, 2009

A couple days ago, Madison brought home about 10 zucchini from the nutrition farm where she helped her older brother. The next couple of days we had zucchini galore around our apartment. We decided to make some zucchini bread out of a couple of them. It was WAY tasty, I highly recommend it, its a low-fat recipe and surprisingly only has 96 calories per slice!

Ingredients:

3 cups unbleached all purpuse flour

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

2 large eggs

1 large egg white

1/3 cup canola oil

2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce 

2-1/2 cups grated zucchini

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans and raisins, optional

Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat 2 standard-size (9-by-5-inch) loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.  In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice and mix well.  

In a medium-size bowl, lightly beat the eggs and egg white with a fork. Add the oil, applesauce, zucchini and vanilla. Stir together, then add to the flour mixture, and stir just until blended. Do not overmix. (I didn’t do this is a separate bowl and it was fine.) Pour the mixture into the prepared pans. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a sharp knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes. Remove the loaves from the pans and cool completely before slicing.

Last night brought out the 80's in me. The first 80's dance of the school year. Lovely.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

I'm off to my second day of classes. The first day was GREAT!

I LOVE this school.

I mean, what other school has free concerts Monday night, movie on the quad Tuesday night, Foam dance party Wednesday night, Bingo Thursday night, and 80's dance Friday night.

yeah, didn't think so! :)

Life is good.

Pics of my apartment coming soon.