Monday, December 15, 2008

Carrot cake

4 eggs
1 cup brown/white sugar
125g melted butter (I like it salted)
1 cup milk
2 cups whole-wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 or 4 cups grated carrots (how carroty do you want to be? :D)
1 cup raisins

Beat eggs till fluffy. Add sugar. Beat. Add melted butter. Beat. Add milk. Mix. Add baking powder and flour. Mix. Ad cinnamon. Mix. Add carrots and raisins. Mix. Bake in greased tin at 200C for 30-40 min. Keep an eye on it!

Hummus!

No tahini but we did it anyway!

8-10 cloves garlic
2 and a half to three cups of boiled chana/garbanzos/chick peas
3 tbs olive oil
1 tbs sesame seeds
salt to taste
lemon juice
water to get consistency

Toss the garlic and sesame seeds in 1 tbs oil for about 5 minutes. Put everything in a blender. Whizz. Add water to ger desired consistency. Remove, drizzle with lemon juice. Eat.

Pesto!

Strange pesto it is too.

2 cups of basil leaves - pack them in as tight as possible
1/2 cup of whole cashews
4 cloves of garlic
salt
roughly 4 tbs olive oil (I just put it in to keep the consistency)

Stick in blender/food processor. Whizz till you get the consistency you want. Eat.