Comments on: Dark Days Week 11

By: Nate @ House of Annie

Nate @ House of Annie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:57:12 +0000

Excellent meals!

Since you are using homegrown ingredients in your dishes, would you like to enter this post in our Grow Your Own roundup this month? Full Details at

http://chezannies.blogspot.com/2010/02/announcing-grow-your-own-39.html

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:32:17 +0000

For julia:

Cake
1 1/2 cups AP flour (I used spelt)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 t soda
1/2 t salt
6 T oil (I used sunflower)
1 c buttermilk
1 t vanilla

Bake 350 F in floured 9×9 pan, sift dry ingredients, mix wet and then combine them barely. Bake 30 min. This is not rich at all so you may want to add chocolate chips.

Frosting:
1/4 cup room temp butter
2 cups conf sugar
2-3 T milk or water
1 1/2 T cocoa powder
1 t vanilla

This is not fancy or rich but it’s cheap, easy and quick just like a snack-n-cake.

By: Dark Days 09/10 :: Week #11 Recap (PNW) « (not so) Urban Hennery

Dark Days 09/10 :: Week #11 Recap (PNW) « (not so) Urban Hennery — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:01:23 +0000

[...] bronchitis isn’t slowing Annette down (even though she says it is). She managed yet another impressive array of Sustainable Eats this week, including omelettes, chile con carne with corn muffins, whole-wheat [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:38:18 +0000

Oh crum! I’ll let you know how my Vit D experiment goes (per Brook’s link.) I’m keeping the house awake here too and sympathy, if there ever was any, has long since eroded. Not to keep you tied up on my blog but how long has he had it?

By: kitsapFG

kitsapFG — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:32:19 +0000

I regret to tell you that my husband is still barking like a seal from this bronchitis. He woke me up again last night and if I were not so annoyed at the lack of sleep… I truly would have felt miserable for him. Really I would have.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:57:11 +0000

KFG – How did he finally kick it? I’ve been doing everything (except remembering to take the supplement that I was out of 2 weeks prior to getting sick), elderberry, honey, channeling Jack LaLane…
Mom, I will for sure. That and the pizza crust I am engineering right now because the family is loving having english muffins around. They are sweeter than bread and no crusts for the kids to complain about!
Myrnia, I don’t think it would. Corn is really hard. I have a family grain mill (http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/02/02/the-grain-mill/) from everything kitchens. You can grind wheat or corn and set it from crack to flour. I’ve had it for a year and still love it.

Julia, I’ll post – it’s from The Sweet Kitchen and just has a few ingredients with some weird technique that was unncessary so I’ll adapt to make it simpler. I used whole ground spelt but whole wheat pastry flour would work just as well. Those chocolate cakes hide the extra bran & germ perfectly! MWAH HA HA.

Brook, thank you! I’ve been taking 1 T of fermented cod liver oil a day but I just took an extra 2 1/2 (bleh!). We’ll see now if I feel much improved by tomorrow. Crossing fingers…

By: Brook

Brook — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:58:53 +0000

Sorry you’re not feeling well. I remembered seeing this link on Cheeseslave’s blog about vitamin D for bronchitis.

http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/10/28/real-food-cures-vitamin-d-for-bronchitis-and-iodine-for-moles/

Feel better!

By: julia

julia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:32:20 +0000

Want that easy peasy cake recipe!

Feel better! So sorry you’ve been sick. Big frowny face.

By: Myrnie

Myrnie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:20:35 +0000

Looks great My husband makes all our egg dishes, too How did you grind your corn? I have a grain grinder, but it only makes flour. Do you think a blender would work to make corn meal?

By: The Mom

The Mom — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:11:47 +0000

Great work for a sick woman. When you get that WW english muffin perfected, please post it. I should try to do the same myself. That cake looks yummy.