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Dead set!

Soon I will get my act together and start uploading some non-food related projects I have been working on.

In the meantime, this recipe was enjoyed over the summer in the Mallee and featured our good friend's gargantuan zucchini.

Good picnic food for a lazy summer's afternoon too methinks.

Zucchini Slice
1 tbsp butter
1 onion, diced
2 rashers bacon, diced
3 large zucchini, grated (400g)
60g pecorino cheese, grated
60g parmesan cheese, grated
1 C SR flour
4 eggs, lightly beaten
salt and pepper

Preheat oven 180ºC
Melt butter in pan, cook onion until soft and translucent
Add bacon and cook for 2 more minutes
Remove and cool

Combine bacon, zucchini, cheese and flour
Add eggs and seasoning

Spoon mixture into greased shallow dish
Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown and spongy to touch

Too good not to share…

Chocolate Nut Brownies

150g butter
180g chocolate
2 eggs
1C brown sugar – caster sugar ok
75g self raising flour
75g plain flour
150g chopped nuts eg walnuts, pecans, roasted in oven ~8 minutes
1 tsp coffee optional
1 tbsp cocoa optional

Preheat oven to 180ºC.
Lightly grease a 20x30cm tray and line with baking paper.

Sift flours, coffee/cocoa and combine with roasted chopped nuts in a bowl.

Gently melt butter and chocolate, stirring until combined. Leave to cool.
Whisk eggs and sugar together.
Add chocolate/butter mixture to eggs/sugar mixture.

Add wet mixture to dry ingredients, gently fold.
Pour into greased tray.
Bake at 180ºC for 20 minutes, or until brownies begin to come away from the side of the tray. Brownies should be slightly soft and gooey when fresh from the oven.
Gently remove from tray and cool on wire rack

Brownies are best cut (and eaten) when warm.
Dust with icing sugar or cocoa to serve.

Stored in an air tight container, brownies will be good for a week - if they last that long.

Rose Coloured Glasses

Musical highlights of note 2005, no particular order

live

Mess Hall @ Ding Dong

Lambchop @ Corner

Detroit Cobras @ Tote

Mercury Rev @ Hamer Hall

Teenage Fanclub @ HiFi

Martha Wainwright @ Readings

Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males @ Tote

Sons & Daughters @ Carpark Festival

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earholes - mostly 2005 and belated laggard discoveries

Naturally, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Lips Like Oranges from What Was Left, Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set

How do you keep love alive from Cold Roses, Ryan Adams

Sumday, Granddaddy

Words for Sadness from Car Tape, Lisa Miller

A Ghost is Born and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco

All things Pernice Brothers...Discover a Lovelier You and Nobody's Watching

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