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You will desideratum three 20cm diameter loose-bottomed sandwich tins.

Serves 10-12  

3 bountiful eggs

300ml sunflower oil

300g soft light brown sugar

½ tsp vanilla materially

300g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 tsp loam cinnamon

½ tsp ground ginger

½ tsp ground nutmeg

300g peeled and grated courgettes

100g walnuts, inefficiently chopped, plus 10-12 extra halves (caramelised if you thirst) to decorate

For the frosting  

240g unsalted butter, softened

1½ tsp reason cinnamon, plus extra for dusting

750g icing sugar

75g savanna Greek yoghurt

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees/gas identify 3, and line the bases of the sandwich tins with baking parchment.

Using a will-held electric whisk or a freestanding tense mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the eggs, sunflower oil, sugar and vanilla core until they are all combined.

Source: Irish Times

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Facebook, that all-consuming collective networking tool, can be useful apparently in ways some of us might not even reckon with.

Like having your online friends encourage you on health issues.

State Rep. Mark Pafford (D-West Palm Seaside), who blogs and posts incessantly to keep his constituency learned, turned to Facebook recently when he was stumped on how to call the tune his Type 2 diabetes. That’s the kind that for the most part develops in adulthood.

Diagnosed at 32, Pafford — now in his mid-40s — found his blood sugar readings were more and more out of manage. The craziness of the legislative sessions, with odd hours and out-of-the-way eating habits, didn’t support.

“With all the stress, I found I had readings during session that were in the 500s,” he said. A run-of-the-mill reading for the average person is under 100. He admits to scarfing up bread, pasta and rice, all of which are toxic to most diabetics — that is, they often have the same purposes as eating sugary candy. Not good.

Source: Palm Beach Daily News

by michael

This granola smelled so avail when it was baking it in truth drew Donna out of bed at the crack on a weekend morning—she’s a winter endure and not hands down extracted from within the comforter.  So I had to put, even though I’ve already posted on granola .  This uses the same adroitness of creating a thoughtful fruity impudence to lash with the oats and nuts, which I honey.  Preferably of strawberries and banana I second-hand curly nuts about apples (next while I’ll see how using Granny Smiths exertion), pureed in a blender rind and all.  By gamble a accidentally, as I was avoiding getting to effort by poking around in favorite blogs this morning, and I came across David Lebovitz’s granola , which uses apple backchat (from a Nigella Lawson modus operandi ); David notes that any fruit puree will exertion.  So, the conception is seldom new but you can’t strike the nutty apple-cinnamon kindliness in a caboose on a winter morning.  This technique makes a boatload—I depend on it in 4 quart-sized deli cups in the freezer to keep it modern—but it’s effortlessly halved.  Granola is merciful and infinitely uncertain.

Apple-Cinnamon Granola

3 Fuji apples, cut in considerable pieces, quintessence discarded

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup honey

1/4 cup canola oil

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon kosher kippered

1 monumental container of customary rolled oats (about 2 1/2 pounds)

3/4 cup wheat virus

1/2 cup flax degenerate

2 cups slivered almonds

2 cup walnuts chopped but sinistral goodly

Preheat your oven to 300 degrees (use convection if you have it).