Showing posts with label blondies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blondies. Show all posts

Saturday, June 26, 2010

A Greek Lunch and Chickpea Blondies!

Ah hello weekend! I had a long week and was so looking forward to a weekend of cooking, reading, dvd watching and relaxing on my patio. So far I've done all of these and Saturday is not over yet! I decided to go Greek for lunch. I pulled out my 'Greek Vegetarian' cookbook and made a couple of delicious dishes.


Gigantes which are oven baked beans with dill and tomatoes. I've made this before and I normally use dried large lima beans from scratch but this time I was lazy and used frozen butter beans. I wished I hadn't because for some reason the beans didn't get as mushy and tender as they usually do when I make this dish. But it wasn't a total loss. The flavor was amazing still!


Plated with whole wheat bread and skordalia, a very creamy garlicky and slightly tangy potato dip. So heavenly!


Served alongside a colorful salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, assorted olives, pepperoncini, pickled turnips and fresh lemon wedges.


So much flavor!


I finally got around to making these beautiful chickpea blondies. Mine are not gluten free. I used spelt flour to make these. Instead of strawberry jam, I used a combo of fig jam and date syrup! Deliciously sweet, tender and chewy.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Black Bottom Blondies



These came out lovely. I got the recipe from a lush vegan dessert book called 'My Sweet Vegan'. I cannot wait to try more recipes from this book. The recipes are really exciting and inventive. These blondies are delicious, sweet and fudgy. The bottom layer has chocolate chips which melted so there were gooey bits that made it all even better. I'm bringing these to a party tomorrow and I'm sure they'll go over well. I've already sampled 3 or 4 while hanging out on the couch watching Doctor Who reruns. They were the perfect thing with a cuppa tea!