My favourite recipe

What's your favourite recipe?

Where did you learn it?

Is it something your mother taught you?

Or something you learnt from a cookbook or magazine?

My favourite recipe is for carrot cake.

You might think 'ehhh??? Carrot in a cake??' :O

But carrot cake is really delicious. :)

It's really moist and has lots of spices.

Here's a picture to tantalise you. ;)



And the best bit about carrot cake? It's really easy to make!!

Here's a recipe for you:

EASY CARROT CAKE

CAKE:

2 med. carrots
2 lg. eggs
1 c. sugar
3/4 c. oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 c. chopped walnuts

FROSTING;
1/2 stick unsalted butter
4 oz. cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 c. confectioners sugar

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 4x8 loaf pan. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside. Shred carrots. Mix together eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients to mixture. Fold in carrots and walnuts. Bake for 1 hour, or until tester comes out clean.
To make frosting, mix together all ingredients until smooth. Cover top and sides of cake and garnish with walnut halves.

Enjoy!!

gardening

Hey!

Long time no see!

How have you been?

I've been really busy lately.

I've been planting lots of vegetables in my garden.

Do you have a vegetable garden?

I like growing my own vegetables because I don't like the idea of eating all those agricultural chemicals.

And it's just great to be able to walk outside with a basket and come back in with a salad! :)

You can also grow vegetables that you can't find easily in Japan.

Do you know what these vegetables are? They're all growing in my garden.




It's rhubarb. The leaves are poisonous but the stems are delicious!

How about this one:




It's called button squash. It's like a little yellow zucchini. I love how bright the colour is.

Finally, how about this one?



It's called beetroot. It's the most amazing colour. It's like a really sweet turnip.

What's in your garden?