The weather in Berlin has been rainy for most of the summer, which is not ideal for most people. But anyone with a vegetable garden, might think otherwise. A colleague of mine belongs to the second group, and was nice enough to give me three zucchinis from his garden. Apparently, his crop was yielding so much bounty that both he and most of his friends can’t even look at the damn vegetable anymore. These things were serious in size and weight; three pieces weighed 2.7 kg (~6 lbs)! The largest of the lot weighed 1.1 kg (~2.4 lbs):
My brother had given me a cookbook a few Christmases ago, from a very well-known food blogger named Clothilde Dusoulier, named Chocolate and Zucchini. This seemed like the perfect time to try my hand at the blog’s namesake recipe for Chocolate Zucchini Cake. My German roommates couldn’t really quite believe that chocolate and zucchini would go together, but once they tried it, they were believers.
Gâteau Chocolat & Courgette
from the cookbook Chocolate and Zucchini (all credits to Clothilde Dusoulier) Continue reading
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