Welcome to the new layout. I know I’ve changed the layout of my blog a couple of times, but now I’m done. I’m very happy with this one.
I finally pulled myself together and bought a theme. I never really liked any of the free ones. I’ve bought the theme Mint Leaf from a lovely etsy shop called Dont Tell Anyone. If you ever consider buting a theme yourself you have to check out that shop. All of the themes are gorgeous and the service is excellent!
I just came home from a very nice weekend trip to my grandmother. It is always nice visiting her. We usually cook a lot and go for a lot of walks.
My grandmother has just written down the story of her childhood. She grew up on a big farm on Funen and she remembers the second world war clearly. A very interesting read. Anyway, she asked me if I could help her adding photos to the story. And so I did. It was so much fun to look though all those old photos. I love old black and white photos like these. Check out the ones above. Pictures of my grandmother as a very little girl (she’s 78 years old by now).
Classy graddad.
My mother and uncle.
One of the days my grandmother found an old box full of slides from the 60’s. There were tone of pictures of my very own mother as a baby and very little girl. And some of my granddad, whom I’ve sadly never known, since he died at a very young age. The little box in which you placed the slides in order to look at them pretty much resembled the microscopes we use in biotechnology. We recently found out that we could take a photo through the lens my our phones and in that way get a great picture of whatever was in the microscope, so I thought “Why not try that with the slides”. And it totally worked! So now I have some very nice old photos on my computer.
It was so nice to look trough them. Old pictures are the true treasuries in life.
Enough talking about old photos and photo techniques. Let’s talk brownies.
My recipe on healthy avocado chocolate cookies is by far the most popular post on this blog. Many people have requested a recipe on a healthy brownie as well. I really love the cookies so I was so up for the challenge. So here it is: The healthiest brownie you’ll ever get.
These brownies are very dense (we like under baked brownies right?) but slightly more cloud-like than the usual brownie.
Enjoy!
- 200 g. (1½ cup) avocado flesh* (very ripe, but not brown)
- 1 cup (240mL) coconut sugar OR ½ cup (120 mL) honey*
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup (240mL) dark cocoa powder (a bit more than 1 dl.)
- 100 g. dark chocolate (I used 85% cocoa)
- 1 tbsp. water
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- Preheat oven to 175°C / 350° F.
- In a bowl using a hand mixer (or use a stand mixer with the whipping-thing attached), mix together avocado and coconut sugar or honey until smooth. Beat in the eggs.
- Mix in the cocoa powder.
- In a foodprocessor grind the chocolate until fine (no lumps bigger than a small pea). Mix "chocolate-flour" into the dough.
- In a small bowl or glass dissolve the baking soda in water and add to the dough. Mix well.
- Butter a square pan or spring form. Pour the dough into the form and bake for approx. 20 minutes.
- Cool down outside the oven. Then cover and let cool in the fridge for at least 2 hours. The brownies becomes better the longer they sit in the fridge.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to an week.
