Archive for October, 2006

Banana Walnut Bread

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Ingredients
125g sugar
50g unsalted butter, softened
2 large eggs
4 ripe bananas, mashed
4 tbsp plain yogurt
1 tsp vanilla powder
260g all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
60g walnuts, small pieces

Directions
1. Cream together the sugar and butter until fluffy.
2. Stir in eggs. Stir in bananas, yogurt, vanilla and walnuts.
3. Gently stir in flour mixed with baking soda and salt.
4. Pour into a 9x5x3 loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 1 hour.

What you didn’t know about FairPlay…

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Today I visited unfairplay.com (NSFW) and, much to my surprise, it was not an anti-DRM site.

In other FairPlay news, did you know there’s a FairPlay condom trademark?

FairPlay condom trademark

Zune FUD

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

There’s an amazing amount of Zune FUD on the net these days. I’ve owned several generations of iPods and I’m looking forward to the release of Zune. It will be the first portable player to support MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV and H.264 (though apparently H.264 support will be through transcoding at launch; native support will probably follow in a future firmware update). The 3-play/3-day limit on wireless music sharing is a major handicap, though.

Microsoft Zune

Greek spice cake

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Ingredients
2 c. sifted all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cloves, ground
1/8 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/8 tsp. allspice
2 eggs
1 c. white sugar
1 c. light brown sugar
1 c. salad oil
1 c. sour milk

Directions
Beat eggs thoroughly and mix with brown sugar and set aside. Mix the dry ingredients together and add the milk. Then add the eggs and brown sugar and stir thoroughly. Add the oil last. Pour into a lightly greased 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch pan. Bake for 50 minutes at 350 degrees.

(via cooks.com)