This week concludes the Unexpected Ingredient month of April.
The results have been mixed.
No one appreciated the white cake “deviled eggs”. People didn’t even try them, thinking they were really deviled eggs. Their loss, they were amazing.
The second week was when I replaced some of the oatmeal in a fudgy cocoa no bake with crushed chocolate chips. These tasted great but people just weren’t into it. This is disappointing because I thought the salt sweet was on par.
The third week was marmite sharp straws and these were a bona fide hit. These went over much better than the first two weeks. This was a sneaker hit. And I have to explore more of using the little bottle of marmite up on toast with butter and cheese.
The fourth week was no cookies because we’d worked all night on a very difficult case.
This is the fifth Thursday of the month and I made what I was going to make last week. Black bean brownies.
I heard that the secret to these is to really pulverize the black beans. And I did. I let the food processor run for 5 minutes as I added more liquidy things like a little water, a little oil, 3 eggs. This was before I added the dry ingredients of sugar, a bit of salt and baking powder.
I would have liked the bites to come out of the pan cleaner but you can’t win them all.
These also were gluten free.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 