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RECIPE: Savory Olive & Feta Poundcake
For last weekend’s vegetarian supper club in Eugene, the theme was Greek food. I had the idea for an olive oil/chardonnay poundcake in my queue of potential recipes, and I thought it was a good one to modify and “make Greek.” It was going to be an experiment, and I think it worked out quite nicely…
Savory Olive & Feta
Poundcake (or cupcakes)
…
Serves 12
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 1¼ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- ⅓ cup Chardonnay
- 1½ cups unbleached white flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp kosher salt
- ½ cup kalamata olives, pitted & sliced
- 1 cup feta cheese (to taste)
Preheat oven to 350°
Steps:
- In a mixer, beat eggs. Gradually add sugar, beat until batter is light with no lumps.
- Slowly stir in olive oil and chardonnay (you can combine these together before adding to mixture).
- Sift together flour, baking powder & salt. Fold into egg mixture.
- Stir olives and cheese into the batter.
- Gently pour batter into a 9” bread or cake pan.
- Bake at 350° until cake reaches 200° internally, approximately 45 minutes to an hour.
- Turn out onto a baking rack and allow to cool completely.
- Slice and serve!
Cupcake Update: makes 12+ cupcakes, baking time at 350F is 25-30 minutes (or until golden and a fork or toothpick comes out clean).
This will definitely be a repeat recipe.
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~Dan – np: John Zorn – Nova Express 
RECIPE: Cute Olive Penguins
Cute Olive Penguins
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I made these olive penguins (with my wife’s help) for this evening’s Vegetarian Supper Club in Eugene, OR, as a fun appetizer when people came in. Hopefully they’ll be a hit! They were really fun to make.
Ingredients:
makes as many as desired
- medium black olives (the head)
- large black olives (the body)
- cream cheese or vegan cream cheese spread (for the stomach)
- narrow carrots, cut into small rounds (feet) with notch (for beak)
Steps:
- Cut carrots approximately 1/8 inch (3mm) thick… this will become the feet and beaks (just shy of 1/4 of the carrot slice is beak-size).
- Cut large olives down one side (length-wise) and then fill with a small amount of cream cheese.
- Assemble penguins with a toothpick like shown in the picture at the top of the page.
- Get crazy and start a penguin war with extra toothpicks and ketchup for penguin blood.
- OK, step 4 may be optional. Your call…
- Enjoy!
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This is a mainly music-based blog. If you stumbled in on a recipe search, check out my other recipes, like vegan biscuits & gravy, spiced biscotti, vegan cactus chili, vegan bananas foster, mushroom dumpling stew, strawberry cornbread muffins, fruit spring rolls, grilled coconut-rum pineapple, vegetarian s’mores pouches, pumpkin-infused vodka cocktail, and creamy vegan chocolate pudding at THIS LINK.
~Dan – np: Green Day – Nimrod
-Eyvind Kang
-Frank Zappa
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