Giant Crystal Caves

Because I saw this awhile ago in National Geographic and just thought it was really ridiculously cool. I want to walk in these caves...

Butterless Brownies

Have no butter? Fear not! you can still satisfy your brownie craving with vegetable oil! I've been trying to resist buying a new block of butter for the past week and a bit now knowing that the minute I do I'll start baking like a madwoman. However, today I overcame the barrier of having to BUY more butter by using vegetable oil instead! Oh it's a terrible terrible discovery indeed, now there is virtually nothing stopping me from making brownies whenever I want...
So I thought I'd share the doom with everyone! Here is the glorious recipe I found:

1/2C vegetable oil or melted butter
1C sugar (I might try brown sugar next time...)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2C all purpose flour
1/3C cocoa
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease a 9inch square pan and coat in cocoa.
mix oil and sugar in large bowl, add vanilla and eggs.
mix, in seperate bowl (which I never do and it works anyway), flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
sift (I never do this either and it works anyway) the dry ingredients into the wet gradually and mix thoroughly after each addition.
pour batter into baking pan.
bake for 20-25 mins or until brownies start to come away from the sides.
cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.

Ah today has been a very blog filled day. Check out the updated Lascaux Du Monde and this pretty little design blog I got stuck on for awhile. Anyways that's it, enjoy those brownies ;)

TOMATO