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The Girl Can't Cook contains 250 no-fail recipes readers will actually want to make. After-work supper ideas include Thai Chicken and Noodle Salad, Salmon Steak on the Barbie, and Potato and Egg Frittata. The book also features easy party menus such as The Big Holiday Dinner with turkey and all the trimmings, Vegetarian Feast, and Summer Barbecue. Along with quick and easy recipes such as Pita Pizzas with Pesto and Parmigiano, and Guacamole, Cinda Chavich also provides a complete guide to stocking your pantry with great cheeses, oils, vinegars, and seasonings. A perfect gift for the young-and-not-so-culinarily-inclined, The Girl Can't Cook is the cookbook for fabulous kitchen goddesses in training everywhere.

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The Girl Can't Cook: 250 Fabulous No-Fail Recipes a Girl Can't Be Without

Authors: Cinda Chavich

Date: June 2004

ISBN: 1552855260

Publisher: Whitecap Books

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Meal in a Muffin
Recipe from: The Girl Can't Cook
by Cinda Chavich
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Sometimes there’s only time for coffee and a muffin but this is a healthy one - low in fat, high in fiber, am tough enough to toss into your briefcase or backpack. A survival snack. Use the food processor with the grating disc to grate the carrots and apples (or use Girl power and a basic box grater).

Makes about 18 muffins

1 cup (250 mL) all-purpose flour
1 cup (250 mL) whole-wheat flour
1 cup (250 mL) chopped dates, cut into small pieces
3/4 cup (175 mL) brown sugar
1 Tbsp. (15 mL) ground cinnamon
1 tsp. (5 mL) ground nutmeg
2 tsp. (io mL) baking soda
2 tsp. (2 mL) salt
3/4 cup (175 mL) chopped pecans or slivered almonds
2 eggs
1 egg white
2/3 cup (150 mL) plain, nonfat yogurt
2 tsp. (10 mL) pure vanilla extract
3 cups (750 mL) grated carrots
1 cup (250 mL) grated apple

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180C).

In a large bowl, mix together the all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, dates, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, salt and pecans or almonds.

In another bowl, whisk the eggs, egg white, yogurt and vanilla together until smooth. Pour into the dry ingredients and stir with a fork until just barely combined (a few lumps are okay in muffins). Fold in the grated carrot and apple.

Grease a muffin tin or line it with paper cups (this makes removing the muffins extra easy). Spoon the batter into the cups - they should be about 3/4 full. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the tops are firm and a skewer inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

Girl talk:
Dates can be sticky and tough to chop - use your kitchen shears to snip them into usable bits.

The banana is a great fruit until it turns on you - turns black and overripe, that is. The Girl consigns her blackened bananas to the freezer. Peeled and frozen in plastic bags, they’re perfect to pull out for a smoothie and they make awesome banana bread (that really dark and delicious kind.)

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