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I know. It’s another cake.

This Strawberry Almond Flour Cake is just too delicious (and interesting) to delay sharing. And, anyway, it is finally strawberry season here in Southern California. 

Interestingly, no wheat flour is involved here. It’s just almond flour and a small amount of coconut flour. 

This is a King Arthur Flour recipe. Here is the link to the original recipe: Strawberry Almond Flour Cake.

Here is how I made the cake in my kitchen. 

This recipe for Mediterranean Zucchini and Feta Fritters is from Yasmin Khan’s cookbook Ripe Figs. The book is available from your local bookstore or on Amazon here. Khan’s cookbook was a James Beard International Cookbook finalist and was included on The New York Times’ “Best Cookbook” list for 2021. In the introduction of the book, Khan describes her book as “a book about the resilience of the human spirit. And our capicity to endure the most unimaginable challenges and still find happiness in the smell of warm bread baking in an oven, a scoop to pistachio ice cream on a hot summer’s day, or a bowl of roasted pumpkin soup eaten by a roaring fire.”

Khan’s cookbook features recipes from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. She refers to these fritters as Turkish Mucver. They also are very similar to Greece’s renowned kolokithokeftedes. Take your pick. Either way they are delicious. 

This is a great recipe for this time of year as neighborhood vegetable gardens begin to burst with zucchini abundance.(By the way, zucchini is technically a fruit.)

If this recipe inspires you to seek out zucchini fitters, here is another excellent zucchini fritter recipe. This one incorporates carrots and can be found on Blue Cayenne here.

Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen. 

Now I have to get to work on that pistachio ice cream. 

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.”Here is a recipe for a beautiful Tortuga Rum Cake: Tortuga Rum Cake.

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