Breaking Through, Travelling On

Watty1

Hurrah

beanielou

Good news on both fronts then :j

Karmacat

Karmacat wrote: »

[STRIKE]- I have to do the banking[/STRIKE]
- get the fogger ready to use tomorrow
- get an Adobe ID
[STRIKE]- take some stuff to the charity shop (I'm waiting to post the decluttering on here till I've done that, people will be astounded and amazed at my decluttering godliness :rotfl:)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- cook the beans I soaked yesterday[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- cook banana loaf [/STRIKE]

Ha! I'm a ninja today :rotfl:though I think I might need a sit down Banana cake, an easy one, is currently in the halogen oven, which I still think looks like the spaceship at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

DECLUTTERING
24 - 27 13 books
38 dvd
39 clipboard
40 waterproof jacket
41 1 bag office junk
42 cracked mug (I'd been using it as a paperweight )
43 many, many cluster flies :eek:
44 old pan, nonstick coating worn and unpleasant
45 worn out bedsox
46 bag of shredded security stuff
47 4" stack of A4 paper.

I've been emailing and scanning too, so as soon as the banana cake finishes cooking, I'm going to have a chat with Harry in the Chamber of Secrets.

Goldiegirl

Alchemilla wrote: »

Which village ?

I am a moonraker!

It's Ashton Keynes - it looks nice from the pictures that I've seen.




Great de-cluttering KC, I hope the charity shop were pleased


Say hello to Harry for me

Karmacat

Thanks Goldie! I said hi to Harry

Banana cake really wasn't great - I was a bit careless about detail (I often am ) and the result, hmm, how long does food poisoning take to show up? But there's only one egg, and it ended up being in the oven for about an hour ... texture was very sloppy, but surely its cooked enough to be safe? I quite like sloppy

Karmacat

I'm looking through writing jobs on elance, as my business partner's niece, living along the coast from us, makes a living doing that, so I know it can be done. She started off slowly, and raised her prices slowly, so I expect low wages, but some of them are horrendous - I think the worst was US$1 for 1,000 words plus! Rinse and repeat 20 times ...

I'm also going through Old Style on here looking for banana cake recipes

Watty1

KC I have a banana bread recipe - but - it doesn't use any sugar so might not appeal???

Karmacat

Watty! You star, I'm looking for exactly that, just been reading a thread about it. Its the thing that concerns me most about baking and preservation - so much sugar!

Yes please :j:j:j

Karmacat

Morning :hello:

Follow up I'm still looking forward to Watty's no-sugar recipe when she can find it, as it is a concern, but I sussed what was wrong with the banana cake - bad recipe! On comparing the others, the one I used had *half* the amount of flour that the rest of them had :eek: no wonder it was sloppy! It firmed up in the fridge, however and it tastes good

Tried to get an Adobe ID yesterday, its basically your email address that you register with them. Tried to get some ebooks out, but you have to input your library card no and its in my machine's memory, not in my head so that'll have to wait till I can find my card I must say, my library has the worst set of intro pages I've ever seen, set after set of non-information, its terrible. My council tax has been frozen since I moved here in 2010, so maybe thats one result

Um, not using the fogger today - I want to to work in the garden and then have a shower and wash my hair, which means trundling around upstairs where the poisonous neurotoxins would be, and I don't care if they don't affect mammals "very much", they're not going to affect me *at all*.

Carrying on scanning, am finding all sorts of interesting things :j for a course on couple counselling I had to draw a family tree of *my* family in terms of the emotional relationships! Quite thought provoking.

So, list for today:
- try to take out some library books.
- gardening
- springclean both me and my bathroom
- join elance and write my profile. Not really looking forward to that, but we'll see.
- download photos I've taken for the book, crop and size as appropriate, get going - there's so much work gone into that, its crazy not to finish it.

Watty1

No idea where this was originally from - but - its delish - the lack of sugar means it wont keep but I freeze it in slices if I'm not going to eat it all at once.
350 g ripe bananas
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
225 g butter or sunflower marg
275 g wholewheat flour
2 tsps. baking powder
1 tablespoon ground ginger
50 g desiccated coconut
50 g sunflower seeds


Mash bananas in a large mixing bowel until mushy and mix with eggs and vanilla. Melt butter and add to the banana mix. Place flour baking powder and ginger in a bowl. Add coconut and 25 g of the sunflower seeds and mix well. Gently fold in banana mixture. Line a 2lb (900 gm) loaf tin with greaseproof paper. Pour mix in. Sprinkle remaining sunflower seeds over top of mix (original says to toast under grill but have never bothered with that). Bake in centre of oven 350 F 180 C Gas 4 for one hour and 10 mins. Leave to stand for 5 mins before turning out.


Yummy! Especially cut into slices and spread with butter.