Travelling On

Karmacat

Good morning lovely peeps a very slow start for me today, but a big ta-da, I managed to write 3 emails that I "owed" to people (ie wanted to send, but hadn't).  That feels very good.  Breaking for lunch now, then get a little bit of time outside, and I'm definitely hankering after some genealogy research.  And Jamie Oliver's easy cook chocolate bake 

beanielou

Well done on the emails.

Karmacat

Thanks beanie   I had a great afternoon with the genealogy work too - weirdly, it felt like I was on holiday I want to do an oral history interview with the elderly rellie up in Yorkshire, and I can't until I have all my ducks in a row with the information I've already got about that part of the family.  

Nice little local walk today with my sister, we went to see the lambs at the miniature farm run by the local school.  No calves yet.  Taking another break today, all I'm going to do is make sure I can eat and wear warm clothes.

greent

Coconut is nice in sort of flapjacks- I also include mashed banana and some sort of dried fruit too (whatever is out of date the most, usually! 🤦‍♀️😄)

themadvix

greent said:

Coconut is nice in sort of flapjacks- I also include mashed banana and some sort of dried fruit too (whatever is out of date the most, usually! 🤦‍♀️😄)

So glad it's not just me that uses this approach! 😂

Karmacat

I certainly use that approach  and ooh, what a good idea!  I could also lower the amount of oats slightly: I don't have any problems with out of date oats ) and increase ground almonds.  Or sesame seeds.  Thank you greent!

I relaxed again yesterday - sitting out with the sun on my face after meeting up with my sister, and continuing with the one family I'm updating in my genealogy notes.  Today, I think a couple of emails begging off contact till I feel better, get a nice flapjack recipe, and a bit more genealogy.  There's one piece of gardening I really need to do: there are two 2 year old ash seedlings I need to kill one is in the middle of my front yard, right by the gate, and the other is in the middle of my oregano plant.  I'm going to have to use herbicide  

Karmacat

Victory is mine for the coconut recipe I decided to explore stuff I'd already downloaded rather than fresh interwebulator searching.  I came up with something I downloaded at the end of May 2017 "afternoon snack bars", somebody's tried out a Nigella recipe on here, then posted how and why they changed/simplified it.  I'm sure it's from mse if it works, I'll post the thing.

Karmacat

Victory is *sort* of mine  the quantities of the recipe were absolutely huge, and I substituted some dates in favour of some dessicated coconut.  So I have a *lot* of snack bars now.  The recipe is 325g dates/coconut, 250g seeds (reduced to 200g ground almonds), 50g cocoa, 125g flour instead of oats, 325ml water, which I increased by 50ml, and 2tsp cinnamon.  It's not sweet, thankfully, but nor is it particularly tangy, it needs a lot more spice.  But if I needed to bake something fairly nutritious and dense, this is what I'd use I've also discovered how greaseproof paper makes things about 500% easier, I'm a convert.  Loving it.  

rtandon27

Karmacat said:

...I've also discovered how greaseproof paper makes things about 500% easier, I'm a convert.  Loving it.  

OH is also a HUGE fan of greaseproof, he's ditched the foil completely these days when he cooks.  Which makes me quite happy from an environmental perspective, not that I'm going to mention that aspect to him 😉 anytime soon!

Karmacat

That's good!  I never use foil to cook with, it's aluminium after all, and I threw out my aluminium pans 20 years ago, at least - I'm not letting hot aluminium near food I cook at home.  It's good environmentally and healthwise - if you don't use *something* the scrubbing that needs to be done is just horrendous.