Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 28: Calmly through the day

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IMG Math ....i think I need a lie down after your update 😅🤣🤣!

Just the swimming lessons and birthday parties was enough for me !!!

I caved earlier and took an ibuprofen....didn't want to as I have been taking quite a few over the past few weeks due to my back and then the Laryngitis....but ...oh my ...it worked !!

DS has told me . . there is a tendon /ligament that goes right across the hip bone ...so it makes sense that I pulled that when having my last coughing fit !

Hopefully....this is my run of 3 for now !

Now the pain has gone ....I have just realised how bad/painful/annoying it was 😮😞.

Tablets say ...take ,on a full stomach....so I had extra cake and biscuits to make sure 😁😁!

After an exhausting half term, I had a lie-in until 12.30pm.

I spent the day in my pyjams on a marathon eBay listing session, while my DH brought me food and entertained our DD.

In the evening I cooked smashed potatoes with sweetcorn, chorizo, red onion, and a honey dressing, then researched new front doors.

My dad, who has dementia, phoned me a total of 22 times to ask where his granny was. I told him she died 55 years ago. 22 times.

Lost a reply... 🤷‍♀️
Meantime: roast chicken, carrots, potatoes, onion and mushrooms cooked in Dutch oven over polenta.

Bizzey, here's my recipe

Banana Bread
1 medium bowl
1 large bowl
1 square cake tin greased and floured
Heat oven to 330f

In medium sized bowl:
2c all-purpose flour (I think you say "plain" flour)
1tbsp baking powder (not soda)
Sift together

In large bowl mix together in order:
Mash well 3 bananas (or enough to make 1 cup)
1c brown sugar (I use light brown/yellow sugar; white is fine, too)
3 eggs
1 tablespoon real vanilla extract
1/2 c melted butter

Add flour mix to banana mix slowly until combined and flour is absorbed but don't keep mixing or result will be tough and not light. Pour into prepared cake tin. Sprinkle granulated sugar over top for a sparkly, shiny and crunchy top. I don't measure, but I estimate 2-3 tablespoons.

Bake approx 75 mins and rotate pan for even baking at 40 mins.

other versions I make:
add 2/3c dark choc chips
and/or
add 1c chopped nuts (I usually use pecans)
Try: grind 1c nuts and mix into wet batter before flour( I just did this with walnuts + choc chips: heaven!!!)

Enjoy!
Please post your results!

Math, thanks for detailing logistics.

Since you and Helena have experience with more than 1, or 2, I figured you two would be good to ask! 😊

Penguinsa, I think someone started a thread about that series.

@Palindrone ...hello !
Well done on your rest.
Your food sounds lovely..

That must be exhausting with your dad ringing you all day 😞.

Is he at home alone ?

@Mumtobabyhavoc ...I am half way there !!

Who knew I had all these ingredients in my cupboard already 🤣🤣!

the little Bailey's bottle was a joke Christmas present from ds 1 ...

Baileys and chocolate sounds nice though doesn't it !

Unsure if you conversions from cups though .

Am I doing a 2/2 /4 ounces victoria sponge type thing ?

Ohhh forgot picture!

Where's it gone !?

Found it !!

Who would have known I have such a well stocked baking cupboard 🤣🤣🤣!!

Bizzey, I don't quite understand your question...
1c=240ml
1tbsp=15ml
(off the top of my head)

Does that help?

edited to add:
I see you mentioned ounces...
8oz/1c/240ml. Approx
1oz/33ml/a little less than 2 tbsps

Maybe I have misremembered?

4 flour
2 eggs
2 butter
2 sugar

In ounces .
(Not the eggs obviously!....hit and miss in them 🤣)

Bizzey, ohhhh I don't know that ratio, but don't try to sub it for my recipe. It does remind me of poundcake and why it is so named: 1lb flour, 1lb butter, 1lb eggs, 1lb sugar... modern recipes don't follow that, though.

Does my recipe make sense to you, though?

Bizzey, Just googled Victoria sponge and read through a BBC recipe. Measurements were by weights. Is that what you are used to? We typically measure by volume here in N. Am, but pros often use weight to be more precise. I have kitchen scales, but would have to convert another day for you.

I just use sight !!

But then I do get my metric and imperial muddled up sometimes 🤣

Our recipes are like this with weights but we can convert from North American ones and our ovens are Celsius and normally fan assisted but again we can convert. It'll be like a maths homework 🤣 c means cup Bizzey. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/fairy-cakes

Floof needs his tuna so is on my bedside table.

Penguinsa, thanks! Got it... we use Imperial and metric here to make things even more confusing. And often interchangeably. At the deli counter I'll order in grams, ie 500g of ham, please. In the produce section prices are in lbs with kg in small print; in the bulk section prices are in grams... oven temps are Fahrenheit. Weather is in Celsius (even though some people still convert Fahrenheit to make sense if the weather)and wind in kilometres per hour; speed on roads is kilometres; Christmas trees measured by feet fir height and short distances would be described by feet (the dog was about 29 feet away), but driving distanceor far my run was would be in kilometres.
I used my convetsion app: 330f = 165c. 🤓

Edit:
I know my height and weight in both feet&incges and pounds and metres, centimetres and kilos, too! 😂😂😂 On driver's licences and in hospitals etc it's metric, but everyone weighs themselves in imperial measurements. Ie the gym, mist home scale settings.

@bizzey
Keep up with the cake ibuprofen for a few days, no reason to be in pain

Thank you @Mumtobabyhavoc for your kind remarks. She was a complex character who could be very nice but her default was very toxic, however, we all got through it by remembering the good times! I do worry about her son. Now we have had the funeral and when he has a chance to draw breath, I think it will all suddenly hit him. And he will have an assortments emotions.

Death, we're a complicated lot as humans, aren't we? 🩷

@havoc. I've never seen oven temps. as anything other that Celsius. It confuses me when I see an American recipe say something like 425 degrees.

I'm finally getting my hair cut today. Sadly I kind of need it as I'll be going (I hope) to job interviews soon - my role is being made redundant at end of next week, although I might be able to go back into a different role in short order at the same place but I don't think any will be sorted before then. Luckily they don't have any rules against rejoining, but you just don't get the redundancy money, which is fair enough!