5th
June 2014
Stay
positive. The world isn’t gonna get
better being negative about it.
Well as
if Thursday ain’t busy enough, life thought it would throw a hospital
appointment for mom in the middle of it – today’s going to be fun ;-) I am glad
it’s here though, this has all been going on since the end of last year so
maybe we’ll hear something today and mom can decide what next and only she can
decide that. Luckily I have the bestest
bestie who’s going to come and help me out so that I can be in two places at
once almost!
Speaking
of food! Oh we weren’t, oh well why not, it is a fabulous subject, but we’ll
start with me trying to log onto my credit card account online yesterday and
because I don’t do it very often and I have the memory of a goldfish, it wouldn’t
let me in, my security number was wrong and it locked me out, so I rang them to
reset the account and he had to ask me more security questions, where did I live
when I was ten (I just about remembered that one), what was my credit card
limit (I didn’t know so I guessed, I think I may have got that one right!), the
came the next one, “what’s your favourite food?” Well I was stumped, “are you joking! I eat for a living”, he informed me that I’d
chosen the question, so guessing I said “chips”, NOPE, “eggs”, NOPE, “mushrooms”
NOPE and now it’s locked you out of phone banking too unfortunately, he was a
smashing chap and he sorted me out in the end but I just found it hilarious
that I’d chose a question who’s answer would change possibly monthly, depending
on my mood, and now I’ll never know what answer I chose when I set up my
telephone banking ;-) I do know I’ll never use that question again. It was a comical ten minutes but because I
was nice and not raging about how difficult the system was, he was nice back
and we had a pleasant exchange. Mmm need
a new password system for sure!
And
more food, I had my stock delivery for the meetings yesterday and in it was
Tandoori marinade, you just throw in 2 chicken breasts leave for an hour and
then grill or barbeque, well I wanted to try it but I hadn’t got any chicken so
I used a bit of salmon, ooo nice, I would definitely recommend it!
I baked
yesterday morning too, so that was my good deed as my helpers all got to enjoy
a rock cake with their coffee, I’ve got to say my rock cakes are delicious;
Rock Cakes makes 13 at 4pp each or made with butter 5pp each
225g/8oz self-raising
flour (19pp)
75g/2½oz
caster sugar (8pp)
1 tsp
baking powder
125g/4½oz
low fat spread (14pp) or butter (27pp)
150g/5½oz
sultanas (12pp)
1
free-range egg (2pp)
1 tbsp
skimmed milk
2
tsp vanilla extract
Preheat
oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a baking tray with baking parchment. Mix
the flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl and rub in the low fat spread
until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, then mix in the dried fruit.
In a
clean bowl, beat the egg and milk together with the vanilla extract.
Add the
egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until the mixture just
comes together as a thick, lumpy dough. Add a teaspoon more milk if you really
need it to make the mixture stick together.
Place
golfball-sized spoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking tray. Leave space
between them as they will flatten and spread out to double their size during
baking.
Bake for
15-20 minutes, until golden-brown. Remove from the oven, allow to cool for a
couple of minutes, and then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool.
Sometimes
it’s worth the extra ProPoint because made with butter they are delicious!
Right I
better get a wriggle on, things to do, places to be and all that. It actually looks like it might not rain
today, that’ll be the first dry Thursday in a while – bonus!
Have a
great one BeYOUtiful.
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