NEW WEEK! RAIN! SPRING MAYBE SPRINGING (includes recipe)

Weekly posts are getting too long and as I don't tend to cook at weekends anyway it does seem a bit pointless to wait a week.  Plus if I do a quick daily, I can include a recipe if I think it deserves one.

So today; weather is awful!  Raining, dull, miserable and not really making me want to go out and about.  So I stayed in and did the housework instead; catching up with washing, dusting and sweeping.  Oh and writing up this of course and last week's, haha.

This week's box delivery

I have tried to be a bit more organised this week by going through some recipe books and ordering just what I needed to get me through the week, so ordered individual items rather than a random box. I still have a couple of beetroots, half a red cabbage, a celery, some mushrooms and some tomatoes leftover from last week so will use those up somewhere along the line.

Planning on using up the slow cooked boar with veggies from yesterday and turning it into a shepherd's pie type dish tonight so all I need to do is some mashed potato and I'll serve it with the kale from the box.

First bulb of the season

Spring may seem a long way off with regard to the weather but this little beauty popped it's head out over the weekend and another one looks like it's on its way so, hopefully, it isn't that far off.


SON'S FAVOURITE BANANA BREAD

200g plain flour (obviously I use my grass free mix, but you can use anything you like)
2 heaped tsp baking powder (gluten free of course)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon (although I tend not to measure this out and you could replace with mixed spice)
75g butter/marg
115g caster sugar
3 ripe bananas, mashed (I tend to wait until they are beginning to go black and aren't really suitable for eating as is)
2 eggs, beaten.

Preheat oven to 180C/Gas 4
Grease and flour an 8.5 x 4.5inch (21 x 11cm) loaf tin.

Mash the bananas in one bowl.

Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon into another bowl then add the butter/marg and eggs; beat until combined.

Fold in the bananas and spoon into the loaf tin.

Bake for 50mins or until skewer/knife comes out clean.  Cool for 5 mins and turn out onto a wire rack to completely cool before eating.

This is rather nice slightly warm with butter :-)