I baked again this morning. We had some old bananas in the fridge that looked like they wanted to be made into something yummy, so I made banana bread. This time I added walnuts and holy dooley! This is the best banana bread I have ever made!!
In case you are feeling bakey yourself, here is the recipe:
2 mushy bananas
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup sifted self raising flour
pinch of salt
Mash up the bananas with the back of a fork and mix in the golden syrup and sugar. Crack in the egg and add the sifted flour and salt, then gently mix everything together.
Pop into a loaf tin and cook in a preheated oven (180 degrees) for 30 - 35 minutes or until you can skewer it and the skewer comes out clean.
These are the basic ingredients, but you can experiment and add what ever tickles your fancy. Blueberries, walnuts and chocolate are great! Mix them in with the other ingredients just before you transfer the mix into the loaf tin.
In other news, my new hiking boots ate my feet on the weekend. Ben and I drove to his parents holiday house in Pukawa on Friday after I finished work and were joined by Phil and his friend Rich on Saturday afternoon. We planned to get up ridiculously early on Sunday morning to climb Mt Tongariro but thanks to a late night and much alcohol the night before, there was a last minute change of plans. Instead it was decided that we would go to the top of Mt Ruapehu instead. So we dragged our tired arses out of the house and up the mountain only to find that we were a good hour too early for the chair lifts (that take you most of the way to the top - something like 2,797m high). Another change of plans and we were on a track walking to the Tama Lakes.
Almost immediately after lacing up my new boots my left foot went numb. I thought this might get better after walking for a while and unfortunately it did, for once I regained feeling in my foot I could feel the blisters forming!! Bloody ouch! We were walking for about five hours and I was in a good amount of pain for at least four. It was a beautiful walk though, and I am very grateful to Ben for pulling me up the hills.
We had another walk planned this weekend which we probably aren't going to be doing now. We were going to be tramping around Mt Taranaki, a four day hike. Thanks to a dodgy looking weather forecast and some monster blisters on both of my heels and pinky toes this has been called off. I suggested the movies or horse riding instead but Ben and Phil don't sound too keen on either of these ideas.
I am back in two weeks from today! I am most excited about this. Can't wait to see everyone and Bundy and Myf. My subject outlines for uni have been posted online and I have been wetting my pants in anticipation for the 28th February when I can start studying. I think this makes me a nerd.
I think that's all for now. A couple of new photographs of things we've done will be up as of about three minutes from now, so have a geez if you want - www.flickr.com/photos/imasmellywombat.
Love you my lovers.
xxx
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