Yum, yum!

While trying to entice my daughter to eat something, I found a scrumptious recipe for Banana Bread. I would have included a photo of the loaf but we ate it all.

2 cups plain flour (or 1 cup plain and 1 cup wholewheat)

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup marg/butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 beaten eggs

2 1/2 cups ripe bananas (about 2 good sized bananas)

Cream sugar and marg.

Mix in eggs and bananas.

Sieve flour, soda and salt.

Mix flour into banana mixture. Mix well but do not over beat.

Put in greased loaf tin.

Bake in preheated oven at 175 C for about 1 hour.

It is a lovely moist cake/bread. You could add a little cinnamon, or some chopped walnuts to the mix for some variety.

Enjoy!

Stripey cotton.

There are never enough hours in the day but I have been following a crafty blog and it has convinced me to get my sewing machine out and do a little bit.

http://craftsinbloom.blogspot.com/2010/01/clothes-refashion.html

This is a fabric sampler that came from a shop via my mother-in-law. Some shops throw these away when they go out of date. Others are only to delighted when someone offers to fill their car boot and take them away for nothing (big grin).
Can you guess what it is yet? (australian accent)

Wish me luck finding the time to assemble this.

Crochet and Reefs

The crochet bug has bitten me. There is an exhibition in Dublin in March of a crocheted coral reef. There are several reasonings behind the logic of coral reefs, crochet, mathematics and organic communities, but leaving all that aside, it just tickled my fancy. These are my contributions to the reef. The white pieces are for the bleached coral reef. I did hope to try some plastic crochet but ran out of time.

Nothing to see here

I was going to put up some photos of such things as greenhouses, crocheted coral, cotton dresses and a small cute daughter this evening. Sadly, the signal is crappy so ye will have to wait.