Baking Sunday

Following on from my last post about being an old lady I am currently sitting in the lounge wearing fleecy leopard print pjs trousers, a flowery vest top and a very fetching red and brown apron...or should I say pinny?  Pinny is more old ladyish I think, also it matches my oven gloves which I like....

Anyway I have been making a carrot cake.  I found a recipe for a cake on bbc good food website which I often use for recipes.  I ended up substituting half the ingredients for stuff that I had in the cupboards to save going back to the shops but I should think it's ok.
It's the first cake I've made with oil instead of butter, I don't know why, but this seems to be common with carrot cakes.  I will report back on the taste....it is cooling at the moment waiting for me to ice it with some icing made from satsuma juice and icing sugar...I would have used oranges but this was one of my substitutes!  One of my favourite things about carrot cake is the cream cheese frosting but I would have definitely had to go back to the shops for that, so the icing will have to do!

I am going to make a sunday roast later with chicken thighs.  I made this a couple of weeks ago and put the chicken on a grill over the roast potatoes so the fat dripped onto them.  They were delicious but very unhealthy I am sure!  I wish I didn't like cooking so much, I am going to make Mike and I ginormous at this rate!  Usually I make fairly healthy stuff, but the unhealthy stuff is so much tastier!

Old Lady

I have become an old lady...it's official.

No longer do I spend my saturdays waiting impatiently to be able to get ready to go clubbing...I am now waiting impatiently for Strictly Come Dancing and XFactor to start!  What a loser.  Although tonight is the first of the LIIIIVE SHOOOWS!!!  Loser.  I am excited though.

To be fair though I have got quite a lot planned over the next few weeks...and I did go out last Saturday...so perhaps I had better not start a pension just yet (Although perhaps I should as Mike has been paying into one for years!)

So, today all I have done is:

1)  Cook Mike a fry up...I was good and had one sausage with 2 poached eggs on toast with a grilled tomato.

2)  Got dressed (This is good going for me on the weekend when we don't do anything!)

3)  Walked to the shop to pick up some squash (ESSENTIAL) and some nurofen (also essential) ready for a probably hangover tomorrow after I have enjoyed a couple of bottles of wine with my saturday night old ladyness.  Not all to myself I am hoping Mike will help me out!  Also 2 big peaches from the green grocers.  This should probably be a separate post but the fruit and veg in the greengrocers is twice the size of the stuff available in supermarkets!  The 2 peaches cost me 88p so if I had bought 4 they would have been much cheaper than the punnet in tescos.  And bigger.  This is another example of something a 24 year old should not care about.


4)  Watch this space, I don't know what to do next.  There's still 3 hours until my programmes.  Hmm.

Tomato and mustard

Granary bread + sliced tomatoes + dijon mustard = My new sandwich filling! 

I was eating ham, tomato and mustard the other day but the ham was gristly and it makes me feel sick when I crunch a lump of gristle urgh it just puts me off.. So when I made sandwiches for lunch today I cut out the ham and am happy I did yumyum. 
Although I don't count calories, I do keep an eye on them, and without the meat in my sandwich I can afford to have a packet of salt and vinegar squares which I am eating now with my tomato and mustard sandwich.  A treat!  Although think it would be better for to have the ham instead!

Also, IT'S FRIIIIIIIIDDDDAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I might finish early as I have been coming in at 7.30am all week so have plenty of flexi time to spend....I shall see how my afternoon goes....lie in tomorrow!!
I don't know why I get excited about lie ins, I always wake up at 7.30ish and have to creep around so as not to wake Mike up but it's nice to have the choice whether to get out or bed or not!

3 Recent Things

God I am rubbish at remembering to write this!  Anyway the following things have happened since I last posted:

1)  We managed to get Glastonbury tickets!!!  Mike's phone found a loop hole where he was able to go back and book tickets for everyone in our group!  Otherwise NONE OF US would be going as nobody could get through using a computer.  It would have been a disaster because it's our annual thing, the same group of us go every year and to have some or all of the group missing would be a disaster! Scary!  But ok now woohoo can't wait for June!  Booked my leave yesterday and now on the countdown :) :)

2)  I have finally bought some proper running shoes!  The shop made me run on a treadmill and filmed my feet as I ran to see how they landed.  Turns out they land straight so I have a neutral foot so I tried on 4 pairs of trainers and went with the first ones as they felt just like slippers when I put them on.  I have run in them twice and they are very comfy.  The big test will be a long run this weekend (My last before the race!)

3)  I have FINALLY sorted my hair out!  The hairdresser stripped out the black and then dyed over it in a golden brown to match my (large) roots so now I have my natural colour back...I think...it has been a long time since I have seen it!  Anyway that cost a small fortune and I got conned in to buying some special shampoo and conditioner because all normal shampoo and conditioner has the dreaded SULPHATES in them.  Sulphates (du-du-duuur!!!) is a cleansing agent used in most shampoos/showergels etc which will apparently will make my colour fade very quickly and this is bad cos my hair is orange underneath the dye from the stripper so my brown will soon become brassy and I will have to go back and have it dyed again.  Which you would think they would want cos they they get more money??  But perhaps they know I will have to go back soon anyway?!  Hmmm I think I was conned, but at least the shampoo smells nice.