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!