Friday, 24 September 2021
My favourite toy
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Channelling my inner Greta Thunberg
- Change building regulations so that all new builds have the latest version of photovoltaic cells on their roof (which are 3x more efficient than the originals). Every new house should also be built with a small S-shaped wind turbine, while blocks of flats/offices and business parks should have at least one large wind turbine. All new builds need to have off-street parking - say, one space per bedroom - with vehicle recharging points incorporated therein.
- All Government paper products should be made from recycled paper, whether it’s toilet paper purchased for use in a hospital or a leaflet to be distributed to the general population. Lead by example.
- Government procurement has long been driven by price. Instead, the first factor to consider should be carbon footprint. If xx costs a few pence more but is made locally, then that should be purchased instead of shipping it in from China.
- Ban the use of insecticides on state-owned land. Organic practices only. (I will permit weed-killers because some invasive species of weed just won’t die without them.)
- Invest in hydrogen technology and have all Government vehicles hydrogen powered. Batteries can’t power everything and their creation/recycling generates a massive amount of pollution. Battery powered lorries/trucks are impractical (very heavy) and battery powered vehicles can’t tow.
- Ban the shipping of recycling abroad. Specifically plastics should be recycled “in country”. Many British councils ship their plastic recycling abroad, where it is found years later, breaking down on a rubbish dump somewhere and hasn’t been recycled. This is a waste of resources, waste of shipping miles and creates another type of pollution problem..
- Where available, I buy recycled paper products (toilet paper, kitchen towel). Everyone should. Save virgin paper for books.
- I’ll wash and re-use the plastic bags that bread/bagels comes in, before eventually recycling them.
- Most of my clothes are bought to last, making me a follower of “slow fashion” and they get worn to death. I look for classic designs, made from natural fibres. (Today, I’m wearing hand knitted socks, a pair of jeans bought in 2018, a t-shirt purchased in 2003 and a cashmere cardigan purchased in 2019. My bra is 5 or 6 years old and my knickers about the same.)
- When I can buy clothing secondhand, I will. Three of my work suits come from charity shops, as do several t-shirts and my sheepskin jacket. (I nearly bought another suit from a charity shop yesterday but the jacket was too tight.)
- When I do buy new clothes, where possible I buy natural fibres and wear those clothes until they die. (I’d rather be considered classic than fashionable.)
- Make the best of what I have for as long as it lasts. For example, my iPhone is 5 years old. I won’t consider changing it until Apple stop updating the IOS. Why should I? It does everything that I want it to do and, last night, updated to IOS 15, guaranteeing me at least another year of use.
- Buy smart. I don’t buy something because it’s the latest widget; I buy it because it fulfils multiple purposes and does exactly what I want. This saves money as well as resources. It doesn’t matter if it’s clothes, a kitchen widgets or IT kit. If it doesn’t do what you want it to do, you’ll never use it and/or you end up replacing it three times.
- Years before electric vehicles were readily available, I went for a car that was fuel efficient, had good build quality and a low carbon footprint. (When Lucky dies, he’ll probably be replaced by a hybrid. Meanwhile, I’ll keep him running for as long as possible. Pollution isn’t just about carbon; it’s about the other components he’s made from, too.)
- With the exception of weed killer, I garden organically. (I’ll only use weed killer if the weed burner fails.)
- Buy local. Consider where something is grown and/or where it’s made. Most of the yarn I’ve purchased over the last 10 years was grown and spun in the UK. Prior to the Pandemic, my veg came from a local farmer’s farm shop. He also sold me eggs from his mate’s farm, about 5 miles away. (Sadly, they closed due to the Pandemic.)
- Grow/make your own. Not only will you appreciate it more, it cuts the carbon footprint. There is nothing nicer than a just-harvested potato.
- Avoid buying food that is heavily processed. Not only will your body thank you; all those “e-numbers” are chemical additives that have to be manufactured.
- If you eat meat, then eat the whole animal, offal included. Anything less is wasteful. There is more to a chicken than just chicken breast fillets! Don’t like liver? Do you eat pate? Well, that’s liver. Get over it. Personally, I love Haggis but many people shy away from it because it’s made from offal. They’ll eat that offal when it’s in boring, supermarket sausages, but not in something as nice as Haggis.
- Do the passive things that will cut your carbon footprint. Compost your vegetable peelings and grass cuttings. Wash your laundry in cold water and air dry it. (We do. We don’t own a dryer.). Walk to the shops, instead of driving. (We walk the 1.5 miles to our local Lidl and lug our shopping home in backpacks.). Use public transport where practical. (Nobody in their right mind would drive into central London.)
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Finished Frankensocks
You can see that they’re related. The third sock yarn, used on the feet, was from these socks:
- Pip
Monday, 30 August 2021
Frankensocks
Anyway, I had 20g left of the blue and 35g of the grey. I’ve been itching to use it up. My standard socks use 63g-65g of 4-ply. Since I only had 55g, I thought that, if I shortened the leg by 15 rows, did the cuffs, heels and toes in the grey, then alternated between the two colours row-by-row, I should have enough to make another pair of socks. I’ve just started the toe of the first sock. It’s not gone according to plan. I began getting worried about the quantity of the blue, so stopped using it 15 rows into the gusset. (There’s 10g left.) Ten rows into the foot, I started panicking about the grey...
Rummaging through the stash, I found the unlabelled end of another grey/black/white shaded sock yarn - maybe 5g - and alternated rows with that for 24 rounds. I think I’ve got enough to do the same on the second sock, but I won’t know for certain until I finish the toe on the first one and can weigh everything.
Wish me luck.
- Pip (Hopefully I’ll be able to share photos at some point.)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Pumpkin Bread
Do you think that I could find the recipe mentioned earlier? No. These jars remained unopened, in the pantry, for years. Fast forward to the end of last year when, in a fit of inspiration, I decided to search the internet again for a pumpkin bread recipe. On someone’s blog, I found a picture of a recipe, cut from an ancient magazine. Oddly, they didn’t give directions, just the photo.
(Sadly, while I saved a copy of the photo, I didn’t make a note of whose blog or I’d credit them.)
1 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 tablespoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
- The day before, prepare your butternut squash:-
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Cut it in half lengthwise. DO NOT PEEL.
- Scoop out the seeds and discard them.
- Place the squash, cut side down, onto a baking tray and bake for an hour.
- Allow to cool before removing from the tray.
- Once cold, use a spoon to scoop out the pulp. Deposit it into a bowl and weigh it. The original recipe requires a 440g can, but I’ve made it with 450g, 350g and with 530g of pulp. All three versions have been successful.
- Preheat the oven to 180C. Line two loaf pans with baking paper..
- In a food processor or blender, combine the sugar, the oil and the eggs. Blend.
- Add the pumpkin pulp and process until combined. (It may be a bit grainy. That’s OK.)
- Finally, add the remaining ingredients and process until smooth.
- Divide the mixture evenly between two lined loaf pans and bake for 65-75 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Once cooked, remove the two loaves from the loaf pans and cool on a cake rack.
- If you are freezing a loaf, leave it in its baking paper, slide it into a freezer bag, seal and freeze.
Saturday, 20 March 2021
Lockdown 2020 - a year on....
It's a year on Tuesday (23rd March), since Britain first went into full Lockdown in the fight against COVID-19. The television is full of it this morning, which got me thinking... What have I done differently, since we went into Lockdown? There are a lot of things that I did before, that many people have adopted during this time (cooking from scratch, baking, knitting, etc), but here are a few things that I do now, that I didn't habitually do before Lockdown:-
- Regularly walking to L!dl. Our local branch is 1.5 miles away and it's become our primary grocery shop. We walk there about once a week to buy toiletries, dairy products and fresh veg. (Prior to Lockdown, we bought our fresh veg and eggs from a farm shop 5 miles away and split our supermarket shopping between MrT's and L!dl, driving to both. The first casualty of Lockdown was the farm shop - they are in the middle of a National Trust property and were forced to close when the "big house" closed. They haven't reopened.)
- Buy the Sunday paper from the local branch of the C0-0p. Again, this is a walk, whereas previously we'd drive to MrT's.
- Going for a walk "after work" every evening. We've both been working from home since Lockdown started. This is the only way to get that mental space between work-life and home-life, which we'd normally get from a commute. Another plus side is that, unlike many people, I haven't put on weight.
- As you may have gathered, I'm not doing a lot of driving now. The money that I've saved by not buying a tank of diesel every week is going into the "Car Account" instead, to be spent on services, insurance, road tax and the inevitable replacement car.
- Use my "morning commute" time to exercise. Rather than get up later, now that I'm working from home - which might upset DH's daily routine - I use that time to exercise. I've done the Couch-to-5K and now run 3 times a week. On the other 2 mornings, I do some yoga stretches and I've started doing a bit of weight training.
- Learned French via Duolingo. (It's free.) Today is day 296 of my current streak of lessons. I'm spending less than 10 minutes a day and have learned considerably more words than I did in four years of French at high school. I'm not sure I can string a sentence together and I doubt I'd understand if my French colleagues started talking in their native tongue, but I know far more than I did.
What about you? What are you doing differently since you went into Lockdown?
- Pip
Sunday, 7 February 2021
It’s all about getting the biggest bang for your buck
How’re is your February going? Are you coping with the bad weather, the never-ending Lockdown and the inevitable tightening of belts? I’ve always found February to be a tougher month, financially, than January. In January, you run out of cash early because you were paid before Christmas and end up in debt/overdue on payments; February is when those debts have to be paid back. (You may remember me mentioning that tough February 30 years ago, when Dumbo left me with little more £20 to get through the month. It was the inspiration for several years of the “£50 February Challenge”.)
We went to the Butchers’ yesterday, spending £55.70 from the Meat Fund. Since our meat shopping is all about getting the biggest bang for our buck, I thought I’d share what we bought, what the plans are for it and how many portions we’ll get. The butcher doesn’t do an itemised bill, so I’m only recording prices where I saw them and can remember them. Remember, there’s only two of us in this household.
- 1 large roasting chicken - £7.99 - dinner tonight (we’ll eat the legs), chicken fajitas on Tuesday and chicken risotto on Wednesday. That’s at least 10 portions, plus stock.
- 1kg minced beef - at least 16 portions when padded out with veg, lentils/beans, etc
- 1 rolled, stuffed, boned breast of lamb 1.2kg - £13.60 - minimum of 4 portions of roast lamb. The butcher cut it in half for us, so we have two roasts.
- 8 chicken breasts, average weight 200g each - between 16 to 32 portions, depending on whether I double up in a recipe. I usually only use one in a stir fry or chicken pasta dish that serves 4.
- 8 large chicken thighs - 8 portions of chicken tray bake.
- 4 pork chops - two will definitely be served as chops, while the other two may get chopped up to make pork-and-beans and a stir-fry. Either 4 or 10 portions, depending on the outcome.
That’s between 54 and 80 portions of meat-based meals. As I said, it’s all about getting the biggest bang for our meat-buck.
With the exception of tonight’s roasting chicken, I have just finished shoehorning it all into the freezer. Everything has been “bagged and tagged”. I had to do it in stages to maximise space/freeze things in shapes that will stack and fit together, especially since the freezer was pretty full already with lunchboxes, tubs of soup/cooked pulses/homemade ready meals and sauces, not to mention the haggis that threatens to leap out at you... The mince was divided into 4 and carefully stuffed into freezer box to form 4 rectangles. The chicken breasts and chops were bagged separately and frozen to be as flat as possible. The chicken thighs were bagged in fours, while the lamb was stood on its end, to freeze upright.
As you can see, once again, I win at freezer Tetris.
- Pam
Thursday, 31 December 2020
SitRep 2020: Review of the Year
- Knit 20 balls of yarn (that's between 3 & 5 jumpers worth). 41/20 - I finished the jumper I was knitting (5 balls), completed the next one (finished on 13 balls), finished the third (8 balls), fourth (9 balls) and fifth (9 balls). Also completed are three pairs of socks.
- 20 minutes a day learning French (via Duolingo and TinyCards) for 20 weeks. 31/20 weeks. Absolutely smashed this, thanks to Duolingo.
- 20 minutes exercise a day for 20 weeks. Walking 30 weeks, weight training 5 weeks, running 20 weeks.
- Read 20 books. 6/20. These are listed In the sidebar on the right..
- Try 20 new dinner recipes. 5/20. I am a cook! How can this be so difficult to achieve? I’ve made Chicken a la King, a chicken tray bake from New Idea and Lidl’s Mediterranean Meatball Bake, Slow-cooker barbecued pork, Lamb Moussaka.
- 20 gardening sessions. 14 proper ones plus a couple of minutes mucking around with seeds.
- Explore 20 new places 7/20 - the cathedral at Bayeux, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester city centre, Cheltenham city centre, Great Witcombe Roman Villa, Painswick Rococo Garden, some of the back streets near home.
- Attend 20 "shows" (concerts/plays/films/BBC recordings/exhibitions) 3/20 - Frank Skinner’s “Showbiz”. The News Quiz. The Troy exhibition at the British Museum, Chelsea vs Leeds (after Lockdown).
- Do the 2020 Fashion On The Ration Challenge and keep within the coupon count. 60/66 coupons used. These are listed in the sidebar on the right.
- Phone family/friends to chat 20 times (I'm hopeless on the phone). 20/20.
- Lose 20lbs. 10/20. (To be honest, I’m just glad I haven’t put any weight on given the “Covid Calories” everyone is eating.)
- Mend 20 items of clothing (yes, that includes sewing on buttons and taking up hems) 3/20 - hemmed trousers from a suit purchased in 2018 (I’d only worn the skirt and jacket, not the trousers). Mended the pockets of a different suit jacket, bringing that suit back into rotation. Repaired the pockets on DH’s shorts.
- Declutter 20 items.
- Run 20 miles (but not all at once) 20 miles (started running again on 13.7.20 - doing couch-to-5K).
- Save 20 x £20 out of my “allowance”(£400) £400/£400
- Make 20 site visits for work, earning mileage 20 times (it goes to the car fund). 29/20.
- Write 20 blog posts. 25/20
- Log 10,000 steps on my Fitbit on 20 or more days (harder to do than it sounds). 37/20: 11.1.20 10505 steps, 22.2.20 10603 steps, 7.3.20 13527 steps, 21.4.20 10524 steps, 3.5.20 11,196 steps, 4.5.20 13,956 steps, 17.5.20 14,066 steps, 18.5.20 15,046 steps, 19.5.20 11,567 steps, 30.5.10 10,079 steps, 31.5.20 11,160 steps, 13.7.20 11.287 steps, 18.7.20 15,001 steps, 20.7.20 10,005 steps, 22.7.20 14,830 steps, 16.8.20 10,954 steps, 17.8.20 10,952 steps, 24.8.20 11,823 steps, 26.8.20 11,402 steps, 2.9.20 10,757 steps, 7.9.20 10,714 steps, 13.9.20 10,604 steps, 18.9.20 10,946 steps, 20/9/20 11,653 steps, 21/9/20 11,374 steps, 23/9/20 10,069 steps, t5.10.20 10,355 steps, 6.10.20 13,074 steps, 9.10.20 11,012 steps, 11.10.20 10,301 steps, 18.10.20 16,786 steps, 20.10.20 16,212 steps, 21.10.20 10,341 steps, 22.10.20 11,729 steps, 23.10.20 10,298 steps, 6.11.20 10,366 steps, 11.11.20 10,100 steps, 12.12.20 11,181 steps, 30.12.20 10,061 steps.
Have a party in the summer and invite at least 20 friends.Do singing exercises for 20 weeks to rebuild my voice. 2/20.- Watch at least 20 programs that have been on the DVR since 2018. 14/20.
Friday, 16 October 2020
Lightbulbs
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Looking for the silver lining
Saturday, 12 September 2020
What did you achieve during Lockdown?
- Knitted three jumpers and started my fourth.
- Completed 109 days straight of Duolingo French and learned more in those 108 days than I did in 4 years of high school French.
- Decreased my podcast queue from 357 to under 180, even though between 12 and 15 new podcasts are added each week by the podcasts to which I'm subscribed.
- Become a runner again. In July, I dusted off the Couch to 5K app and started running most mornings. I've had to repeat a couple of weeks because I was really unfit, but that's OK. I'm now running more than I'm walking, and I'm happy with that.
- Published 9 recipes. At the start of Lockdown, I set myself the goal of putting my cheapest recipes online, so that those struggling financially could find and use them. While some of my recipes were already on the blog, I've added others that are really cheap to make. There's also been a couple of cake recipes.
- Finally finished the sock I started knitting in February and am part of the way through it's pair.
- Grown and harvested 8 bulbs of garlic, 3.2kg of potatoes (with more to follow), multiple courgettes, a dozen pak choi, a forest of mutant carrots and a handful of broad beans. (What can I say? We planted out 6 broad bean plants but they just didn't deliver.) There are still 5 heavily laden tomato plants to harvest - the tomatoes are only just starting to turn red - and, maybe, a dozen red or yellow peppers to follow.
- Harvested two huge batches of rose hips and made 10 jars of Rose Hip Jelly.
- Harvested enough sloes - 541g - to make one bottle of sloe gin. These are from one bush from the tangle of plants at the end of the street, which fell over in August's high winds but has managed to stay alive. Until it collapsed onto the pavement, I never knew it was there.
- Knit 20 balls of yarn (that's between 3 & 5 jumpers worth). 28/20 - I finished the jumper I was knitting (5 balls), completed the next one (finished on 13 balls), finished the third (8 balls), commenced the fourth (1 ball) and lined up the fifth. Sadly, I have still only clocked up one complete pair of socks this year (ending a ball of yarn in the process).
- 20 minutes a day learning French (via Duolingo and TinyCards) for 20 weeks. 16/20 weeks.
- 20 minutes exercise a day for 20 weeks. Walking 22 weeks, weight training 5 weeks, running 8 weeks.
- Read 20 books. 6/20. These are listed In the sidebar on the right..
- Try 20 new dinner recipes. 5/20. I am a cook! How can this be so difficult to achieve? I’ve made Chicken a la King, a chicken tray bake from New Idea and Lidl’s Mediterranean Meatball Bake, Slow-cooker barbecued pork, Lamb Moussaka.
- 20 gardening sessions. 10 proper ones so far plus a couple of minutes mucking around with seeds.
- Explore 20 new places 1/20 - the cathedral at Bayeux.
- Attend 20 "shows" (concerts/plays/films/BBC recordings/exhibitions) 3/20 - Frank Skinner’s “Showbiz”. The News Quiz. The Troy exhibition at the British Museum.
- Do the 2020 Fashion On The Ration Challenge and keep within the coupon count. 40/66 coupons used. These are listed in the sidebar on the right.
- Phone family/friends to chat 20 times (I'm hopeless on the phone). 14/20.
- Lose 20lbs. 8/20. (To be honest, I’m just glad I haven’t put any weight on given the “Covid Calories” everyone is eating.)
- Mend 20 items of clothing (yes, that includes sewing on buttons and taking up hems) 3/20 - hemmed trousers from a suit purchased in 2018 (I’d only worn the skirt and jacket, not the trousers). Mended the pockets of a different suit jacket, bringing that suit back into rotation. Repaired the pockets on DH’s shorts.
- Declutter 20 items.
- Run 20 miles (but not all at once) 1 mile (started running again on 13.7.20 - doing couch-to-5K).
- Save 20 x £20 out of my “allowance”(£400) £400/£400
- Make 20 site visits for work, earning mileage 20 times (it goes to the car fund). 29/20.
- Write 20 blog posts. 24/20
- Log 10,000 steps on my Fitbit on 20 or more days (harder to do than it sounds). 20/20: 11.1.20 10505 steps, 22.2.20 10603 steps, 7.3.20 13527 steps, 21.4.20 10524 steps, 3.5.20 11,196 steps, 4.5.20 13,956 steps, 17.5.20 14,066 steps, 18.5.20 15,046 steps, 19.5.20 11,567 steps, 30.5.10 10,079 steps, 31.5.20 11,160 steps, 13.7.20 11.287 steps, 18.7.20 15,001 steps, 20.7.20 10,005 steps, 22.7.20 14,830 steps, 16.8.20 10,954 steps, 17.8.20 10,952 steps, 24.8.20 11,823 steps, 26.8.20 11,402 steps, 2.9.20 10,757 steps, 7.9.20 10,714 steps.
Have a party in the summer and invite at least 20 friends.Do singing exercises for 20 weeks to rebuild my voice. 2/20.- Watch at least 20 programs that have been on the DVR since 2018. 11/20.
Saturday, 22 August 2020
The little things add up
Thursday, 13 August 2020
The Joy of Stash

It’s lovely, but the smallest size calls for at least one ball more yarn than I have in either colour and my size probably needs two. (I never had a plan for the Macadamia.). Finally, last week, I accepted that I would never make this cardigan in that yarn. I did a pattern search on Ravelry: must be a sweater; in worsted weight yarn; require between 1,000m and 1,200m; and the pattern had to already be in my library. It turned up Trott (aka Carmine) from issue 25 of The Knitter, which will be perfect for the Red Bud
Another search turned up something for the Macadamia: the Interlacement Sweater, a free pattern from Universal Yarns. I’ve never had a jumper lined up for that before.

On 4.5mm needles, both jumpers should go quite fast, much faster than the 4-ply jumpers I’ve knitted recently. Hopefully, I’ll get both of them done by Christmas. Finally, two solutions for yarn that has been hanging around in the stash since July 2011.
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
SitRep: June update
- Knit 20 balls of yarn (that's between 3 & 5 jumpers worth). 20/20 - I finished the jumper I was knitting (5 balls), completed the next one (finished on 13 balls), started a third (currently 1 ball down) and have still only clocked up one pair of socks this year (ending a ball of yarn in the process).
- 20 minutes a day learning French (via Duolingo and TinyCards) for 20 weeks. 5/20 weeks.
- 20 minutes exercise a day for 20 weeks. Walking 15 weeks, weight training 4 weeks.
- Read 20 books. 5/20. These are listed In the sidebar on the right. The most recent books: This Golden Fleece, finished while sitting on the patio in the warm June sunshine and Not Quite Mastering the Art of French Living.
- Try 20 new dinner recipes. 3/20. I am a cook! How can this be so difficult to achieve? I’ve made Chicken a la King, a chicken tray bake from New Idea and Lidl’s Mediterranean Meatball Bake.
- 20 gardening sessions. 5 proper ones so far plus a couple of minutes mucking around with seeds.
- Explore 20 new places 1/20 - the cathedral at Bayeux.
- Attend 20 "shows" (concerts/plays/films/BBC recordings/exhibitions) 3/20 - Frank Skinner’s “Showbiz”. The News Quiz. The Troy exhibition at the British Museum.
- Do the 2020 Fashion On The Ration Challenge and keep within the coupon count. 33/66 coupons used. These are listed in the sidebar on the right.
- Phone family/friends to chat 20 times (I'm hopeless on the phone). 10/20.
- Lose 20lbs. 8/20. (To be honest, I’m just glad I haven’t put any weight on given the “Covid Calories” everyone is eating.)
- Mend 20 items of clothing (yes, that includes sewing on buttons and taking up hems) 3/20 - hemmed trousers from a suit purchased in 2018 (I’d only worn the skirt and jacket, not the trousers). Mended the pockets of a different suit jacket, bringing that suit back into rotation. Repaired the pockets on DH’s shorts.
- Declutter 20 items.
- Run 20 miles (but not all at once)
- Save 20 x £20 out of my “allowance”(£400) £240/£400
- Make 20 site visits for work, earning mileage 20 times (it goes to the car fund). 29/20.
- Write 20 blog posts. 20/20
- Log 10,000 steps on my Fitbit on 20 or more days (harder to do than it sounds). 11/20: 11.1.20 10505 steps, 22.2.20 10603 steps, 7.3.20 13527 steps, 21.4.20 10524 steps, 3.5.20 11,196 steps, 4.5.20 13,956 steps, 17.5.20 14,066 steps, 18.5.20 15,046 steps, 19.5.20 11,567 steps, 30.5.10 10,079 steps, 31.5.20 11,160 steps.
Have a party in the summer and invite at least 20 friends.Do singing exercises for 20 weeks to rebuild my voice. 1/20.- Watch at least 20 programs that have been on the DVR since 2018. 9/20.
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Recipe Tuesday: Carrot Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a loaf pan with non-stick baking parchment.
- In the food processor, combine the oil, eggs and carrots. Process until the carrot is chopped up small.
- Meanwhile, measure out all your remaining ingredients. (You can put them all into the one bowl, if you want.)
- Add all the other ingredients, in one go, to the food processor and process until combined. You should have a slightly lumpy batter.
- Pour into your lined loaf pan and bake at 180c for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Once cooked, remove from the loaf pan and cool on a cake rack. When cool, you can ice it if you want. (I don’t. I’m not a huge fan of icing.)