After yesterday’s quiet day, I woke up headache free and raring to go! The baking went well and I even managed to stay on top of the dishes and the kitchen. If you head into my kitchen right now, the dishwasher is full, benches wiped, and only a few things in the sink. Amazing! Pity it doesn’t look like that every day, lol!

I made this Banana Cake with a twist - I used my normal recipe, but added cocoa to half of the mix and poured it into the cake tin. Then I added some chocolate chips to the rest of the mix and poured it on top. It made this fun pattern and the kids just loved it.

Since the chocolate chips were out, I made chocolate chip cookies - always a hit. I only baked half of them, rolled the rest of the dough in between some foil, and put it in the freezer. Now I can just cut off enough to fill a tray if I get unexpected visitors, or when we run out of goodies in the pantry.

I also made a chocolate cake for the freezer so that later in the week when the weather hits the high 30’s (C, not F!) I don’t need to do any baking. The roast lamb I had planned for today was absolutely yummy and there is some left for cold meat - I thought for a moment there it was all going to disappear, it was so popular!

In between baking, I muddled around the house today. I did a few of those little chores that needed doing in the kitchen, like filling the salt shakers, making garlic salt, and filling the flour shaker that I use while kneading bread or other dough. Some of these things, like making the garlic salt, I had been meaning to do for so long now.

This is my simple recipe for garlic salt:

6 tablespoons salt

2 tablespoons garlic powder

1 tablespoon rice flour

Mix it all together….. I use this to flavor nearly everything! LOL! We love garlic! It is better when you dry the garlic yourself and make it into powder. I have some powder from the shop, so I will use that up first. Hopefully once I grow my own garlic I can dry some and keep it aside for when the store bought stuff runs out.

I also tackled the master bedroom today. Ok, I know, it wasn’t on my “must do” list. Well, I just got sick of it being such a mess. All the folded washing got put away. I dragged some shelves in from the shed and filled them with my sewing stuff - fabric, notions, & UFO’s. It is so much nicer to walk in there and have it looking tidy.

Tomorrow I will try to set up my sewing machine and do a bit of sewing. I have some ironing to do as well, but the baking and cooking is all done.

Not all my days run this smoothly, but I am certainly thankful when they do!