Just as a Saturday ought to be

Woke up a little too early for a weekend (8am) and popped down to quilting class with Mr. Much progress made, including me remembering to bring bean juice for my cup of tea.

Then we descended into the inferno (see Penrith) to buy veges and essentials $60 for 2 people for a week. I congratulate myself heartily on my amazing thrift and settle into slightly over-heated smug self-satisfaction.

We drop in briefly to Mr's parents and pick up the wedding invitations, all printed and ready to be hand-decorated by yours truly. I am pleased with them.

Home.

The cottage is cool and relaxing and I am moved by the need to make date loaf. I have been having weird cake cravings for a week, so this seems a god solution. Lydgate is coming up tomorrow too and it never hurts to have extra yummies to fill the neverending pit that he calls a digestive system:-)

Mum's Date Loaf

1 cup dates

1/2cup walnuts/pecans

1 tsp sodium bicarbonate

1 cup boiling water

6 ozs (170g) Self-raising flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 Tbsp Lit Nuttelex

Pinch salt

(1) Place dates, sugar, walnuts, nuttelex, sodi bic & salt into a bowl and add Boiling water

(2) Allow to stand until mixture is cool

(3) add siften flour and sugar and mix well

(4) Pour into a greased and lined loaf tin and bake at 180 degress for 30-35 minutes.

Serve warm with nuttelex to spread.

Having achieved this, the next step was to take my vegan fetta out of its brine and refill the jar with oil, herbs, chilli and garlic cloves.

Now, culinary fervour somewhat abated, one settles down to addressing all invitations with deep red calligraphy. One was also supposed to do all the gilt today, but that will be left until tomorrow.
Whip up fried brown rice with chilli, garlic and roasted peanuts for dinner and pour a glass of chilled chardonnay.
Settle with rice and wine in front of silly Disney children's movie and allow brain to become quite fuzzy around the edges.
Climb into soft bed with electric blanket and sleep soundly with no worries because your family and tricksy friends are taking care of everything with serious panache and aplomb (and apalling secrecy).
Love everybody unconditionally and look forward to more of same tomorrow.