Banana and Walnut loaf

Almost the New Year and time to welcome in 2020!!  Many thanks to all of you who have supported me throughout this tough old year, both in person and online.  I’m all focused on having a much less emotionally charged 2020 🙂

I hope you all had a wonderful break over the holiday season.  We had a very quiet Christmas here and actually made the most of upstairs to decorate.  Himself isn’t a big Christmas fan, in fact he doesn’t like it at all, so we keep all the carols, presents and decorations at bay for him.  Then it was just a quick overnighter at family and making the most of the great weather we have been having.

Themselves enjoying the river

This week is a quicky post as themselves are waiting to watch a family DVD and I thought I’d sneak out while they clean up after tea 🙂  The recipe tonight has been taken from The Liver Cleansing Diet by Sandra Cabot and is listed in there as Banana Muffins.  As part of my bid to resolve a few health issues I have been looking for a few more body nourishing recipes and came across this one in the recipe section of Sandra Cabot’s book.

I have tried this as muffins however with the GF flour thrown in they came out a little dry.  So I decided to double the recipe and reduce the flour a bit which seems to have worked out not too bad … even himself is eating it!  It does take a while to cook through as it is quite dense but once the top browns it is there.  If you find, once you cut into the loaf, that the middle isn’t quite there then it toasts up a treat 🙂

Banana and Walnut Loaf (GF, RSF and vegan)

4 ripe large bananas

2 Tablespoons of maple syrup

4 Tablespoons of Olive oil

2 Tablespoons LSA

4 teaspoons vanilla essence

2 Cups GF flour (I use Edmonds premixed)

1 Cup of chopped walnuts

• Mash Bananas and mix with the other wet ingredients.
• Add in the walnuts and flour and mix really well to ensure there are no flour lumps
• Transfer mixture into a baking paper lined loaf tin and cover with tin foil
• Bake at 180 C for 60-70 mins, taking off the tin foil about half way through baking.
• Allow to cool before enjoying with a cuppa

Hope this finds you enjoying the last moments of the old year and enthusiastically entering the new year.

Arohanui

Y

www.becominghealthy.co.nz

The year ahead

Have you got some new year’s resolutions set?  Have you stuck to them? Have you already reneged on them?

I’m a shocker for telling myself that tomorrow I’ll give up something or start something only to forget about it by half way through the day and then have to start all over again!  I figure that the important thing is to keep trying and slowly but surely the gap between my ‘resolutions’  and my ‘reneging’  is widening.

In the past few years I have also taken to letting go of new year’s resolutions per say and instead I have decided to have a list of things I’d like to do over the year.  This is simply a list of 100 things that I fancy having a go at or completing.  I know that sounds like a lot however they are not all big items …. I have put down to read a book four times and to write to a friend twice included in my 100 for example.

I only have 108 because it fitted my pages neatly :0

I don’t have a time frame apart from in the year and I simply read through them every week or so to remind myself of the things I wanted to do.  Amazingly just the simple act of writing down my future intentions and perusing them every now and again is enough to begin the ball rolling as in the first year I actually completed 80% of my ‘things to do’ without any pressure or goal setting.

Anyway … just thought I’d share what I’m up to and give a bit of food for thought.  Hope this finds you enjoying the new year wherever you are and whatever you are up to.

Arohanui

Y

www.becominghealthy.co.nz