Washing car

Helping daddy to wash his car is so much fun.

Nuts in Space

Recently we read this book called Nuts in Space by Elys Dolan. The book is almost Star Trek meets Star Wars ie it has a crew led by Commander Moose and one of their adventure was at the "Death Banana" (Death Star in Star Wars) The crew went for an adventure of finding the legendary nuts. The crew found the nuts and now they need to bring the nuts home and the journey home couldn't be more wrong. Each page is illustrated with details and it's hard not to laugh when you read the contents.




As both Noel and Abel are quite well versed with the 'technicality' of Star Wars they couldn't help but find the similarities and they found it amusing and entertaining.

As for me, even though the book is found in children's section, I don't see why an adult won't find it entertaining.

Persimmon loaf

Last night I decided to be adventurous and made a persimmon loaf. I had two persimmons sitting in the fruit basket waiting to be eaten.  So I decided to google for some recipe ideas.
This is the one I decided to use.  I did reduced the amount of sugar from the recipe.  Without much ado, here's the recipe:

Note: You will need 2 loaf tins or 1 loaf tin and 2 mini loaf tin. 

 

 

Ingredients

1 cup persimmon pulp (I used one big persimmon and was able to get 1 cup of the pulp)

2 tsp baking soda

3 cups sugar (I only used 2 and 2/3 cups)

1 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 1/2 tsp salt

2/3 cup water

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2- 8 1/2x4 1/2 loaf pans.

2.  In a small bowl, stir together the persimmon pulp and baking soda. Let stand 5 minutes to thicken

     the pulp.

3.  In a medium bowl, combine sugar, oil, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Blend until smooth. Mix

     in persimmon pulp and water alternately with flour. Fold in nuts. Divide batter into the prepared pans, filling each 2/3 full.

4.  Bake for 1 hour in preheated oven or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 min. before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. 

Below is the pic of both loaves.

p/s: I brought the bigger loaf to work to share for morning tea.  Verdict: The slices were nearly all gone so I would say this recipe is a keeper.