Archive for October, 2009

Looking for a great banana bread recipe?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

bananabread…then try this recipe from Watirose. I made it once again recently and it goes down a treat.

Ingre­di­ents:

100g organic but­ter, soft­ened
175g Wait­rose Organic New Zealand For­est Honey
2 organic eggs, beaten
2 large ripe organic Fair­trade bananas, roughly chopped
½ tsp organic ground cin­na­mon
225g organic self-raising flour
50g pack organic wal­nut pieces
50g pack organic Brazil nuts, roughly chopped

Method

1. Pre­heat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 1kg loaf tin and line the base and ends with a long strip of bak­ing parchment.

2. Place the but­ter, honey, eggs, bananas, cin­na­mon and flour in a food proces­sor and blend until smooth. Alter­na­tively, beat by hand with a wooden spoon. Add the nuts, and pulse or mix until just combined.

3. Pour the mix­ture into the pre­pared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 35–40 min­utes until a skewer inserted into the cen­tre of the loaf comes out clean, and the bread is golden and well risen. Allow the loaf to cool in the tin for 10 min­utes then turn out. Remove the bak­ing parch­ment and cut into slices. Deli­cious served warm or cold, spread with butter.

Take the vow

Monday, October 5th, 2009

itakethevow-but-lgI went to see Deepak Chopra the other day, which I will blog another time, but I wanted to get this impor­tant mes­sage out first. He started a site last year which I would like to pro­mote. takethevow-badge-lrgOf  course I’m all up for world peace and the more of us that take a vow of non-violent thoughts, speech and actions, the closer  we will get to a peace­ful planet and a pow­er­fully pos­i­tive col­lec­tive con­scious­ness. Go on…take the vow.

Join me at a photographic studio opening

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

images by markoIf you’d like to hob knob with the Mayor and be a guest at the open­ing of Marko Dutkas por­trait stu­dio, please join me (where I’ll be doing some mas­sage of course) next week Tues­day, for some refresh­ments, enter­tain­ment and an oppor­tu­nity to gaze at Marko’s fine photography.

Wednes­day 7th Octo­ber 2009.
6pm until 9pm.
2 Dorset Close, Bath, BA2 3RF

Please RSVP to Marko Dutka.
01225 428881 or info@imagesbymarko.com
imagesbymarko.com

Marko says: “We are proud to announce the open­ing of our new por­trait stu­dio in Bath and to invite you to par­tic­i­pate in our open­ing evening. The stu­dio will offi­cially be opened by the Lord Mayor of Bath at 6.30pm.

As well as a show­case of Marko’s work we will also have a vari­ety of linked busi­nesses there on the evening to enter­tain and inform you.

At present these are:
Clau­dia Spoto of Clau­dia Lucia Hair & Makeup.
Bron­wen Grover of Bespoke Fin­ery.
Leora Sharp — Holis­tic Mas­sage and Body­work
Tracy Row­botham of Cher­rri Burelle Floristry.

Images By Marko will also be mak­ing a spe­cial Por­trait Pho­tog­ra­phy offer to all guests on the evening.”