These days without work and without Jamie, without surfing and without travelling, without, without, without.... It's not quite like that. Days are full of richness - I breath, I am alive, alive, alive. How can I be anything but satisfied? And yet, the heart has longings at the same time as being content. It's all in the dualities. You can grief, and have a heart full of love. You can be full, but hungry at the same time, full of desire. You can miss someone with all your heart, and realise you have forgotton them at the same time.
I'm an early riser. I love the mornings. Jamie makes us a coffee, we snuggle, and have a shower. We have breakfast together, I hang out washing, feed the sourdough, check the chickens for eggs before the crows come a-cawin'. Thanks @dandays for the hard egg tip - I had four eggs today, which is the most I've had since we got back last weekend. They're sitting on the windowsill like trophies.
By 10, I am trying not to look at the surf cam. I can't look at the ocean if I can't slip between her folds. Rest, I'm told, fucking rest. Instead I take the compost out, drag a small fallen branch over to the fire, sit on a rubber mat and push beetroot seedlings into the earth. My hip complains. I am not ignoring it, but I'm also trying to pay it no mind. I don't want to pathologise.
By 11, I am wondering if it will make things a little better to have something tangible to suggest Today Is A Day Where I Have Done Something.
Lying on couch with an ice pack is for woman with tendonopathy, but that is not me. I text Mum for her recipe for Anzac biscuits. Have you heard of them? Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I - they appear at bake sales and we learn to make them at school. Apparently they were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily. Oats, golden syrup, butter - simple, good biscuits. Sometimes they're called butter oat snaps.
Mums variation is delicious. Sometimes they spread into hard, circular rounds, sometimes they're small. I don't know enough about baking to guess why, but they are good either way, and cheap. I make two batches, and eat too many.
On the couch, with an ice pack on my hip.
Oat Cookies
1cup (80g) rolled oats
1cup (140g) plain flour ( whole meal works well)
3/4 cup (60g) coconut
3/4 cup (160g) sugar
125g butter, melted
2 tablespoons (42g) honey (or Golden syrup)
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
Combine dry ingredients. Mix in melted butter, honey, water and bicarbonate soda. Form spoonful of mixture into balls, flattened into biscuit shape. Place on greased or baking paper lined trays and bake for 10 mins 200 c. (Too hot for my oven - 180oC - check after 8 minutes).
Yum @riverflows, Anzac cookies are one of my favourites; crispy crunchy, just what I need now! We call them Crunchie Biscuits. I've been lazy of late and mostly make the old stand Crunchies that one cuts into squares.
Your cookies look so good!
I may sound like an old hag, but please listen to your body...says she who'd rather grin and bear it than sit idle... Do the ice packs and whatever other healing techniques you find. It's a lesson in patience perhaps <3
I'm the most impatient person... It's really hard! I've been doing my exercises religiously and trying best not to get depressed.
Beautiful, delicious cookies.😊 Good afternoon.
Feel better, love.
Going out to buy oats. Once again, I shall hold you responsible for when jeans no longer fit. But these sound waaay too good to pass up. Besides, it's oats and honey. That's healthy, right? :)
LE: thank you. These are delicious.
Yay!!! Now that was quick... While I was asleep! They look good! Again, harem pants 🤣
Mmmhmmm, Anzac biscuits! I looove them! When I left Australia after three years I forgot to bring with me a recipe so I emailed a friend to share hers with me so I could make them back home in Germany.
We'll be going over to friends for a D&D afternoon and I was contemplating making Sourdough,sourcream coffee cake, now there's a contender: Anzac biscuits!
edit: Turns out the recipes are almost 100 % identical, figures - there's only one Anzac biscuit - LOL. Also, they're in the oven now...
Brilliant! I think some people don't make them with coconut. How did they turn out?
They turned out great and yummy. Everyone loved them. I wish I could make a chewy version of them instead of crispy...
I don't know how baking works... Sometimes mine are chewy sometimes crispy. @lizelle might know?
Hi @oceanbee and River, one can turn this batter into chewy crunchie squares by pressing into a rectangular pan with fingertips, (thickness approx 20cm) bake 15-20min till light-brown, cut into squares while still hot. My recipe is similar, and I sometimes do that when lazy. It's also super yummy if you want it chewy for a change.
So, basically, you're saying that the trick is to keep the batter in the oven thicker. Hmm, I might give it try. Thank you.
This is a similar recipe, but I added seeds. If you form balls to make cookies, they will still spread even if it's thicker, and will still be crispy.
Ooh nice! I like to try recipes from other places, thanks for that, I've bookmarked your post to later try this out together with my daughter, she likes baking things! I hope you recover soon!
Let me know if you try it!
l like it that you had four eggs today.
The Anzac cookies has served great purpose over the years, especially as wife's used to sent it to their husbands abroad, above all, it's great you enjoy it with ice pack, continue to have a good time 🥰🙏
From its appearance, this cake looks very delicious.
that one looks yummy, must try that one soon😉
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Oh didn't you know that cookies with oatmeal and butter are called Anzac, what I do know is that they are delicious, I have tried this kind of cookies and they are addictive.
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