It’s not so easy to eat healthily when you’re out on the road, there are so many things to tempt you when you stop for fuel – mega-size hot sausage rolls, double packs of Mars bars, iced buns, the list goes on… So in an attempt to keep us more or less on the straight and narrow, I make my reasonably healthy flapjacks – reasonably healthy because, instead of using butter, I use olive spread and before you say ugh, there’s very little difference in taste but you have a nice smug feeling that you’re not taking on so much cholesterol! So here goes with my recipe for flapjacks.
Using a large saucepan, gently melt 150g of olive spread (Bertolli or supermarket own-brand), 150g of Demerara sugar and one large tablespoon of golden syrup. Once melted mix well and add 275g of coarse porage oats (I use Scott’s Old-Fashioned Porage Oats) and stir to combine. At this stage I throw in a good quantity of dried cranberries but you can leave the mixture as it is or add nuts, glace cherries or your own preferred dried fruit. Having given the flapjack mixture a final stir, tip it into a baking tin – my 22x22cms non-stick tray-bake tin is ideal – and press the oat mixture evenly across the base of the tin using the back of a metal spoon. Bake in a pre-heated oven (190C / 375F / Gas Mark 5) for 25 minutes. After the 25 minutes I turn the oven off and leave the tin of flapjack in the oven for a further 25 minutes to dry out a little. Once removed from the oven, score into pieces to suit your appetite (!) and allow to cool completely before removing from the tin.
Many of you who’ve seen our flagship vehicle recently may have noticed that the signwriting was starting to look a bit worn. The van is only two years old but unfortunately the quality of the original signwriting seems to have been fairly poor. Anyway, earlier this week I took my van along to Bel Signs in Crawley and a very helpful young man called Darren spent most of the day replacing all the signwriting. I have to say that the quality of his work is brilliant, and more surprisingly he actually charged us less than we were charged two years ago by the people who did the job originally. This is also taking into account the fact that Darren had to take all the old signwriting off the van before he started – which took him several hours.
So if anyone wants any signwriting done, whether it’s a vehicle or a shop front, have a look at Bel Signs. I feel like I’m driving around in a new van now!
by Frank on June 10, 2010
One of the luxuries Gill and I treat ourselves to every few weeks is a reflexology treatment. We visit a lady called Georgina who lives between Godstone and Bletchingley. I went along last night and my feet felt wonderful afterwards. I am always amazed how George (as we call her) can identify what problems I’m experiencing, such as a bad back, just from massaging my feet. The treatment will also help to ease most other bodily ailments.
I must admit that before my first visit I was somewhat sceptical and also worried that having ticklish feet would be a problem. I needn’t have worried!
My feet still feel wonderfully relaxed today and I’m already looking forward to my next visit. If you feel you’d like to give it a try let me know and I’ll happily pass over George’s details.
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