Maked.

Over the weekend, Coffee got a chance to make some of the homemade granola bars.

There are exactly three two remaining in the fridge.

In addition to using a full cup of melted margarine (in place of butter) we’ve been working to tweak the recipe slightly – and we now know that whole wheat flour is perfectly good (instead of white), that brown rice syrup is perfectly good (instead of honey) and that raisins work just as well as chocolate chips.

Unless you’re a kid, of course, and then that whole “raisin” thing is just sheer stupidity because, like, who would want RAISINS when you could have CHOCOLATE CHIPS?!

We also spent some time making homemade laundry soap (melon scented!) using recipe #1 on that link.

On first use it seems to work very well indeed. I’ll get back to you with final conclusions when I’ve used it to wash something other than towels.

If it works well it’s going to save a LOT of money and, more importantly, be considerably more environmentally-friendly than the majority of laundry detergents out there. Huzzah!

On Saturday night Coffee and I made (homemade) ulta-hot and ultra-spicy buffalo wings to eat while we watched UFC. I am so glad that I bought my Dutch Oven when I did and for the price that I did – that thing comes in handy more often than I expected.

And on Sunday we made homemade carrot and ginger soup (*drool*) and some whole wheat soda bread. (Recipes on request, of course). Both turned out well but I’m not sure I’d make the bread again any time soon – I only tried it because I had waited too long to start a batch of bread in the machine and needed something that didn’t require rising time.

Now it’s Monday and the kids are back to school and I’m freshly showered and about to head out to pick up Maymo.

This afternoon I’m going to do a bit more laundry, clean the rat cage, and try to re-fill my iPod. Maymo and I are gonna’ rock around the house a bit..