day #8

17-09-09 :

Does anyone have any idea how to (fastly...apparently fastly isn't a word. I'll use 'quickly") cure a sinus infection? This is just going way too far!

Currently drinking coffee and eating Nutella and bananas by the spoonful. It is 9:30am. Yes, I know it isn't good for me, but I'm 4000 miles away from home, and it's comforting. So THERE.

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I cleaned and did my laundry this morning. I picked up the boys from preschool and made lunch. Sandwiches. I had ham and cheese, the boys had peanut butter.

They are napping now, and I'm baking a cake.

The cake is chocolate cake batter (from scratch), and you put a 1/2 cup of plain yogurt in it...and then so you put half of the batter into the cake pan, and then separately, you mix a 1/2 cup of peanut butter with 2tbsp of brown sugar, and then you kind of dollop that into the cake batter in the pan, then you top it with the rest of the chocolate stuff. It looks really good. I didn't put icing on it or anything because it is for infant 3 year olds. You can also make them in cupcake form.

Chocolate Surprise Cake/Cupcakes:

Ingredients:

* 3/4 cup brown sugar

* 1/4 cup cooking oil (such as canola)

* 1 egg

* 1/4 cup cocoa

* 1 & 1/2 cup flour

* 1/2 tsp baking powder

* 1/2 tsp baking soda

* 1/2 cup boiling water

* 1/2 cup low fat yogurt

* 1/2 cup peanut butter

* 2 tbsp brown sugar

Directions:

*Mix brown sugar, oil and egg. Beat well. Combine flour, cocoa baking powder and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to wet. Add boiling water, and mix in. Mix in yogurt. Combine well.

* In separate bowl combine peanut butter and 2 tbsp of brown sugar.

*Spray a cake pan, or line muffin tins with cake cups. Fill with half of the chocolate cake batter. Divide the peanut butter mixture putting about 1/2 tsp dollops in random places in cake (or one in each cupcake). Cover with remaining batter.

*Bake at 350 degrees for 16-20 minutes.

If you're making cupcakes, it'll make approximately 16, or one delicious cake.

Frost it with whatever (i didn't even put icing on it, because the peanut butter is gooey).

~ in the words of Julia Child, "BON APPETIT"! ~

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For supper i sauteed some red peppers in onion, garlic and olive oil before I added the spaghetti sauce to it. It tasted really good. It smelled like home for about an hour. (it was nice :D )

I'm going to walk the boys to school tomorrow, and Gillian will pick them up. I've got language course tomorrow afternoon in Lunel. I spotted a candy store down the street from school, so maybe I'll stop in and purchase a treat...

Apparently, there is an IKEA here. I'd like to go, since I've never been to an IKEA...just for kicks.

OK

that's all for today.

Au revoir.

Laura <3

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