Camping Transit, Levis, Quebec, Canada (Quebec City)
There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. ~ Proverbs 6:16-19
Today, I took a much needed day off. Sort of. I sent Blaine out exploring on the bike trail and I stayed home. He was gone about 4-5 hours and during that time, I did laundry – – – for hours. There was a lot, and the dryers here are evidently set permanently on low. I guess that’s one way for them to make some extra money. . .
Anyway, once they were finally dry, I took them home to fold and some needed ironing, and a few needed mending, and I did all that while watching the movie, “Yentl”. If you’ve not seen it, I highly recommend it.
There were other things I’d planned on doing besides laundry. I needed to make banana muffins with the bananas I’d been keeping in the freezer, taking up space for more important things, menu planning, straightening, correspondence, and of course working on the blog. I did none of those things during the time Blaine was gone.
I did, however, get the muffins baked after he returned home.
I enjoyed my day off though, even if I didn’t do much of anything except laundry.
I have no commentary about his absence. He didn’t provide anything except a few pictures, and a comment about how the roller-bladers passed him by as they zoomed down the bike trail.
They’re probably staring because they don’t understand English. : )
The far right is the walking trail.
The left, with the yellow dotted line like a road, is the bike path.
Two lanes for two directions. Very nice path!
It’s the white blob across the river.
Not sure why they’d paint the same mural on both. . .
Strange. We thought they went all the way to the Atlantic and on to parts unknown.
BANANA CRUMB MUFFINS
1 ½ C. flour
1 t. baking soda
1 t. baking powder
½ t. salt
3 large ripe bananas, mashed
¾ C. sugar
1 egg
1/3 C. butter, melted
TOPPING:
1/3 C. packed brown sugar
1 T. flour
¼ – ½ t. cinnamon
1 T. butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl combine dry ingredients for muffins. Combine bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Mix well. Stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups ¾ full. Combine brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Work in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over the muffin batter in the cups. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.
Makes 12
HINT: You can also make this into bread by using a loaf pan and baking 45 minutes to 1 hour. To get ripe bananas, I always use thawed leftover bananas I’ve put in the freezer. It’s kinda gross when they thaw, but they make great muffins/bread! FYI – Don’t use butter to grease the pan. It will burn.