Why does food make you feel so tired? Yesterday we had home grown ham and vegetables with all the trimmings. Piles of delicious food. Cold and gray outside with constant snow flurries but warm and happy on the inside in more ways than one. However we are not done yet. 
One more dinner party, this time out here at the Farmy.
I am going to roast a couple of plump pasture raised chickens. Last night I made a special loaf of herb bread for the stuffing. It is a roast dinner, (my favourite) easy and very forgiving and VERY tasty with lots of gravy seasoned with Marmite.
Yesterday I made The cranberry walnut apple cake again (It was VERY moist) and we ate it with merinques and whipped cream. No photo after all that. We suddenly ran out of time and everything was shoved into the car and whisked into town to The Matriarch’s house.
This is adapted from The Moosewood Book.
Cranberry Walnut Apple Cake
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar and 1/2 cup vegetable oil
Blend.
add 2 eggs and 1 tsp vanilla
Mix.
….
In separate bowl.
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tsp salt
stir then add
2 cups grated apple, 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
1/2 pound fresh or frozen (thawed) cranberries
the zest of a lemon
Toss, coating fruit in flour mixture.
Add to butter mixture, stir – then into baking tin and bake at 350 for 50 -60 minutes. Or until the cake is coming away from the sides of the tin and firm to the touch.
It really is a very good cake. 
Good morning. Today I am making a carrot cake for Sheila. I will tell you why tomorrow. It is the sweetest surprise.
Much love
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
47 responses to “Eating wears me out!”
The cake sounds great. I’ll have to try it. And with oil instead of butter, we can all pretend it’s healthy. Thanks.
though I do love butter, in the milking season I make it, but local oils make a nice change.. hope you enjoy it!