Still on catch-up, lots of recent recipes to upload and I will admit I am struggling to move myself back into the productive mindset that I so desperately need to achieve to survive giving my job up on January 1st this year to achieve my dream of writing a book and trying to support myself instead of returning to the corporate world of marketing.

I’m grateful, so so grateful for the support from people via my Facebook & YouTube memberships (and tips from Kofi) which add a couple of hundred pounds to my monthly coffers (can you believe that! I think it is amazing that one can earn money by doing what one loves!!!) and between monetization on Facebook and YouTube from content we add another £100 per month. Of course this all depends on actually creating content hence me trying to move forward into the productive mindset again. I REALLY REALLY needed to take time for myself when Mum was ill and after she passed so in many ways I am grateful that I no longer had a job working for someone else as this helped me tremendously during this time.

This morning I’ve booked myself into a local co-working space to help me a) focus on working b) get me out of the house so I see other humans and am in a different environment. The space has an adjustable office desk, two monitors and as much coffee and tea as I want so for £15 for 4 hours I can’t complain. It certainly helps at the moment, once every week or two, to kickstart consistency and productivity.

But lets get back to cooking and baking 1940s style! I’m still mostly snacking with the occasional stew or vegetably dinner my daughter makes me but am working my way back to my 3-4 meals per day. My appetite still isn’t great but that doesn’t mean I’m losing weight as one has to remember that I have always eaten whether I am hungry or not so sandwich snacks or homemade oatcakes definitely keep the calories up and give me some comfort. Saying that, I would like to return to proper meals and weight loss soon, working on it!

Carrot pancakes are easy to make, quite dense, and as with most foods I re-create, perfectly acceptable and certainly not something to turn your nose up at when you are living on rations or trying to make ends meet!

I love trying out recipes from wartime recipe books regardless of what the outcome is!

Thank you again for all your support and to Dawn, Kate and Holly at our Facebook group (who haven’t seen me around for ages – thank you xxx)…. please pop along and say hello to them and to the other 17K members!

Carrot Pancakes Ingredients

4 tablespoons of flour
3 tablespons finely grated carrot
tsp of sugar and pinch of salt
milk to bind
fat to fry

Method

Mix the flour with the salt and sugar and add the milk to make a nice thick batter. Add in the grated carrot and mix. Heat the fat until smoking hot in the pan then lower the heat a little. Pour in 1/2 of the mixture to make a medium-sized pancake. Cook until browned and then turn over and repeat. Serve with sugar, jam, golden syrup or lemon juice (if available!)

Makes a couple of pancakes!