I made this over the weekend and was very pleased with it. To reduce the dairy I used 40 grams of coconut oil instead of butter, and I reduced the sugar. Thanks for the recipe - it's a keeper!

Is the roomba "free-ranging" or does one have to set parameters? A free-ranging floor cleaner could work for me! 

Loving this thread!

I don't post a lot here but talking of school milk took me down a memory trail...I went to small country primary school in central Victoria. The school was surrounded by irrigated paddocks and our milk was dropped off by the milk tanker driver and left in a table drain nearby. Two of us would be monitored to go and get the crate at morning recess and it was usually sitting in water so it never seemed to get hot and in winter the water usually had ice on it! Like everyone else I had a glass jar with a mixture of cocoa and sugar to add to the bottled milk...much more palatable!

And just to be confusing - there are regional variations in our lingo too, such as 'ports' for 'luggage'...I'm sure there are more.

Obbie...I hope your DH is ok.

Banana Muffins - GF/DF

2 cups of almonds (You can substitute a mix of hazlenuts and/or pecans with half the almonds)
1/2 cup of rice (or more nuts if preferred.)
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup of honey
2 large bananas
pinch of salt
teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon cardamon
teaspoon of Bi carb of soda (could add a teasppon of baking powder too)
optional - 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds or dairy free choc chips

Preheat oven to 180 degrees (175 fan forced)
Prepare muffin tins.

Grind nuts on Speed 7 for 10 seconds. Set aside.
Grind rice on Speed 9 for 1 minute, add to ground nuts. (Wash bowl - I don't bother!)
Place butterfly in bowl and beat eggs on Speed 4 for 3 minutes.
Remove butterfly.
Add banana chunks, vanilla, honey and mix Speed 4 for 10-15 seconds.
With thermi running on Speed 3, over about two minutes slowly add the dry ingredients (ground nuts, ground rice, salt, cinnamon, cardamon, bicarb.)
Add sunflower seeds or DF choc chips and mix briefly on Speed 1 or 2.
Pour into patty pans and cook in oven for about 18 minutes.

This recipe was given to me recently and I've just tweaked it for the thermi.

Yay! I did it...I finally went out and bought a Dyson animal vacuum cleaner to replace the expensive ('toad') machine I've been hating more and more every time I used it. Yay! No more expensive vacuum bags which won't go into the compost! (And are as rare as hen's teeth to buy anyway.) No more having to buy generic vacuum bags which leak dust and hair into the machine and filters! (Grrr!) I've just happily vacuumed my house, as well as inside the dreaded 'toad' (which I couldn't do with my hand held vacuum.)  And I like it!   

Dear Dyson vacuum cleaner owners...please...what are the advantages of the upright version compared with the barrel type? I've had my fairly new barrel vacuum cleaner (not a Dyson) up to my ears and am just now planning its early demise - I can't stand it any more - I variously call it slug or toad (and that's being really rude to slugs and toads!) I hate it so much! Stupid stupid machine! Urrgghh!

The cake came out of the oven and looks OK. I've got lots of raspberries to go with it and whipped cream. The brandy sounds good - for both the cake and me