baking for UUFA

Yesterday I ran the vacuum cleaner while Captain and Vanessa were out and made some banana muffins and mocha cupcakes, meant to be for the UUFA choir bake sale Sunday. The cupcakes did not turn out very pretty, so we will have to eat most of them ourselves. Warm with vanilla ice cream, they were so good last night I had a second (small) one. I made 24 and I put 8 of the prettiest aside to freeze for Sunday, as well as most of the banana muffins. When looking for things to make for a bake sale, I take into account what ingredients I have on hand. Then I try to compare the amount of butter in the recipes, thinking about how expensive the items I am donating are. At the moment, we have lots of eggs. We got 2 dozen from our meat CSA and one dozen from our neighbor, in addition to what we already had bought, so that is not a limiting factor. Tomorrow is grocery shopping day and I will replenish the flour and other supplies, but don't want to make a special trip before then.

I did a little work in the garden, but was cautious about straining my back. I finally decided I should give the racquetball a try and it went pretty well. My back is sore this morning, but i have the impression that sitting at the computer is probably worse for it than cooking, gardening, or racquetball.