Flapjacks with fresh cranberries

How can it be that a ten hour day at work can sometimes feel longer than a fifteen hour day? I’ve been doing a lot of running around lately- well, not running, exactly, since I sprained my ankle six weeks ago. My right leg tries to take off and my left foot just sort of drags behind trying to protect itself from any more pain I might inflict upon it. More pain that is, than standing on it and occasionally lugging food and props around on it for fifteen hours a day. Some days it just doesn’t want to bear it’s own weight. Why can’t it just get with the program? They say a team is only as strong as its weakest link and whilst there would be those that argue I does not make myself a team- I beg, politely, to differ.

So, that’s why things are slow around here- when I’m not limping around a set I’m at physical therapy or icing like crazy and it’s kind of taking it out of me. Lesson learnt. Repeat after me: I shall not play in leaves. E-V-E-R again. So with all the exhaustion of standing on one foot I thought I better make something energizing. Flapjacks are great on their own- this is based on my mum’s recipe which delivers chewy rich flapjacks every time. Being that it is the festive season I chose to throw in a handful of fresh cranberries and some toasted nuts. The intense tartness of the cranberries help to counteract some of the sweetness of the flapjacks- which I’m sure you getting enough of from foil wrapped Santas on the Christmas tree. We don’t have those on our tree, which I suspect is why there was a nibble taken from my flapjacks before I got a chance to take a picture- can’t say I blame Don the little mouse, it took me two days to get around to photographing. Like I said- things are moving slowly around here. Or perhaps it’s just so fast I can’t keep up it. Bloody ankle.

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Flapjacks with fresh cranberries