Easter Monday

I stared at some chocolate bunnies at lunchtime, but I didn’t bring any home. I almost did though. I’ve eaten a lot of junk in the past couple of weeks: 2 large bags of chips, 3 loaves of chocolate cake, other stuff that I can’t recall at the moment.

I was thinking about making another chocolate loaf on the weekend, but then decided not to. Maybe the urge will strike again tonight. Ever since I started eating the cake I’ve been having sweet cravings after every meal. For the past few days I’ve been having pancakes with syrup as dessert. I also had a pancake with peanut butter and honey. That was quite good, it fulfilled the carb quotient and it was very filling and sugary, all at once.

I can’t remember where I got the chocolate cake recipe from, I just know that I cut the recipe in half and stuck it into a loaf pan, and it works great. I think it was the epicurious website because I remember reading reader comments about how much it rises and that various people’s oven bottoms were covered in burnt cake batter and they were not pleased.

I can’t remember the recipe. I’ll have to check my notes, but it’s something like this:

1 cup flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1 cup sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup oil

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix the dry. Mix liquids, add to dry. I use a fork to mix it all together. Then add 1/2 cup instant coffee and stir until mixed well. Add to an oiled loaf pan. Bake 350F for about 40-45 minutes, or until done.

I went running last week. The day after I had some bilateral knee pain when walking downhill, so I took it easy and didn’t run again until Friday. It was not a bad outing, but near the end my right knee was feeling a bit funny. The past couple days my right hip has been feeling weird too. Sleeping and sitting has been slightly uncomfortable, but not too bad. Something is just not right and I don’t know what it is. I guess I should be glad that things are not so bad that I know there’s definitely something wrong. At this point, I only know that there is probably something wrong.