December 18, 2018
While you’re totally, 100% concentrated on the Christmas meals, remember, that it will not last forever, to be exact it will last only 3 days. What will happen then? You will be exhausted out of eating too much, but with time hungry again. You can start with this awesome toast idea. It is delicious, it is light and it comes from my friend’s cookbook, at least the Brussels sprouts part. It will be a good preparation for our new year resolutions, because lets be honest here - we are all guilty of dreaming to be a more healthier version of ourselves next year. And most of us fail… life I guess. But what if we start earlier with a small preparations? You have all the time from 27th till 31st!
Recipe comes from Samar Khanafer book “Szafran, mięta I kardamon”.
You will need (for 2-3 toasts):
- 400g brussels sprouts
- 2-3 slices of bread
- ½ small red onion, sliced
- 2 oranges
- ½ cup almond flakes
- 1 tsp dried colander
- ½ handful fresh colander
- Pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Heat your oven to 200*C (400*F).
Grate zest from one orange and squeeze juice from half of it. Mix it with the olive oil and all the spices.
Clean the brussels sprouts and cut in half. Place them on a baking tray covered with a paper and pour the orange sauce over.
Bake for about 5 minutes, open the over to sprinkle sprouts with the almond flakes and the onion, mix it a bit and bake for another 5 minutes.
Meantime toast the bread slices. I like to do it on a pan with a lot of butter.
Cut the rest of oranges, cut the colander and mix with the sprouts.
Place sprouts on a hot toast and enjoy!
Best, Marta
November 28, 2018
I am sitting on a bed in a hotel room in Taiwan while I am writing this blog post. Tomasz and Mia are in a kid’s room and this is something I would never visualise 4 years ago. Parenthood does change our lives. This recipe was ready for months now. I have so many posts, so many breakfasts to share and they are all on my computer. To be honest, I have no idea why it took me so long to start sharing them. I could explain myself with being tired and overworked and that I wanted to spend more time with Mia than in front of my computer. But to be honest, I think I just really needed a break. Now I have another dilemma and something to be slightly scared of - will I manage to go back to blogging as I used to? Cross you fingers for this one, please.
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November 19, 2018
There are things you need and you don’t even realise it. I am a mom of only 1 kid (huge respect to all moms who have more than one) and it seems like I have a super relaxed life. She is a fairly easy kid, not much drama, unless we don’t pack her pink dress. Bad eater lately, but I trick her with smoothies which taste like banana, but include spinach, avocado and kale. I manage. I also manage my job, as it’s freelance, so I’m my own boss (it may sound easy, but when you’re a freelancer you realise that you work 24/7). I can juggle. In the past 4 years of Mia’s life (ok, 4 will be in 3 weeks time), I did a lot of self improvement in the category of juggling my life and work. I plan, I try to be focused, I write things down. I use each spare minute to make lists or write things for blog or look for things for articles and so on and so on. Sometimes when you meet me on a street, I am so focused on what I am supposed to do, on trying to figure out what will be the best set up for pictures or what magical ingredient I am missing, that I may act slightly like a lunatic :D Again, life.
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November 11, 2018
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October was a true Italian month for me. Together with Tomasz and Mia we spent the whole month travelling around Italy and eating as much as possible. You may think that I know a lot by now, but to be honest, I have a feeling that I need at least an additional 5 years to learn just “enough” to be satisfied.
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October 29, 2018
Sometimes the time comes to say stop. At least for a moment. We were walking in Verona under a crying sky and I said to Tomasz that I want to go back home. He looked at me and answered “let’s go back now”. We had last pasta and a serious conversation with Mia if she would like to go back home. She told us that she want’s to go back to kindergarten to her friends and teachers (she loves them), she also wants to visit grandparents and she wants a princess costume. We all agreed on her conditions and one hour later we were sitting in a car and driving to Berlin. That was on Saturday Afternoon, about 4pm. When we crossed the border with Austria a strange thing started to happen - the snow storm paralysed roads. It was like Italy didn’t want us to leave. We have all year tires, so “bu haha” weather. What we did not foresee was a snow machine pushing tones of snow on our car from a highway road just above us. Nothing happen at all to the car, the sound was crazy scary, but hey, it happened. When we were crossing the Austria-German border, the nice policeman asked us where are our registration plates. So this is what happened - the wet, heavy snow took over our registration plates. As you can see each country wanted us to stay. But we said “no, we’re going back!”. Also, the police told us that we can drive to Berlin without the front plate and we do listen to authorities. At 4 am on Sunday I ended up with Mia in our bed and Tomasz at the police station registering our unusual problem. Life is a tricky thing.
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October 03, 2018
Living in a van and travelling around the world is a beautiful adventure, but it also influences you. I have a feeling that the past months on the road improved my life and this is how:
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August 15, 2018
When in home, I have a whole kitchen for myself. It has about 10m2! Can you imagine :D Of course you can. But when you got used to living in a van which is 6m long and your kitchen is 1 x 0,5m big, you forget about the cooking comfort. Each time I go through the same steps in travelling in a van.
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July 26, 2018
It was a very unexpected travel. We were supposed to be in Georgia, but due to some car issues we had to go back to Austria. And from Austria there’s only one border to Slovenia. I also got some messages that I should go to Slovenia, so except going back 1200km to Bucharest, we changed our plans.
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July 21, 2018
Romania is like a different world. World of beautiful lands, kind and helpful people, delicious food. It’s also a land of surprises. We were supposed to be there way longer, but life made it short. We’ll be back for more, as once you come to Romania, you cannot forget it.
And yes, we did think about vampires a lot
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July 12, 2018
We made it to England! It happened so fast, that yesterday evening we were both sitting in a van at night and we bought said it loud - it is strange that we are here. Why? Because yesterday we were in France in a sun, then we booked the euro tunnel online and within 30 minutes I was really trying to focus hard to drive in England (everything opposite). One day we fell asleep on the French coast, the second on English. Life is a funny and very, very good thing.
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