One of advantages of temporarily living in California is an unlimited access to California oranges. Since 6 weeks T, squeezed pounds of them and I’m trying to add it to almost each meal. As you all know oranges contain a large dose of vitamin C, so it’s all about health, not this amazing juicy and refreshing taste.
Sometimes I have this “mornings” when I don’t have time for anything. And it does not matter that I get up early, it’s just one of those times. Of course a lack of coffee could be an explanation (I’m a half-a-lunatic without it), but I know better than to fight with it.
One week ago I kept complaining about a lack of snow. You should look outside my window today, it’s totally white and it keeps coming. What scares me is that I like to play in snow too much, and it’s hard to concentrate on what’s important. And there’s plenty to do. I need to pack, think of the way of saying goodbye to Rysiek and make a list of must see/go/do places in San Francisco. Thank you so much for all your tips. I write everything down and can’t wait to check them out.
I did approach the topic few times, 5 to be honest, each of them with a different recipe, each of times I failed. I must say that brioche is one of the most difficult cakes / breads that I’ve ever baked. Since my attempts left me not in the best mood, I made myself a promise the one day I’ll succeed. I had to wait a few months (seriously, I had to), but the time for another attempt came. I decided to follow a professional - Julia of “Baking with Julia”.
I know that there’s a season for strawberries and you’ve already seen like 100s of recipes. But check out this one. I’ve found it on this My New Roots blog and I felt in love with it. I love stravberries but usually have them with sugar. This one are spicy, so spicy and delicious. I ate them with my morning poridge, and then finished it with a spoon. I ate everything I made. It was that good.
I have this periods in my life when I decide to be super extra healthy, stop eating sugar (I love you!) and to concentrate on a good stuff. I know I should do it all the time, but life is not perfect and nor am I :) That’s why my today breakfast was all about a carrot juice. In a past I used to be kind of addicted to it, than I had a lond break (no juice squeezer around) and now the time for a come back came. Obviously I’ve started to read how healthy and beautiful I’ll become after dinking it. And apparently I will! Not to go into too many details:
Birds are singing, sun is shining and my suitcase is finally unpacked. I’m staying in a temporary apartment (OMG it’s so beautiful), so all my pots, bowls, plates, and even a cutlery is packed in boxes that create a tower around 15 km away from me. This state doesn’t bother me at all. I’ve already discovered small stores with amazing kitchen stuff, and it’s a great occasion to do some shopping ;) But for now my main task is to relax. The past weeks were full of packing, unpacking, goodbyes, hellos, organizing, and all the rest. So now the time for a proper rest came.
The contents of my kitchen is buried in boxes, matting, carefully described and I’m not going to unpack it, unless it’s in Berlin ( it took me three days to hide the apartment into boxes). The only things left were blender, a plate and a knife. We had to eat something, so Ive started to think about something easy and fun, and I reminded myself about a recipe for pesto from Agata’s blog, which does not require too many dishes and equipments. Anne, who helped us to sort clothes, mostly by laughing at them (so far I had no heart to get rid of my jacket purchased 3 years ago in China or shirt from Bolivia), accepted we’ve started the preparations. Ok, it sounds like a big cooking. The whole truth is that one was standing in front of the blender, and the other was watching the first one.
Greetings from Zakopane! It’s simply amazing over here and I can see that spring took over the place. It’s very warm, everything around is growing, birds are singing, stream swims somewhere fast and everything makes me happy. I’ve already eaten about 1 kg of Oscypki, and will upload a recipe soon, but for now a recipe for biscuits with parmesan cheese that I baked for Tomasz before I left. I hope he misses me a lot ;)
I’m about to pack for a longer holiday, and it’s so hard. I’ve been trying to do it during the weekend, but 2,5 day is not enough to make myself do it. Most probably I’ll throw a couple of clothes 5 minutes before I left apartment.
